Microsoft PowerPoint: Presentations, Book Covers, Animation
What you'll learn
- Create basic bulletted presentation slides
- Insert advanced elements such as Smart Art to enhance slide impact
- Use advanced slide animation to create visually stunning slides
- Produce video presentations of PowerPoint presentations
Requirements
- A preinstalled copy of Microsoft PowerPoint 2013/2016/365 is required
- The course demonstrates PowerPoint on a PC running Windows 8.1/10
Description
Want to Take Your PowerPoint Presentation Slides to a Whole New Level?
You may think you know Microsoft PowerPoint, but you don't know Jack if you don't know how to use advanced animation to bring your boring static slides to life.
Your PowerPoint slides may be information-packed, but they may also lack visual impact if you're not familiar with the use of shapes, WordArt, and SmartArt.
Your presentations are going to collect dust on your computer if you don't learn how to produce and share them on the Internet.
Hi, My Name is Brian, and I'd Like to Teach you Microsoft PowerPoint
We'll begin by reviewing a set of orientation lectures that will familiarize you with the Microsoft PowerPoint window and screen layout.
Next, we'll cover the basics of PowerPoint, in which you'll learn to create simple, bulleted item-based presentations.
Then we'll learn to insert visual elements into your presentations to add impact and help convey your message.
Finally, we'll explore advanced animation techniques and discuss how to record and share your finished presentations online.
If You're Finally Ready to Learn Microsoft PowerPoint, I'm Prepared to Teach You
In this course, you'll learn everything you need to know to use Microsoft PowerPoint like a professional. I'll teach you the basics from the ground up, add some intermediate elements, and conclude with advanced automation and presentation production techniques. This course offers comprehensive Microsoft PowerPoint training, covering beginner to advanced levels.
You'll learn the basics:
PowerPoint Window and Screen Layout
Creating and Saving Presentations
Inserting, Deleting and Moving Slides
Editing Slide Contents
Configuring Slide Transitions
Adding Simple Animation
Then we'll add some intermediate flourishes:
Insert pictures, text boxes, shapes, smart art, tables, charts and graphs
Finally, we'll finish the course off with some advanced topics
Advanced Animation
Advanced Presentation Production
Newly Added: 6+ Hours of Additional Advanced Information
As of this writing, I've spent the last month extending this course from its original 3-hour format to a 9.5-hour course. Additions have been included throughout, but the main additions are in 5 new advanced sections:
Advanced Presentation Skills
Advanced Animation
Creating Book Covers in PowerPoint
PowerPoint Presentation Production Options
Business Graphics
Why Not Check Out the Course and See What You've Been Missing?
PowerPoint mastery is just a click away. Why not give yourself the gift of knowledge and join me in learning today?
Don't forget Udemy's 30-day no-questions-asked money-back guarantee.
P.S. The course includes four downloadable sample Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, including the slides for the course overview and promotional video.
So, what are you waiting for? Let's get started today.
I'll see you in the classroom,
---Brian
Who this course is for:
- Beginners to Microsoft PowerPoint who want to learn it all
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 5,315 Reviews
- 160,696 Students
- 25 Courses
Hello,
My name is Brian Jackson. I'm the writer of approximately two dozen Amazon books, the publisher of over 100 Amazon books, and a Udemy instructor with almost 30 courses.
Over the last 14 years, since July 2011, I've made over $725,000 online through publishing Amazon Kindle eBooks and Udemy online video training courses.
This is my story...
1 Origins
I was born in Los Angeles, California, in the middle of the last century. I graduated from Humboldt State University amid the redwoods of Northern California. After working for Lockheed Missiles and Space for 14 years as an IBM system programmer and Cisco Systems for 12 years as a test engineer, I retired at 48.
I instantly became bored.
2 Community College
In response to my boredom, I enrolled in Columbia Community College to take writing, art, acting, and statistics classes. I took 24 units over one year and received straight A's.
I was still bored.
3 Writing and Self-publishing
I began writing fiction and nonfiction books and self-publishing them on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords in July 2011. Though I wrote and published several books, my self-publishing business didn’t take off until my wife joined me.
4 My Wife and Author, Melanie Jackson
My wife, Melanie Jackson, was an author who published over two romance novels per year through her New York publisher, Dorchester Press. After publishing 24 novels with Dorchester, the company folded, and Melanie was without a publisher (she wanted to write cozy mysteries anyway).
I convinced Melanie to join me in self-publishing cozy mysteries on Amazon.
5 The Self-publishing Years
For the last 14 years, from July 2011 until now (2/15/2025), my wife and I have written and self-published cozy mysteries. At first, we continued to self-publish on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords, but eventually chose to self-publish exclusively on Amazon. I've self-published well over 100 of my wife’s books on Amazon.
During the last 14 years, from 2011 until now (2/15/2025), my wife and I have made precisely $501,711.89 self-publishing books on Amazon alone.
6 My Wife and I
When I say “my wife and I,” I mean that my wife did the writing, and I helped with the brainstorming, did half the editing, created the book covers, and self-published and marketed my wife’s books. So, my wife had it pretty good while I honed my writing, self-publishing and marketing skills.
After about five years of self-publishing a book every two months, Melanie and I burned out and slowed way, waaayyy, doowwwnnn…
7 Udemy
I began publishing courses on Udemy, Skillshare and multiple other sites in July 2014, focusing on writing, self-publishing and book covers. Within ten weeks, I had published my first 10 Udemy courses. I currently (2/15/2025) publish almost exclusively on Udemy and have almost 30 Udemy courses to my name. I've made precisely $223,176.49 to date and celebrated my 10th anniversary on Udemy last July.
I currently live in Las Vegas, Nevada, with my lovely wife, author Melanie Jackson, and Chloe, the cat.
I'll see you in the classroom,
---Brian