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PowerPoint Course Online April 28, 2025
PowerPoint training class
$495.00
This PowerPoint training course teaches you to quickly and easily create effective and exciting presentations. In this PowerPoint course, you will discover how to create new presentations, create and use templates, apply styles, use the various viewing modes, and work efficiently.
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
Why PowerPoint classes at AGI are the best option for you
- Hands-on learning: Learn PowerPoint quickly with our proven teaching methods.
- Exceptional curriculum: AGI has delivered PowerPoint training to thousands over 25 years.
- Expert instructors: Our instructors are PowerPoint experts and skilled educators.
- Small class sizes: Receive personalized attention with 10 or fewer participants per class.
- Repeat for Free: If you need a refresher or miss a class day, retake the PowerPoint class at no cost.