Get started in PowerPoint with this hands-on training. Learn the fundamentals of creating dynamic presentations with step-by-step exercises.
In this beginner PowerPoint course, you'll create and run dynamic presentations; add images, shapes, animations, and layered objects; create tables and charts; prepare the slideshow for a presentation.
This class includes our revolutionary PowerPoint video suite with several hours of premium content. Review the course materials with high-quality video with lifetime access on desktop, tablet or mobile, a $95 value, included free with the course.
What You’ll Learn at a Glance
- Create presentations using the Outline View
- Add images, SmartArt, and shapes
- Work with layered objects
- Insert tables, charts, and animations
- Run a presentation in Presenter View
Course Syllabus
- Introduction
- User Interface
- File Management
- Creating Presentation
- Adding Text Using Outline View
- Adding Slides
- Images
- Getting Images
- Placing Images
- Adjusting/Styling Images
- SmartArt
- Building Diagrams
- Styling Diagrams
- Converting Bullet Lists to SmartArt
- Shapes
- Creating Shapes
- Styling Shapes
- Adding Text to Shapes
- Adjusting Shapes
- Text Boxes
- Connectors
- Layered Objects
- Aligning
- Distributing
- Grouping
- Tables
- Creating Tables
- Designing Tables
- Charts
- Creating Charts
- Designing Charts
- Saving Chart Templates
- Proofing and Editing
- Spell Check
- Using Slide Sorter View
- Printing
- Animation
- Slide Transitions
- Slide Animations
- Running a Presentation
- Starting and Stopping a Presentation
- Presenting to an Audience
- Navigating
- Annotating
- Using Speaker Notes
- Using Presenter View
Learn more about PowerPoint for Business at NYIM Training.
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
Also available in-person in NYC