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Designing a Title Slide with Shapes: PowerPoint Beginner

Designing a Title Slide with Shapes: PowerPoint Beginner

Essential PowerPoint skills to design polished slides and create captivating presentations.
Created bySimon Sez IT
Last updated 12/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Create visually appealing slides using diverse layouts.
  • Efficiently add, arrange, and duplicate presentation slides.
  • Incorporate slides from external presentations for seamless integration.
  • Develop slides from outlines for streamlined content creation.

Course content

1 section14 lectures1h 2m total length
  • Course Introduction1:16
  • WATCH ME: Essential Information for a Successful Training Experience2:03
  • DOWNLOAD ME: Course Files0:23
  • DOWNLOAD ME: Exercise Files0:23
  • Resizing a Background Image: Crop and Fill5:51
  • Transparent Shape Overlays6:40
  • Drawing and Formatting Shapes6:31
  • Locking Shapes and Setting a Default Shape3:32
  • Merging Shapes9:06
  • Inserting a Logo: Filling Shapes with Pictures4:15
  • Adding a Title and Subtitle: Inserting Text Boxes9:12
  • Using the Eyedropper Tool5:12
  • Course Exercise6:28
  • Course Close1:25
  • Course Quiz

Requirements

  • Prior experience with creating simple PowerPoint presentations will be beneficial but not essential
  • A general understanding of design principles is helpful but not mandatory.
  • Access to Microsoft PowerPoint 2021.

Description

This course includes downloadable course instructor files and exercise files to work with and follow along.


In the Microsoft PowerPoint Designing a Title Slide course, you'll learn essential design skills to enhance your presentations. You'll master techniques such as resizing background images with crop and fill options, creating transparent shape overlays for a polished look, and drawing and formatting shapes with ease. Learn to lock shapes and set a default for efficiency and explore the art of merging shapes for unique designs. Unleash your creativity by inserting logos and filling shapes with captivating pictures. Discover the impact of text with lessons on adding titles, subtitles using text boxes, and precise color matching with the eyedropper tool.


By completing this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge to create polished presentations efficiently, improving your communication skills and professional impact. Reinforce your learning with practical examples and exercises throughout the course, ensuring a hands-on understanding of the material. Elevate your PowerPoint game and captivate your audience like never before.


In this course, you'll learn how to:

  • Create visually appealing slides using diverse layouts.

  • Efficiently add, arrange, and duplicate presentation slides.

  • Incorporate slides from external presentations for seamless integration.

  • Develop slides from outlines for streamlined content creation.


This course includes:

  1. 62 minutes of video tutorials

  2. 11 individual video lectures

  3. Course and Exercise Files to follow along

  4. Certificate of completion

Who this course is for:

  • Learners and educators aiming to improve their presentation techniques for assignments, lectures, or research presentations.
  • Individuals looking to pitch ideas or create compelling investor decks with visually stunning slides.
  • Those who frequently deliver presentations and want to elevate their design skills to create polished, professional slides.
  • Anyone interested in learning creative design techniques in PowerPoint, from beginners to intermediate users looking to advance their skills.