PowerPoint For Beginners - Create Professional Slides Easily

This beginners course is designed to help you get started with PowerPoint by taking you through many widely used slide concepts. Here is a summary of the content we will cover.

Before we start creating slide content, let's take a quick look at the PowerPoint interface. I will cover the basics of how to navigate between slides, edit the content and play the slide show.

Now let's create a simple title slide from scratch. We will cover text formatting and alignment and how to format the slide background.

Building this agenda slide will help you understand slide layouts, the slide master and choosing a colour theme. We will also investigate the stock photo & SmartArt libraries.

Here we will format a text list and cover the basics of alignment, distribution and text margins. The format painter will allow you to format multiple items quickly and consistently.

Next we will move away from plain text lists by using shapes to create text panels which add clarity and impact to help you convey your message.

I will show you how to crop and resize a photo from the stock library and combine it with text. I will cover the Eyedropper tool and show you the importance of maintaining clarity.

We will look at the various chart types, look at how to edit the chart data and how to customize and improve the look of the chart.

Here we will create a team slide with multiple photos and show you how to crop and resize to create a consistent, professional result.

Tables can be used for many layout tasks in PowerPoint. Here we will compare two products and cover the various size, margin and border settings.

Here we look at the various ways of inserting video clips onto your slides. We look at the various sizing, formatting and playback options.

We will use icons to add simple visual representations of text content on this slide. We will look at different styling options and layouts to add interest to your content.

I will show you how to make professional looking diagrams quickly and easily using SmartArt.

Finally, I will also show you how to re-order you slides, re-use your slides from other presentations, copy and paste between presentations, and add timings and slide transitions.

Congratulations on finishing on my PowerPoint For Beginners course. I hope you can now understand the basics of PowerPoint and can apply the skills learnt to create quality presentations in PowerPoint. Please get in touch with me at alan@lomer.co.uk to tell me how you found the course. I welcome any feedback and would love hear from you.