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Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint Training On-Demand (PPT365.2)

7 hours

Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Microsoft 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.

About the Course Authors

Margaux Judge

Margaux Judge has worked as an e-learning editor and instructional designer for over ten years, writing and editing a wide variety of courses, from technical topics to soft skills. She has a Bachelor's degree in English and Textual Studies from Syracuse University and a Master's degree in Television Writing from Boston University.

Tracy Berry

Since starting her training career in 1993, Tracy Berry has helped countless people learn new skills and develop professionally. She was an early adopter of virtual training and has delivered over 1,600 virtual classes for Webucator since 2007. She teaches hundreds of classes each year, covering all Microsoft Office products and versions, including SharePoint and Project, along with a wide range of soft skills courses, including time management, stress management, interpersonal communications, and decision support. Tracy is also the co-author of many of Webucator's Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and Adobe courses. Known for her vibrant teaching style, Tracy ensures her classes are engaging, interactive, and far from monotonous, encouraging students to participate actively. Testimonials from her students frequently commend her for making learning an enjoyable and enriching experience, highlighting her enthusiasm, subject matter expertise, and genuine love for teaching and her students. Tracy is a Certified Technical Trainer. Her average instructor evaluation is 9.6 out of 10.
In addition to her training, Tracy is a graphic designer/programmer and consultant and has developed hundreds of logos, marketing materials, websites, and multimedia solutions for customers worldwide. She has been involved in large corporate software rollouts and helped many organizations optimize and streamline data solutions.

Course Outline

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Course Prerequisites

Required experience

Basic experience creating and editing presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Prerequisite Courses

Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint Training

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