PowerPoint Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365)

Introduction

• Deliver a powerful message with a powerful presentation
• Check what version of PowerPoint you're using
• Using the exercise files

• Start quickly with a theme or template
• Use the QuickStarter outline tool
• Create and save a new presentation

• Add, remove, and rearrange slides
• Change the slide layout
• Change the slide color or background
• Change slides at once with slide masters
• Add your own text boxes
• Use Designer to create professional layouts

• Add images
• Work with shapes
• Format and add effects to objects
• Align objects using the Arrange tool
• Understand object layering
• Group objects and use Format Painter
• Remove the background from pictures
• Merge and group shapes
• Crop and convert images and icons

• Create and format charts
• Use SmartArt to create diagrams

• Add and format video
• Add and work with audio files
• Add animation to objects and text
• Add slide transitions
• Use Morph to create animation
• Use Zoom to create animation

• Add speaker notes
• Rehearse with timings and Presenter Coach
• Share and collaborate on a presentation
• View previous revisions

• Use Presenter view to run the show
• Run unattended slideshows

• Save a custom theme
• Save a presentation as a template
• Record and narrate a presentation
• Export as a video file
• Email or export as a PDF or JPEG

• Challenge: Make a quote stand out
• Solution: Make a quote stand out
• Challenge: Recreate a slide
• Solution: Recreate a slide
• Challenge: Give a slide a modern facelift
• Solution: Give a slide a modern facelift

• Features for PowerPoint users with disabilities
• Create accessible presentations

• Learn the art of design