PowerPoint Level II

Build on your Microsoft PowerPoint fundamentals in this self-paced course. You’ll learn to customize themes, work with the Slide Master and slide layouts, animate objects and charts, use the Morph transition, and add video. Practice bringing charts and tables from Excel into your presentations, adding hyperlinks, and collaborating with comments.

This course is designed for students who already have the skills covered in PowerPoint Level I. In addition to the lessons, you’ll receive lifetime access to a PowerPoint video suite with customized content available on desktop, tablet, or mobile.

What You Will Learn

• Customize themes, colors, fonts, slide backgrounds, and layouts using the Slide Master
• Animate objects and charts, and use the Morph transition
• Add online videos and video files to presentations
• Bring charts and tables from Excel into PowerPoint
• Create hyperlinks, custom shows, and sections to organize presentations
• Collaborate using comments and prepare presentations for sharing and printing

Course Outline

Designing & Customizing PowerPoint Themes

• Using the Slide Master
• The Slide Master vs Slide Layouts

Theme Colors

• Color: Best Practices
• Creating a Color Theme

Theme Fonts

• Fonts: Best Practices
• Creating a Font Theme
• Using Non-Standard Fonts

Slide Backgrounds

• Changing an Individual Slide’s Background
• Changing Slide Backgrounds in the Slide Master

Styling Text & Lists

• Line Spacing Options
• Styling Text & Lists

Slide Layouts

• Customizing Slide Layouts
• Adding a Logo to Every Slide
• Creating & Deleting Slide Layouts

Header & Footer

• Adding Header & Footer Content
• Header & Footer Placeholders on the Slide Master

Saving a Custom PowerPoint Theme

• Creating a Custom PowerPoint Theme
• Setting the Default Theme

Animations

• Transitions vs Animations
• Animating Bullet Points
• Animating Objects
• Entrance, Emphasis, & Exit Animations
• Multiple Animations on One Object
• Ordering Multiple Animations

Animating Charts

• Animating a Bar Chart
• Animating a Line Chart

Morph Transition

• How Morph is Different Than All Other Transitions
• How To Use the Morph Transition

Adding Video

• Adding Online Videos (like YouTube videos)
• Adding Video Files

Charts

• Copying/Pasting Charts From Excel
• Updating the Chart Data
• Formatting Charts & Chart Elements
• Saving a Chart Template

Bringing in Tables from Excel

• Bringing in a Table from Excel with a Link
• Bringing in a Table from Excel with No Link

Links

• Linking to a Website: Adding a Hyperlink
• Creating an Email Link

Quick Access Toolbar

• What is the Quick Access Toolbar?
• Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

Hiding Slides

• Managing Content with Hidden Slides
• Printing With & Without Hidden Slides
• Saving a PDF With & Without Hidden Slides

Custom Shows

• Creating a Custom Show
• Presenting a Custom Show
• Printing a Custom Show

Commenting

• Adding Comments
• Replying to & Resolving Comments

Sections

• Using Sections to Group Content in Large Presentations

This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.