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PowerPoint Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365)

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Overview

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Learn how to create, edit, and share professional-looking presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365).

You don't have to be a designer to create a great-looking presentation. Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) to quickly create, edit, and share professional-looking presentations. In this training course, Jess Stratton shows how to get started with PowerPoint templates and themes or build a new presentation from scratch. She explains how to change the slide layout; add and edit text, images, charts, video, and animation; format slides for consistency; and add speaker notes and comments to ensure a smooth delivery. Plus, discover how to collaborate on changes and share presentations with others. By the end of the course, you'll know how to use the PowerPoint tools and follow a few simple design rules to draw attention to your message and deliver a presentation that shines.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Deliver a powerful message with a powerful presentation
  • Check what version of PowerPoint you're using
  • Using the exercise files
1. Get Started Quickly
  • Start quickly with a theme or template
  • Use the QuickStarter outline tool
  • Create and save a new presentation
2. Work with Slides
  • 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
3. Images and Shapes
  • 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
4. Add Diagrams and Charts
  • Create and format charts
  • Use SmartArt to create diagrams
5. Add Video, Audio, and Animation to Slides
  • 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
6. Collaborate and Prepare
  • Add speaker notes
  • Rehearse with timings and Presenter Coach
  • Share and collaborate on a presentation
  • View previous revisions
7. Deliver the Presentation
  • Use Presenter view to run the show
  • Run unattended slideshows
8. Reuse the Presentation
  • 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
9. PowerPoint Challenges
  • 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
Conclusion
  • Learn the art of design

Taught by

Jess Stratton

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