Course Levels and Duration
We can provide training on all versions of Microsoft PowerPoint at Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced levels. All courses are 1 day in duration, delivered onsite at your own offices from 10am – 4pm.
PowerPoint Foundation
This session is aimed at those with limited experience of PowerPoint, but with general experience of MS Office.
- Exploring the PowerPoint ribbon menus
- Working with PowerPoint views: normal, outline, slide sorter, reading view
- Understanding slide content types and their uses
- Title slides
- Content slides
- Creating a simple text slide
- Formatting slides
- Formatting text size, colour & styles
- Formatting slide backgrounds
- Deleting and reordering slides
- Creating slide notes
- Adding headers & footers
PowerPoint Intermediate
This session is aimed at those already using PowerPoint and can create basic slide presentations.
- Working with the PowerPoint Slide Master
- Understanding slide masters
- Creating custom slide masters
- Styling presentations using the slide master
- Inserting images
- Adding photos & resizing
- Adding graphic artwork, logos etc.
- Adding slide transitions
- Understanding transition types & their application
- Changing animation effects
- Creating bullet point animations
- Animation uses and application
- Adding animations to text / bullet points
- Changing animation effects
PowerPoint Advanced
This session is aimed at those with good experience of PowerPoint and wish to utilise the more advanced features of the application.
- Adding multimedia
- Inserting videos from files
- Linking to online content
- Adding sound files
- Displaying information with SmartArt
- Exploring SmartArt types
- Applying and editing SmartArt
- Linking Excel spreadsheet data
- Embedding spreadsheets
- Updating data dynamically
- Working with graphs & charts
- Creating charts in PowerPoint
- Embedding linked charts from Excel spreadsheets
Getting in Touch
To enquire about PowerPoint training for your staff, please use the contact form below, or alternatively the Quick Quote Request at the top of the page. Our usual response time is less than two hours. You can also call us free on 0800 9055142 for a free no-obligation chat about your training needs.