PowerPoint Course in Boston on December 3, 2024

Getting started with PowerPoint

• Understanding the PowerPoint user interface
• The Ribbon and Backstage view
• Choosing a look with the Design tab

Building PowerPoint presentation content

• Building an outline
• Editing slide content
• Formatting inserted images
• Creating notes pages
• Using the Reading view
• Working with text, images, and visual effects
• Simplified text handling
• Inserting images into a PowerPoint presentation
• Adding and editing animations
• Transitions and slide sorter

Using PowerPoint's design tools

• Understanding templates
• Applying themes to a slide show
• Customizing a theme in the Slide Master view

Designing PowerPoint presentations

• Building better slides
• Working with text
• Filling in an existing text area
• Adding and styling text boxes
• Using the Format pane to style and format text
• Aligning text using columns and rows
• Autofit and text boxes
• Styling text with WordArt
• Formatting presentations
• Applying background images and colors

The slide master view and PowerPoint themes

• Editing the Slide Master
• Creating custom slide layouts
• Adding a custom slide layout
• Completing a custom layout
• Customizing a presentation theme
• Changing a theme’s visual scheme
• Creating and applying a custom theme to a PowerPoint presentation

Using tables, charts, and SmartArt

• Giving structure to content
• Transforming text into SmartArt
• Formatting bulleted lists as SmartArt
• Visually editing a flowchart
• Styling a piece of SmartArt
• Piecing together SmartArt

Linking and embedding external data

• Embedding an Excel worksheet
• Editing embedded objects
• Creating a linked object
• Creating a chart from tabular data
• Generating charts in PowerPoint
• Editing individual chart elements
• Linking a chart to external Excel data
• Styling charts and graphs

Adding graphics and multimedia to your presentation

• Beyond bulleted lists and bar graphs
• Using PowerPoint’s drawing tools
• Recoloring and adjusting images
• Cropping an image
• Reordering images
• Adding visual impact with animations
• Creating a crossfade effect
• Creating complex scenes by clustering animations
• Enriching slides with sound effects
• Adding background sounds to a presentation
• Trimming and triggering sound effects
• Adding custom actions to slide objects
• Integrating video into a presentation
• Embedding and formatting video
• Embedding local video
• Media compression and compatibility

Laying out slide elements

• Taking advantage of the grid
• Working with alignment guides
• Grouping and ungrouping elements

Delivering PowerPoint presentations

• Preparing for your presentation
• Setting up the slide show
• Controlling your presentation from the keyboard

Creating custom slide shows & presentation delivery

• Presenting in slide show preview
• Mission control: PowerPoint’s presenter view
• Using speaker notes
• Formatting and printing notes pages
• Designing a printed handout
• Navigating with the slide sorter
• Going to a black or white screen
• Focusing the audience with the Pen tools
• Using the laser pointer and highlighter
• Keeping ink annotations
• Customizing the PowerPoint quick access toolbar

Rehearsing your presentation

• Recording slide and presentation timings
• Recording narration and pointer movements
• Tweaking and removing timings, narration, and laser pointer movements

Delivering PowerPoint presentations online

• Delivering a presentation online
• Embedding your slide show on a web page
• Presentation tips