Course Description

This half-day PowerPoint Essentials course delivers the fundamental skills needed to create effective presentations in a time-efficient format. Perfect for busy professionals, this condensed training focuses on the most immediately useful PowerPoint features and techniques. You'll quickly learn to create slides, add content, incorporate visuals, and prepare your presentation for delivery. This streamlined course prioritises hands-on practice with the core tools you'll use most frequently in day-to-day presentation creation.

Target Student

Ideal for professionals who need to quickly develop basic PowerPoint skills with minimal time investment. This course suits complete beginners or those with limited exposure to PowerPoint who need to rapidly build competence for an upcoming presentation or project. If you need to create straightforward, professional-looking slides and have limited time for training, this focused half-day session will equip you with the essential skills to get started immediately.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Start and end a PowerPoint session.
• Edit a presentation.
• Create different types of slides.
• Format slides and use templates.
• Use the Slide Sorter to reorganize a presentation.
• Apply Tables and Charts to a presentation.
• Run a slide show.

Course Content

Creating a PowerPoint Presentation

• Starting Microsoft PowerPoint
• Normal View
• Creating a Presentation
• Saving a Document
• Closing a Presentation

The Ribbon

• The Ribbon
• Tabs
• Groups
• Commands

The Backstage View (The File Menu)

• Introduction to the Backstage View
• Opening a Presentation
• New Presentation and Presentation Templates

Formatting Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations

• Selecting a Slide Layout
• Adding text
• Adding Text from a Text File or Word Outline
• Editing / Formatting Text
• Formatting Text as WordArt
• Creating Bulleted and Numbered Lists
• Formatting Text Placeholders
• Arranging Slides

Working with Images

• Adding Images to a Slide
• Inserting an Online Picture
• Capturing and Inserting a Snapshot
• Editing an Image
• Applying Picture Styles & Cropping an Images
• Adding Shapes

Working with Tables and Charts

• Inserting a Table
• Formatting Tables
• Inserting a Chart
• Formatting a Chart