PowerPoint Training Class
PowerPoint Class
This one-day Microsoft PowerPoint training class covers many topics to help you quickly get up and running with PowerPoint. Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint and the rich functionality it offers to create presentations with an impact. You will learn to use outlines, create slides from existing Microsoft Word documents, establish the timing of presentations, as well as add sound, animation, and video to your presentations. You will also learn design guidelines for creating effective presentations.
What you learn in this PowerPoint class
- Essential skills for creating presentations and using PowerPoint
- Applying themes and styles to keep consistent designs
- Including tables and charts
- Working with graphic elements
- Using the drawing tools
- Background graphics
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Ways to attend this PowerPoint Course
- Live Online classes from your office or home as a regularly scheduled small group class.
- Live, in-person regularly scheduled PowerPoint classes in Boston or Philadelphia with a live instructor in the same classroom.
- Private training customized to your specific needs delivered in-person or online. Call 781-376-6044 or complete the Private PowerPoint Training form for more information.
- Corporate PowerPoint Training for your group or team.
Why learn PowerPoint at AGI
- Hands-on learning: Learn PowerPoint by doing, using our proven method to gain skills quickly.
- Proven curriculum: We have delivered PowerPoint training to thousands.
- Our expert instructors are skilled educators and the best in class with PowerPoint.
- Small class sizes: receive personalized attention with ten or fewer participants per class.
- Repeat for free: If you need a refresher or miss a class day, retake the class at no cost.
- Learn using proven methods: We have been teaching PowerPoint courses for 20 years.
All PowerPoint classes include
Free retake
Detailed curriculum
Live instructor
Flexible rescheduling
Certificate of Completion
Small class sizes
Course recording
Reviews of our PowerPoint Training Class
PowerPoint Training Class - Introduction rating: 5 stars from 1 reviewers
"Kim was an amazing instructor. When I expressed that I had specific questions, she made sure to spend extra time on that section and walked me through it. She was fun, personable and a great instructor. I would definitely take another class with her and would highly recommend AGI." - Diane L
See all reviews for PowerPoint coursesSkills you learn in this PowerPoint course
- Effectively use PowerPoint to create and edit presentations
- Apply themes in PowerPoint to work efficiently and create consistent designs.
- Add and edit tables and charts to effectively communicate data
- Aligning text within columns and rows to create clean designs
- Work with styles PowerPoint to keep text consistent and save tim
- Changing chart types to clearly show data
- Working with graphic elements to add visuals to your presentations
- Apply background graphics to apply brand standards
- Grouping elements to keep related content together
- Creating diagrams to showcase flow charts and organization structure
PowerPoint Training Class - Course Dates
All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.
Microsoft PowerPoint training class topics
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
PowerPoint course instructors
AGI instructors are PowerPoint professionals and skilled teachers. You'll learn from a live PowerPoint professional that brings years of experience that will help you learn PowerPoint quickly and easily.
Jennifer S.
MS, Human Factors Information Design
BA, Commercial Art
UXQB Certfied
Adjunct Professor, Boston University
Grace
MS, Information Design
BA, Digital Communications
Adjunct Professor, St. Olaf
Custom and private PowerPoint classes
This PowerPoint course is available as a private class. Curriculum can be customized for your specific needs. PowerPoint classes can be delivered at your location, online, or in our classrooms. For more information, call 781-376-6044 to speak with a training consultant or contact us.
We recommend that you have the Microsoft PowerPoint app before starting this class so that you can practice techniques following the course. A computer with PowerPoint is provided for class use if taking this course in our classrooms.
Exceptional PowerPoint course materials
Our proprietary curriculum has been proven effective in teaching [category short name] to thousands of professionals over the last 20+ years. This PowerPoint course includes a copy of our PowerPoint Design curriculum with many projects and exercises.
Repeat for free
If you need a refresher or miss a day of class, you can repeat the PowerPoint class at no additional cost for one year.
PowerPoint FAQ
Do I receive a PowerPoint certificate?
AGI provides a certificate upon course completion, which can be shared on LinkedIn and verified digitally on the AGI website.
How many students are in a PowerPoint class?
AGI limits its class sizes so that you receive personalized attention. Classes are limited to no more than 10 participants.
Can I get specific PowerPoint questions answered in the class?
Yes, as a live class, you can ask the instructor questions about how you will be using PowerPoint.
Does this PowerPoint class include job placement support?
AGI provides job support only when PowerPoint classes are taken as part of a longer-term certificate program, where AGI has a dedicated career counselor assigned to each certificate student.
Is this PowerPoint class for Mac or Windows?
You can attend this PowerPoint class using a Mac or Windows computer. The application itself has nearly identical functionality for both platforms. If attending in our classrooms, a computer will be provided using the operating system of your choice. At the time of registration we ask which operating system you use so that we can best help you to learn PowerPoint on your own computer.