
Explore the PowerPoint start screen and backstage view, including blank or template presentations, recent and pinned files, saving, sharing, exporting, and customizing the ribbon with the developer tab.
Discover two ways to create PowerPoint presentations—blank or from a template—access hundreds of templates via new searches, and edit templates by text and images.
Learn how to save a PowerPoint presentation using backstage view, save and save as, choose locations like desktop or one drive, rename files, and use control S.
Explore the quick access toolbar and the title bar, learning to use commands like new, open, save, undo, and redo, and how to customize the toolbar.
Master the PowerPoint search bar to locate and apply commands for text, shapes, and illustrations across PowerPoint 2019, 2021, and Microsoft 365.
Discover how the PowerPoint ribbon organizes tools into tabs and command groups, including home, insert, design, and other tabs, to manipulate your presentation.
Explore the outline tab, also known as the thumbnail, to view slide outlines. Use the work area for slide design and the node pane to hide content and add notes.
Master PowerPoint’s view options—normal, slide sorter, reading, and slideshow—alongside the zoom slider and status bar, and learn to annotate slides with pen, highlighter, and eraser during presentations.
Learn to create slides and sections in PowerPoint by choosing slide layouts, adding new slides, inserting images, and organizing content with sections like graphs and charts and parts of charts.
Master slide layout in PowerPoint by changing layouts and content with caption, without creating new slides. Learn to manage sections, images, and text header, footer, and word art.
Learn to work with text in PowerPoint using text boxes, font formatting, bullets, and header and footer. Explore text alignment, line spacing, and WordArt to create polished slides.
Master object and slide alignment in PowerPoint by aligning and distributing images, shapes, and text, using rulers and grids for consistent spacing across slides.
Learn to apply and customize slide themes, backgrounds with gradients or pictures, adjust colors and fonts like Franklin Gothic, and set slide size across all slides.
Master slide shows in PowerPoint, starting from the beginning or current slide, creating custom slideshows for graphs and charts, and configuring timing, narration, pen tools, and presenter view.
Explore slide zoom in PowerPoint: create summary zoom, section zoom, and slide zoom to present content non linear way, navigate sections, and jump to slides, with editable zoom options.
Master the slide master in PowerPoint to apply universal colors, fonts, logos, and layouts across all slides, and create customized layouts with themes and placeholders.
Print, customize, and share PowerPoint slides with confidence. Learn to set copies, choose printers, adjust orientation and paper size, print notes and outlines, and share as PDF or PowerPoint attachments.
Find high quality free pictures and icons in the latest Microsoft 365 PowerPoint using insert, stock images, and online pictures, with Pixabay and IconFinder as free alternatives.
Explore inserting and formatting pictures in PowerPoint, including from device, stock images, and online pictures, and master editing tools like remove background, brightness, contrast, recolor, borders, and cropping.
Learn to work with shapes and 3D models in PowerPoint, from inserting and editing shapes and applying merge options and fills, to adding 3D models and navigating their views.
Capture screenshots and screen clips from open Windows and web pages, then insert and paste them into PowerPoint using screenshot, screen clipping, or snipping tool.
Learn to create icons in PowerPoint using shapes, including a computer, fish, camera, and search icon, by combining shapes, filling colors, and grouping them.
Learn to insert and customize charts in PowerPoint, edit data in the embedded Excel sheet, adjust chart elements and titles, and animate charts for clear data visuals.
Learn to create editable symbols in PowerPoint by converting font symbols into image icons using shapes, intersect, and merge shapes techniques.
Master the PowerPoint drawing tools, including the draw tab, ink to shape, and ink to math. Customize the ribbon, choose pen colors, and use the ruler for precise lines.
Learn to insert and draw tables in PowerPoint, format borders, shading, and manage rows, columns, merges, and layouts.
Learn to insert and customize SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint, explore categories and layouts, apply colors and styles, and convert between text and SmartArt to communicate information.
