What you'll learn:
- Creating visually stunning presentations that meet best practice guidelines
- Improving efficiency with keyboard shortcuts and the Quick Access Toolbar
- Working with PowerPoint templates and applying slide layouts to new or existing slides
- Working with images, icons, video, text, shapes, and audio files
- Correctly selecting, aligning, and grouping objects on a slide
- Working with animations, transitions, and motion paths
- Inserting and editing charts, diagrams, and tables
- Creating motion video backgrounds
- Inserting screenshots and recording/narrating presentations
- Working with the Slide Master to make universal changes
- Incorporating third-party add-ins into PowerPoint
- Preparing a presentation for delivery by adding speaker notes, header and footer, and comments
- Using Presenter View to deliver a presentation
- Exporting, sharing, and printing a presentation
***Exercise and demo files included***
Do you need to add some visual impact to your next pitch? Well, look no further, as this course can show you how to do just that.
Microsoft PowerPoint remains, by far, the most popular presentation program in the world. It allows users to create, edit, and show illustrative presentations with the help of attention-grabbing slides. With this in-depth PowerPoint 2021 course, start creating visually impressive and engaging slide decks from scratch and avoid the Death by PowerPoint syndrome.
Everything you need to learn about the software is here. We start with the basics and explore the essential PowerPoint functions such as templates, slide layouts, themes, backgrounds, shapes, images, and text before moving on to more advanced skills such as animation, transitions, diagrams, charts, tables, master slides, and more.
We’ll take you through a slide workshop, where you’ll learn to create slides from scratch and build knowledge as you go. Also get acquainted with PowerPoint 2021’s new functionalities: the eyedropper, slide zoom, summary zoom, the morph transition, and advanced morph. We’ll even show you some keyboard shortcuts so you can work more efficiently.
This course is designed to invite learners of all levels to see PowerPoint in a new light. Unleash your creativity to create dynamic, vibrant presentations.
Here is some of the ground we’ll cover in this course:
Creating visually stunning presentations that meet best practice guidelines
Finding free, high-quality resources like images, icons, fonts, and videos
Improving efficiency with keyboard shortcuts and the Quick Access Toolbar
Opening, closing, and saving presentations
Working with PowerPoint templates
Applying slide layouts to new or existing slides
Duplicating, arranging, copying, and pasting slides and objects
Working with images, icons, video, text, shapes, and audio files
Correctly selecting, aligning, and grouping objects on a slide
Working with animations, transitions, and motion paths
Creating summary pages using slide and summary zoom
Inserting and editing charts, diagrams, and tables
Inserting hyperlinks to other slides, external websites, and mail addresses
Creating motion video backgrounds
Inserting screenshots and recording/narrating presentations
Working with the Slide Master to make universal changes
Incorporating third-party add-ins into PowerPoint
Preparing a presentation for delivery by adding speaker notes, header and footer, and comments
Setting up a custom slide show and rehearsing timings
Using Presenter View to deliver a presentation
Exporting, sharing, and printing a presentation.
This course includes:
10+ hours of video tutorials
98 individual video lectures
Course and exercise files to follow along
Certificate of completion
Here's what our students are saying...
★★★★★ "Excellent course that is well thought out, detailed and easy to follow. Knowledgeable instructor who provides a lot of good tips." -Barry Crawford
★★★★★ "Excellent information presented by a very engaging instructor." -Stephen M. Schneider
