Microsoft Private Public On-Demand

Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint Training (PPT365.2)

1 day
Microsoft PowerPointMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft

Build advanced PowerPoint skills with themes, masters, animation, SmartArt, multimedia, slide shows, collaboration, security, and sharing tools effectively.

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Course Overview

Develop the advanced PowerPoint skills needed to create polished, engaging, and professional presentations. This hands-on course covers themes, slide masters, animations, SmartArt, multimedia, custom slide shows, presentation management, and distribution.

Participants will learn to maintain consistent formatting, add effective visual and multimedia elements, prepare presentations for delivery, combine and review content from multiple files, and export slides and handouts in useful formats. The course also covers accessibility and compatibility checks, font embedding, image compression, encryption, and other tools for finalizing presentations.

PowerPoint version: The course primarily covers PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 and PowerPoint 2021. Differences in earlier versions and available alternatives are identified when applicable.

Course Benefits

  • Work with themes, styles, footers, and sections to customize your presentation.
  • Use the Presentation Masters to ensure consistency throughout your slides, notes, and handouts.
  • Add special effects appropriately and professionally.
  • Create, edit, and import graphic elements and multimedia.
  • Quickly and easily create outlines and handouts for your audience.
  • Merge presentations and reuse slides from multiple sources to save time.
  • Minimize technical issues when sharing your presentation with remote audiences.
  • Embed fonts, compress graphics, and check for compatibility and accessibility for easier distribution. 
  • Protect your presentation with powerful security features.

Delivery Methods

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Course Outline

  1. Customizing Presentations
    1. Applying a Theme
    2. Formatting Backgrounds
    3. Headers and Footers
    4. Adding a Background Image
    5. Customizing Your Presentation (exercise)
  2. Presentation Masters
    1. Working with the Slide Master
    2. Slide Layouts
    3. Formatting Slide Masters and Layouts
    4. Adding a Watermark to Your Presentation
    5. Adding Slide Numbers Using the Slide Master
    6. Inserting a New Slide Master
    7. Removing Unused Slide Masters and Layouts
    8. Modifying the Notes Master
    9. Modifying the Handout Master
    10. Using the Slide Master (exercise)
  3. Working with Special Effects
    1. Animating Bullets
    2. Working with the Animation Painter
    3. Motion Paths
    4. Animating a Chart
    5. Slide Transitions
    6. Applying Special Effects to a Presentation (exercise)
  4. Using SmartArt
    1. Inserting SmartArt Graphics
    2. Modifying SmartArt Graphics
    3. Resizing/Repositioning a SmartArt Object
    4. Inserting Text into a SmartArt Object
    5. Adding Shapes to a SmartArt Object
    6. Ungrouping SmartArt Objects
    7. Working with SmartArt (exercise)
  5. Multimedia
    1. Creating a Photo Album
    2. Editing a Photo Album
    3. Creating a Photo Album (exercise)
    4. Inserting Sounds and Video
    5. Editing Media Clips
    6. Adding Video to a Presentation (exercise)
  6. Setting up the Slide Show
    1. Setting up a Custom Slide Show
    2. Creating a Hyperlink
    3. Adding an Action Button
    4. Zoom
    5. Presenting a Custom Show (exercise)
    6. Using Rehearse Timings
    7. Navigating within a Slide Show
    8. Annotating a Presentation
    9. Preparing the Slide Show (exercise)
    10. Recording a Slide Show
  7. Outlines and Slides
    1. Exporting Handouts to Word
    2. Exporting an Outline to Word
    3. Saving a Presentation as an Outline
    4. Saving a Slide as a Graphic
    5. Exporting Handouts (exercise)
  8. Managing Multiple Presentations
    1. Merging Multiple Presentations
    2. Viewing Multiple Presentations
    3. Tracking Changes in PowerPoint
    4. Reviewing Changes in PowerPoint (exercise)
    5. Adding Comments
  9. Finalizing Presentations
    1. Inspecting a Presentation
    2. Encrypting a Presentation
    3. Embedding the Fonts in a Presentation
    4. Saving a Presentation in PDF Format
    5. Compressing Pictures
    6. Marking a Presentation as Final

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this Microsoft PowerPoint class:

  • Basic experience creating and editing presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Prerequisite Courses

Courses that can help you meet these prerequisites:

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