Microsoft PowerPoint Essentials

Learn to design a presentation, create it with PowerPoint, and deliver it to your audience, under an experienced trainer with Microsoft certifications.

Explore the PowerPoint interface, including the ribbon with tabs, quick access toolbar, and slide master, and learn to navigate views, insert objects, apply themes, transitions, animations, notes, and presenter view.

Plan your presentation by defining the audience, information, and the message. Create from scratch or reuse templates and slides, sketch ideas on paper, then transfer to PowerPoint with layouts.

Use sections in PowerPoint to build a clear, memorable structure. Create and rename sections (intro, main topic, conclusion) via right-click or the home menu, following a top-to-bottom workflow.

Develop readable PowerPoint slides by managing text and text boxes, keeping on-slide text minimal, using notes for reference, and progressively revealing content across slides for clear audience reading.

Learn to create and connect shapes in PowerPoint, merge and edit points, apply color with eyedropper, align and distribute, and use icons to structure slides.

Learn to enhance PowerPoint presentations with images through drag-and-drop insertion, crop and resize, adjust colors, delete cropped areas for privacy, use photo albums, overlay text and shapes, and manage layering.

Learn to insert tables in PowerPoint, copy from Excel, apply conditional formatting heat maps, and adjust table design, shading, and alignment for clear, polished slides.

Choose to use charts or simple number cards to convey numerical information clearly. Create and format charts in Excel, paste into PowerPoint, and add data labels with colors for emphasis.

Insert and configure audio and video in PowerPoint to enhance presentations, including recording audio for each slide, playback across slides, looping, fade effects, and video trimming.

Learn how slide masters and layout masters enforce consistency across slides by applying logos, fonts, and backgrounds, and how theme changes propagate to all layouts and copied slides across presentations.

Learn to navigate PowerPoint views including normal, slide sorter, reading view, and presenter view; use outlines, thumbnails, guides, and gridlines to structure and align slides.

Learn how to use SmartArt in PowerPoint to replace bullets and illustrate processes, customize layouts and colors, and build hierarchies while understanding element limits and edits.

Learn to create consistent, time-controlled animations and transitions in PowerPoint, using cube transitions, entrance and exit effects, motion paths, and revealing text one by one.

Master PowerPoint slideshow features, including starting from beginning or current slide, creating custom shows, rehearsing timing, and using presenter view across multiple monitors.

Explore morph transition to create fluid slide changes by morphing an image into a larger one, and use summary zoom to jump between sections and back to the big picture.