Microsoft PowerPoint Course: Level 2

Microsoft PowerPoint. Build the story, present with presence and inspire your audience.

Aims

This Microsoft PowerPoint training course aims to provide experienced PowerPoint users with the skills to work with PowerPoints more advanced features such as masters, creating templates and themes, and using media such as video and audio to expand your presentation as well as providing tips to assist efficiency.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• create and work effectively with themes
• view and modify slide masters
• create and use custom templates
• create and work with tables
• create and work with charts
• insert and edit images
• edit inserted images
• insert and work with different types of media
• create animations in a presentation
• set up a presentation for the required presentation mode
• save and share your presentations in other formats.

Content

Themes

• Understanding themes
• Applying a theme
• Changing the theme colours
• Creating custom theme colours
• Changing the theme fonts
• Changing the slide background
• Saving a customised theme
• Using a customised theme
• Deleting a customised theme

Slide masters

• Understanding slide masters
• Viewing the slide master
• Changing the master font
• Modifying bullets
• Inserting an image
• Applying slide transitions to the slide master
• Inserting slide numbers
• Creating custom slide layouts
• Modifying slide layouts

Templates

• Understanding templates
• Setting a custom templates location
• Using an existing template
• Creating a template from a template
• Saving a custom template
• Creating a template from a theme
• Modifying a template
• Using a custom template

Tables

• Inserting a table using the ribbon
• Inserting rows and columns
• Applying a table style
• Merging and splitting cells
• Adjusting column widths
• Adjusting row heights
• Resizing and positioning a table
• Formatting table data
• Aligning table data
• Applying borders
• Applying shading

Charts

• Understanding charts
• Inserting a chart using the ribbon
• Changing the chart type
• Chart elements
• Using quick layouts
• Understanding chart buttons
• Changing the layout of chart elements
• Applying a chart style
• Understanding the chart format panes
• Formatting chart elements
• Editing a data series
• Hiding data series
• Working with pie charts

Images

• Understanding clip art and pictures
• Inserting a picture from file
• Inserting an online picture
• Resizing an image
• Positioning an image
• Inserting clip art
• Modifying graphics
• Rotating and flipping clip art
• Inserting a screenshot
• Inserting a screen clip
• Creating a photo album

Enhancing images

• Understanding picture enhancements
• The format picture pane
• Removing an image background
• Applying colour corrections
• Recolouring an image
• Applying a picture style
• Applying picture effects
• Applying artistic effects
• Cropping an image

Media and action buttons

• Understanding media in powerpoint
• Inserting an online video
• Inserting an online audio clip
• Formatting media clips
• Editing audio clips
• Optimising and compressing media
• Understanding action buttons
• Inserting action buttons

Animations and transitions

• Understanding animations and transitions
• Animating text
• Animating objects
• Applying multiple effects
• Applying motion paths
• The animation pane
• Setting the timing
• Animating smartart graphics
• Using slide transitions

Setting up the show

• About self-running presentations
• Recording a slide show
• Setting up a self-running presentation
• Rehearsing timings
• Setting up a speaker-led show
• Creating a custom show
• Understanding presenter view
• Using presenter view

Saving and sharing presentations

• Packaging presentations for CD
• Saving a presentation as a PDF document
• Saving a presentation as a video
• Sending a presentation via email
• Presenting a slide show online
• Saving to a storage device

Working collaboratively

• Co-authoring documents
• Saving to onedrive
• Sharing presentations
• Opening shared presentations

Intended audience

This course assumes a basic understanding of the software.

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with the basic functions of a computer operating system such as navigating the environment using a mouse and keyboard, starting applications, copying and pasting objects, formatting text, creating folders, opening files, saving files, familiarity with the accessing the Internet and use of common web browsers. If you do not have these skills, we recommend attending Basic Computer Skills Course and Effective Internet Use before attempting this course.

Delivery style

• Presenter-taught training in a computer lab
• Online training via the platform Zoom

Materials

You will be provided with a link to access and download your own personalised eBook prior to class.

Teaching instructions and materials for this course are specifically tailored to Windows PC users.

Additional information

Face-to-face classes

These classes run in a computer lab and you do not need to bring your own device.

Please bring a USB flash drive to class if you would like to make a copy of your work or any relevant class materials. Alternatively, you can save these to a cloud storage space or email them to your personal email address.

Online classes

If you are attending an online class, you will need your own device.

Recommended operating system: Windows
Recommended software for PC: MS Office 2016, 2019, 365