Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 (PPT201)

This course offers an extensive exploration of Microsoft PowerPoint 2019, perfect for companies looking to enhance their presentations through advanced tools and features. Whether you’re looking to train an entire team or an individual member seeking to refine their skills, this course ensures a comprehensive understanding of PowerPoint's capabilities, from customizing themes to managing multiple presentations.

You’ll start the course by learning about Customizing Presentations. This includes applying and customizing themes, setting default themes, and working with background styles. You’ll also explore adding footers, controlling page numbers, arranging, and printing sections. These lessons set the foundation for creating visually-appealing and organized presentations.

Next, we cover Presentation Masters. Here, you’ll work with the Slide Master, create and format slide layouts, and add elements like watermarks and slide numbers. You’ll also modify notes and handout masters, ensuring that your presentations maintain a consistent and professional look.

In the segment on Working with Special Effects, you’ll animate text and objects, explore motion paths, and utilize the Animation Painter. You'll also learn to set animation timing and animate charts, bringing a dynamic and engaging touch to your presentations.

We then introduce Using SmartArt, a feature that helps you visualize complex information. You’ll insert, modify, and resize SmartArt graphics, as well as format text and add shapes. These skills are essential for creating impactful and clear visual representations of data and processes.

The Multimedia portion of the course guides you through creating photo albums, adding sounds and videos, and editing media clips. Whether you're inserting a YouTube video or customizing a photo album, these lessons enhance your presentations with rich multimedia elements.

Next, you’ll learn about Setting up the Slide Show. You'll set up custom shows, create hyperlinks, add action buttons, and use rehearse timings. These skills will optimize your presentations for effective delivery and audience engagement.

In Outlines and Slides, you’ll discover how to export notes and handouts to Word, save presentations as outlines, and save slides as graphics. These features are useful for sharing and repurposing your presentation content in various formats.

We’ll then move on to Managing Multiple Presentations. This involves merging presentations, reusing slides, and tracking changes. You’ll learn to manage comments and review changes, ensuring smooth collaboration and version control within your team.

The course wraps up with Sharing and Securing a Presentation. You’ll learn to share presentations with remote audiences, embed fonts, and inspect presentations for metadata. Additional lessons on using comments, packaging for CD, and encrypting presentations ensure your content is secure and accessible to your intended audience.

By the end of this course, you’ll have mastered the advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2019, enabling you to create sophisticated and interactive presentations. You'll be equipped to enhance your company’s communication and training efforts, producing professional presentations that captivate and inform your audience.