Course Description

This focused half-day course delivers the most impactful intermediate PowerPoint techniques for busy professionals. Designed to enhance your presentations quickly, you'll learn how to elevate your slides with professional design elements, engaging animations, and dynamic content. Perfect for those who need to create more sophisticated presentations but have limited training time, this streamlined course prioritises the most valuable PowerPoint features that will immediately improve your presentation quality and delivery impact.

Target Student

Ideal for professionals who already have basic PowerPoint competence and need to quickly enhance their presentation skills. This course is perfect for those who regularly create presentations and want to stand out with more polished, engaging content. If you're comfortable with PowerPoint fundamentals but need to quickly master more advanced techniques for upcoming presentations or projects, this concentrated half-day session will equip you with the essential tools to make your presentations more professional and memorable.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create customised presentations with templates.
• Add special effects.
• Use the slide masters.
• Manage hyperlinks.
• Use Multimedia content.
• Create custom shows.

Pre-requisites

Attending this course, students must have: Introductory level PowerPoint skills.

Course Content

Presentation Masters

• Working with the Slide Master
• Slide Layouts
• Applying a Background Style
• Formatting Slide Masters and Layouts

Working with Special Effects

• Animating Text and Objects
• Animating a 3D Model
• Animating a SmartArt Graphic
• Using Transition Effects

Using SmartArt

• Inserting SmartArt Graphics
• Modifying Smart Art Graphics
• Inserting Text into a SmartArt Object
• Adding Shapes to a SmartArt Object

Multimedia

• Creating a Photo Album
• Customising an Album
• Inserting Sounds and Video
• Inserting a 3D Model
• Export a Presentation as a Video

Setting Up the Slide Show

• Setting Up a Custom Show
• Creating a Hyperlink
• Rehearse Slide Show Timings
• Setting Up a Slide Show to Repeat Automatically
• Reusing Slides from Other Presentations
• Exporting Notes and Handouts to Word