Explore PowerPoint slide transitions, applying dynamic effects to move between slides, and adjust effect options, duration, timing, and sound, with mouse-click or timed advancement.
Learn special transition effects in PowerPoint, focusing on cutting and morph transitions, using images, cropping, timing, and drag and duplicate techniques to animate introductions and reveals.
Insert pictures from your resource folder into PowerPoint, crop and resize them on a new slide, and apply the coating transition effect as guided in section four, activity one.
Create a blank PowerPoint presentation, insert a single image from your resource folder, duplicate slides, and apply the move transition to all slides for the slide show.
Explore PowerPoint animation basics, including entrance, emphasis, exit, and motion path effects. Learn to apply custom paths, adjust timing, and use preview to control how objects move on slides.
Learn to apply animation effects to images and text in PowerPoint, using entrance, emphasis, exit, and motion path; synchronize animations with the animation pane, adjust timing, and combine effects.
Master advanced PowerPoint animation by layering multiple effects on text and images, using add animation, triggers, and animation painter to synchronize actions and create interactive slides.
Master PowerPoint animation effects and timing with the animation pane. Apply text animations, word-by-word or by-letter, set start options, and refine timing, motion paths, and triggers.
Activity 1 teaches building a school advert in PowerPoint by importing images from the resources folder, arranging shapes, and applying flying animations and word-by-word text effects.
Work through activity two in the section five resource folder, add two images and typing text, then apply appear animation via the animation pane and convert slides to a video.
Import three images, set a background, apply motion effects to a line and lion, add text, preview, and export as mp4 to master basic PowerPoint animation in activity three.
Learn how to record slide narrations and screen activity in PowerPoint, using the recording tab to capture narration, annotations, and timing, then export to video.
Learn to record your screen in PowerPoint, capture the full display or a selected area with audio and the mouse pointer, then trim and adjust playback and video effects.
Learn to add voice overs to PowerPoint slides by inserting audio, recording sound, and attaching it to each slide, then play the audio to enhance your presentation.
Export your slide or screen recordings to video by using recorded timings and narration, choosing mp4 or PowerPoint show, and rendering the final file.
Record your first PowerPoint slide show using the built-in recording tool, with optional screen and camera video, using a slide from your resource folder or a template.
Create a blank slide, record your screen by selecting a desktop area, then stop recording and learn how to create a folder on Windows or Mac OS.
Convert your slide recording to video by exporting to video, clicking create video, and saving the file as MP4 to complete activity three.
This course was recorded using MICROSOFT POWERPOINT 2021/365 on a Windows machine but is relevant to PowerPoint 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019.
This course will prepare you with all the tools, knowledge, and skills you need as a beginner to master PowerPoint applications, and become a professional and proficient user of MS PowerPoint.
This Course Includes 6 Sections
· Overview of MS PowerPoint: Basic & Advance features are discussed in this section
· Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Design: slide and section design, working with slide zoom, master slide, etc.
· Working with images and illustrations: shapes and 3D models, creating icons, drawing tools, tables, charts, etc.
· Transitions: subtle transition, exciting transition, dynamic transition, etc.
· Animation: entrance, emphasis, exit and motion path animation, advance animation, effect, timing, etc.
· Screen and Slide recording: adding voice-over to presentation, screen and slide recording, exporting to videos, etc.
After completing this course, you will:
Have a solid understanding of how to work efficiently in PowerPoint without wasting time and effort
Be able to produce top-quality slides and presentations (including videos)
Be able to get high-quality images and illustrations to design an interactive presentation
Gain complete control of the animations you want to create
Create 2D and 3D advertisements using gifs, and videos with PowerPoint transitions and animations
Convert your presentation to MP4 video file format for viewing on any video platform
Create online lectures/tutorials ready to be published on any online platform using PowerPoint screen and slide recording tools
So, what are you waiting for, enroll now and take the next step in mastering Microsoft PowerPoint and becoming PowerPoint Guru!