Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint Training (PPT365.2)

This course teaches advanced Microsoft PowerPoint features, equipping your team with the skills to create impactful and professional presentations. Designed for those who already have a basic understanding of PowerPoint, this course covers advanced features that can help take your presentations to the next level. You'll gain hands-on experience with themes, slide masters, animations, SmartArt, multimedia, and more, perfect for enhancing your company's presentations.

We start with Customizing Presentations, where you will learn to apply themes, format backgrounds, and add headers and footers. This section also covers the techniques for adding background images and concludes with practical exercises to personalize your presentation further.

The course continues with Presentation Masters, introducing the use of slide masters for consistent formatting. Topics include working with slide layouts, formatting slide masters, adding watermarks, and inserting slide numbers. You'll also learn to modify notes and handout masters and perform exercises to master these skills.

In the Working with Special Effects section, you'll explore advanced animation techniques. This includes animating bullets, using the animation painter, and implementing motion paths. You’ll also learn to animate charts and apply slide transitions, finishing with exercises to practice applying special effects to your presentations.

Moving on to Using SmartArt, you’ll discover how to insert, modify, resize, and reposition SmartArt objects. You'll learn to insert text into SmartArt, add shapes, and ungroup SmartArt objects, along with exercises to solidify your understanding of SmartArt functionalities.

The Multimedia lesson covers creating and editing photo albums, inserting sounds and videos, and editing media clips. You’ll engage in exercises to add multimedia elements effectively to your presentations, enhancing the overall appeal.

In Setting up the Slide Show, you'll learn about custom slide shows, creating hyperlinks, and adding action buttons. Topics include using features like Zoom, rehearsing timings, annotating presentations, and an exercise on recording slide shows to help you prepare for delivering presentations seamlessly.

The Outlines and Slides section will guide you through exporting handouts and outlines to Word, saving presentations as outlines, and saving slides as graphics. Practical exercises will help reinforce these skills, making it easy to distribute your presentation content in various formats.

Managing multiple presentations is addressed in the Managing Multiple Presentations lesson. You’ll learn to merge, view, and track changes across presentations, add comments, and engage in exercises to review changes effectively using PowerPoint's tracking features.

The course concludes with Finalizing Presentations, teaching you to inspect presentations, encrypt them, and embed fonts. You'll also learn to save presentations in PDF format, compress pictures, and mark presentations as final, ensuring your presentations are polished and secure before sharing.

By the end of this Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint Training, you’ll have developed the skills needed to create sophisticated, dynamic presentations. You’ll be adept at utilizing advanced features and techniques to enhance your presentations, making your training sessions or client meetings more engaging and effective.

PowerPoint Version: This course primarily targets PowerPoint 365 and PowerPoint 2021; however, we draw attention to features that are not supported in earlier versions of PowerPoint, and point out alternative options, when available.