Boot Camp: PowerPoint for Success
A three-day PowerPoint boot camp from design to delivery. Master formatting, images, and charts, customize slide masters and templates, add SmartArt and multimedia, and finish with advanced animations and confident, polished delivery.
Scheduled dates
This course is available for private and onsite training - delivered for your team anywhere in the U.S., or virtually on your schedule. You can also ask us to add it to the public calendar, or let us know you’re interested and we’ll reach out when a date is set.
Course objective
Learn to build, customize, and deliver professional presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. Students will gain practical skills for creating polished presentations that are easier to design, update, share, and present. This course covers foundational through advanced PowerPoint skills, including slide masters, templates, SmartArt, multimedia, animations, linked content, review tools, protection options, and best practices for creating effective slide content.
Prerequisites
To ensure your success, each student should have a general knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Course outline
- Navigate the Quick Access Toolbar, Ribbon, and Backstage
- Fundamentals of presentation design
- Formatting options for text, paragraphs, and text boxes
- Using Office Online for templates and image clip art
- Insert images and shapes into the presentation
- Object formatting and layout features
- How to create a table or import a table from a different Office application
- Present data visually using charts created in PowerPoint or Excel
- Methods for delivering the presentation
- Modify the user interface and Office options
- Update the Slide Master and Slide Layouts
- Addition of SmartArt
- Make the PowerPoint Slideshow a multimedia presentation with audio and video
- PowerPoint collaboration and cloud storage
- Add annotations, and update the Notes Master and Handout Master
- Customize and secure the slide show
- Advanced animations and transitions
- Create Master slides, layouts, and templates
- Add interactive features to the presentation
- Perform a review of contents, and learn the different levels of protection
- Link and embed content from the web, other Office applications.
- Insert a screenshot and use the picture format tools for best use of images