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Microsoft PowerPoint for Beginners - Training Course in PowerPoint 2021/365

Simon Sez IT via YouTube

Overview

Embark on a comprehensive 4-hour training course designed for beginners to master Microsoft PowerPoint 2021/365. Learn essential presentation tips, customize the interface, and explore key functionalities including slide layouts, themes, shapes, images, and text manipulation. Discover advanced techniques like using the eyedropper tool, applying morph transitions, aligning objects, and utilizing format painter. Gain practical experience through downloadable exercise files, enabling you to create visually stunning presentations with confidence. Navigate the course easily using provided timestamps to focus on specific topics or skip familiar sections.

Syllabus

- Intro
- PowerPoint 2021 Introduction
- Creating Visually Stunning Presentation
- Tips and Best Practice
- Free Resources and Inspiration
- Exercise 01
- PowerPoint 2021 Interface
- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
- Opening, Closing and Saving Presentations
- Using Templates
- PowerPoint Options
- Exercise 02
- Slide Layouts
- Adding, Arranging and Duplicating Slides
- Reusing Slides from Other Presentations
- Creating Slides from an Outline
- Slides Themes and Backgrounds
- Exercise 03
- Resizing a Background Image
- Transparent Shape Overlays
- Drawing and Formatting Shapes
- Locking Shapes and Setting a Default Shape
- Merging Shapes
- Inserting a Logo
- Adding a Title and Subtitle
- Using Eyedropper Tool
- Exercise 04
- Selecting Objects
- Arranging, Renaming and Changing the Z-order
- Aligning and Grouping Objects
- Exercise 05
- Duplicating and Reformatting Slides
- Filling Multiple Shapes with Images
- Format Painter
- Bullets
- The Morph Transition
- Exercise 06

Taught by

Simon Sez IT

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