PowerPoint Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365)
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to create, edit, and share professional-looking presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365).
You don't have to be a designer to create a great-looking presentation. Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) to quickly create, edit, and share professional-looking presentations. In this training course, Jess Stratton shows how to get started with PowerPoint templates and themes or build a new presentation from scratch. She explains how to change the slide layout; add and edit text, images, charts, video, and animation; format slides for consistency; and add speaker notes and comments to ensure a smooth delivery. Plus, discover how to collaborate on changes and share presentations with others. By the end of the course, you'll know how to use the PowerPoint tools and follow a few simple design rules to draw attention to your message and deliver a presentation that shines.
You don't have to be a designer to create a great-looking presentation. Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) to quickly create, edit, and share professional-looking presentations. In this training course, Jess Stratton shows how to get started with PowerPoint templates and themes or build a new presentation from scratch. She explains how to change the slide layout; add and edit text, images, charts, video, and animation; format slides for consistency; and add speaker notes and comments to ensure a smooth delivery. Plus, discover how to collaborate on changes and share presentations with others. By the end of the course, you'll know how to use the PowerPoint tools and follow a few simple design rules to draw attention to your message and deliver a presentation that shines.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Deliver a powerful message with a powerful presentation
- Check what version of PowerPoint you're using
- Using the exercise files
- Start quickly with a theme or template
- Use the QuickStarter outline tool
- Create and save a new presentation
- Add, remove, and rearrange slides
- Change the slide layout
- Change the slide color or background
- Change slides at once with slide masters
- Add your own text boxes
- Use Designer to create professional layouts
- Add images
- Work with shapes
- Format and add effects to objects
- Align objects using the Arrange tool
- Understand object layering
- Group objects and use Format Painter
- Remove the background from pictures
- Merge and group shapes
- Crop and convert images and icons
- Create and format charts
- Use SmartArt to create diagrams
- Add and format video
- Add and work with audio files
- Add animation to objects and text
- Add slide transitions
- Use Morph to create animation
- Use Zoom to create animation
- Add speaker notes
- Rehearse with timings and Presenter Coach
- Share and collaborate on a presentation
- View previous revisions
- Use Presenter view to run the show
- Run unattended slideshows
- Save a custom theme
- Save a presentation as a template
- Record and narrate a presentation
- Export as a video file
- Email or export as a PDF or JPEG
- Challenge: Make a quote stand out
- Solution: Make a quote stand out
- Challenge: Recreate a slide
- Solution: Recreate a slide
- Challenge: Give a slide a modern facelift
- Solution: Give a slide a modern facelift
- Learn the art of design
Taught by
Jess Stratton
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