PowerPoint Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365)

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.

Introduction

• Deliver a powerful message with a powerful presentation
• Check what version of PowerPoint you're using
• Using the exercise files

1. Get Started Quickly

• Start quickly with a theme or template
• Use the QuickStarter outline tool
• Create and save a new presentation

2. Work with Slides

• 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

3. Images and Shapes

• 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

4. Add Diagrams and Charts

• Create and format charts
• Use SmartArt to create diagrams

5. Add Video, Audio, and Animation to Slides

• 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

6. Collaborate and Prepare

• Add speaker notes
• Rehearse with timings and Presenter Coach
• Share and collaborate on a presentation
• View previous revisions

7. Deliver the Presentation

• Use Presenter view to run the show
• Run unattended slideshows

8. Reuse the Presentation

• 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

9. PowerPoint Challenges

• 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

Conclusion

• Learn the art of design