Professional Microsoft PowerPoint Basic to Advanced Course

Learn to create and customize PowerPoint slides by choosing templates like title slide, title and content, section header, and comparison, resize and fit to window, and add titles and subtitles.

Navigate PowerPoint’s file, home, insert, and design tabs; customize the quick access toolbar; download and apply default templates from online themes; learn to save and locate presentations.

Export, share, and print PowerPoint presentations using options like save to cloud, email, and PDF. Choose all slides, current slide, or a custom range, set paper size and layout.

Explore PowerPoint options to customize the general user interface and office background colors. Configure proofing, auto recover, language, undo limits, and tailor the ribbon and quick access toolbar.

Learn to manage slides in power point by duplicating, copying, cutting, and pasting; adding, deleting, applying layouts, resetting, and hiding slides; and customizing backgrounds with color, gradient, texture, or pictures.

Explore insert drawing tools in PowerPoint to create shapes, lines, rectangles, banners, arrows, flow charts, and call outs, using text boxes, resizing, rotating, and alignment options.

Explore PowerPoint drawing basics, including quick style, fill shape, outline, and shape effects. Learn to customize shape colors using texture, gradient color, and picture, with eyedropper or no fill options.

Learn to apply shape effects in PowerPoint, adjusting shadows, reflections, transparency, glow, softness, and 3D rotation to enhance drawn objects, with practice refining your technique.

Learn to use shape format in PowerPoint to modify lines, change colors, resize shapes, rotate at 90 degrees, move layers forward, and edit points for custom shapes.

Learn to format paragraphs in PowerPoint by aligning text left, center, right, and using justify for clean margins. Adjust indentation, line spacing, and spacing before text to improve slide readability.

Master PowerPoint's column layouts by adding two or three columns and adjusting spacing, then align text and convert selected text into smart art for dynamic, data-driven visuals.

Learn to insert and edit tables in PowerPoint by using insert table, draw table, and Excel options; set columns and rows, apply styles, shading, borders, and total row.

Learn to insert images in PowerPoint with multiple options—from device, online pictures, or paste from the web—create a photo album, and capture screenshots using picture formats and clipping tools.

Modify images in PowerPoint using picture format to remove backgrounds, adjust color, apply borders and styles, crop, resize, and control aspect ratio.

Learn to insert and customize SmartArt in PowerPoint, exploring list, process, cycle, relationship, matrix, and pyramid layouts, adjust colors and styles, and add or edit shapes.

Learn to insert and customize charts in PowerPoint, select column, line, pie, bar, area, xy scatter, stock, and surface types, and edit data with series names, titles, and axis titles.

Explore linking options in PowerPoint, including hyperlinks to files and URLs, actions like run program or run macro, and adding comments for reference slides.

Master inserting and formatting text boxes, header and footer, date and time, slide numbers, and text art in PowerPoint to create polished slides.

Learn how to insert and open external files during a presentation using the object option, such as Adobe Acrobat or AutoCAD files, by double-clicking to reveal content.

Explore how to customize slide backgrounds with the variants option, selecting colors and fills—solid, gradient, picture, texture, or pattern—and adjust transparency to create professional presentations.

Customize slide size and orientation in the design tab, selecting standard or custom dimensions before starting work to avoid future breaks; apply solid or gradient backgrounds.

Learn the difference between transitions and animation, and apply text and data animations using options like appear, fly in, bounce, font color changes, and paragraph sequencing on slides.

Explore how to set animation timing in PowerPoint, including start options, after previous sequencing, auto duration, and delaying text appearances for polished slide transitions.

Master PowerPoint slideshow options, including start from beginning, start from current slide, and custom slideshow; start from beginning by clicking or F5, and navigate with arrows.

Learn to create and use a custom show in PowerPoint by selecting slides, naming the show, deleting unwanted slides, and running slides 3, 4, and 6.

Master PowerPoint view and review tools, including outline, normal, and reading views, plus comments and notes. Learn to adjust slide visibility, color, and zoom for efficient presentation workflows.

Learn to design a professional poster in PowerPoint by creating a custom 7.5 by 10 inch portrait slide, with text, images, colors, and shapes.