Microsoft Private Public On-Demand

Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint Training (PPT365.2)

1 day
Microsoft PowerPointMicrosoftMicrosoft Office

Master advanced PowerPoint techniques for themes, slide masters, animation, SmartArt, multimedia, custom shows, collaboration, security, and sharing tools.

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Course Overview

Build the advanced Microsoft PowerPoint skills needed to create polished, engaging, and professional presentations. This hands-on course explores themes, presentation masters, animation, SmartArt, multimedia, custom slide shows, content reuse, presentation management, and distribution.

Learn to maintain consistent formatting, incorporate effective visual and multimedia elements, prepare presentations for delivery, review content from multiple files, and export slides and handouts in useful formats. You will also work with accessibility and compatibility checks, font embedding, image compression, encryption, and other tools for finalizing presentations.

Course Benefits

  • Customize presentations with themes, backgrounds, footers, and sections.
  • Use slide, notes, and handout masters to maintain consistent formatting.
  • Apply animations, motion paths, and transitions effectively and professionally.
  • Create and modify SmartArt, graphics, audio, and video content.
  • Configure, rehearse, record, and navigate custom slide shows.
  • Export outlines, handouts, and slides for use in other formats.
  • Merge presentations, reuse slides, track changes, and manage review comments.
  • Improve distribution by embedding fonts, compressing images, and checking compatibility and accessibility.
  • Inspect, encrypt, and finalize presentations for secure sharing.

Delivery Methods

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Course Outline

  1. Customizing Presentations
    1. Applying a theme
    2. Formatting backgrounds
    3. Working with headers and footers
    4. Adding a background image
    5. Exercise: Customizing a presentation
  2. Presentation Masters
    1. Working with the slide master
    2. Using slide layouts
    3. Formatting slide masters and layouts
    4. Adding a watermark
    5. Adding slide numbers with 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. Exercise: Using the slide master
  3. Working with Special Effects
    1. Animating bullets
    2. Using the Animation Painter
    3. Creating motion paths
    4. Animating a chart
    5. Applying slide transitions
    6. Exercise: Applying special effects to a presentation
  4. Using SmartArt
    1. Inserting SmartArt graphics
    2. Modifying SmartArt graphics
    3. Resizing and repositioning a SmartArt object
    4. Adding text to a SmartArt object
    5. Adding shapes to a SmartArt object
    6. Ungrouping SmartArt objects
    7. Exercise: Working with SmartArt
  5. Working with Multimedia
    1. Creating a photo album
    2. Editing a photo album
    3. Exercise: Creating a photo album
    4. Inserting audio and video
    5. Editing media clips
    6. Exercise: Adding video to a presentation
  6. Setting Up the Slide Show
    1. Creating a custom slide show
    2. Creating a hyperlink
    3. Adding an action button
    4. Using Zoom
    5. Exercise: Presenting a custom show
    6. Using Rehearse Timings
    7. Navigating within a slide show
    8. Annotating a presentation
    9. Exercise: Preparing the slide show
    10. Recording a slide show
  7. Working with 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. Exercise: Exporting handouts
  8. Managing Multiple Presentations
    1. Merging multiple presentations
    2. Viewing multiple presentations
    3. Tracking changes in PowerPoint
    4. Exercise: Reviewing changes in PowerPoint
    5. Adding comments
  9. Finalizing Presentations
    1. Inspecting a presentation
    2. Encrypting a presentation
    3. Embedding fonts
    4. Saving a presentation as a PDF
    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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