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For complete beginners looking to get a good working knowledge of the basics.
For complete beginners looking to get a good working knowledge of the basics.
Creating & printing slides
Editing images & videos
Formatting, charting & drawing
Using the different views
Presenting using PowerPoint
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Click on the sections below to see exactly what you cover during this beginners PowerPoint course.
We start this course by getting you comfortable with the PowerPoint window. We show you how the menus and options are structured so that you are happy with finding the various menus and options that you will need when working with your presentation. We also look at where to find information about the current presentation and slide that you are working on.
The key topics trained in this session are:
Having got comfortable with navigating around PowerPoint we now move to creating a new presentation or opening an existing presentation. We also look at the various different views that PowerPoint contains, and how to switch between them.
The key topics trained include:
This session focuses on the right way to plan and template a new presentation that you are creating from scratch. We look at how to plan a new presentation and then how to design your presentation. We then move to how to set up the template for your presentation to ensure that its appearance is consistent. Having discussed templates we look at applying a template to a presentation. Having got our presentation set up with the right template we look at adding text and then how to save the presentation we have set up.
The key topics trained include:
Now that we have got our presentation set up correctly, and using a template for consistency, we look at how you can add text to your slides. We cover how to control your text with placeholders and how to format it for maximum effect using SmartArt and other PowerPoint formatting tools. Next we look at paragraph formatting and ensuring that the presentation of our text is correct.
The key topics trained are:
Slide layouts are simple ways to structure a slide. They have various containers into which you can insert your text, graphics or other content. This session covers all aspects of working with PowerPoint slide layouts. We look at title slides, slides containing pictures and charts and also section dividers amongst other topics.
The key topics trained include:
The ability to insert impactful images to illustrate the points that you want to make is one of the key strengths of PowerPoint. This session covers all aspects of working with images so that you can use yours for maximum effect. We look at cropping images, resizing them, rotating and flipping them. Having got our image just right we then work on getting it in the right place in our presentation.
The key topics trained include:
SmartArt is an extremely powerful feature in PowerPoint. It contains a large number of standard diagrams which allow you to easily present lists, processes, hierarchies and relationships. Where one of these standard templates isn’t quite appropriate for your needs they are often a very good place to start. Inserting a SmartArt template and customising it is often far faster than creating a diagram from scratch. This session covers all aspects of inserting SmartArt into a PowerPoint presentation. It then looks at working with SmartArt to edit it so that it creates exactly the diagram that you are looking for.
The key topics trained include:
Shapes allow you to emphasise certain aspects of your slide or to illustrate relationships between things. Inserting and working with the various shapes that PowerPoint contains gives you greater control over how to illustrate your slides. This session covers all aspects of inserting, positioning and presenting shapes in your presentation for maximum impact.
The key topics include:
The final session of this course covers how to output your completed presentation from PowerPoint. We look at printing your presentation as notes pages, in hand-out format and in outlines as well as printing the slides themselves.
The key topics trained include:
Lucinda is one of our regular PowerPoint trainers. She has been training Microsoft PowerPoint for over 20 years.
She is a certified Microsoft Office trainer, a certified life coach and also works as a teaching assistant working at a primary school one day per week.
Build confidence with real PowerPoint tasks
Develop your skills and learn to efficiently create stunning presentations.
Develop your skills and learn to efficiently create stunning presentations.
Tables, graphs & diagrams
Animations & transitions
Slide masters & templates
Using media & the internet
The basics of slide design
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Click on the sections below to see the full syllabus that this course covers.
The opening session of this course reviews some of the basics of using PowerPoint before introducing some more advanced topics.
This session looks at the techniques to ensure that you set up a new presentation correctly so that it is quick and simple to create and manage going forward.
The ability to use images to demonstrate key points is one of PowerPoint’s key strengths. This session covers all aspects of advanced image management within PowerPoint. It covers how to use PowerPoint to correct and recolour an image as well as applying effects to pictures. It also looks at using screenshots and other images.
The key topics trained include:
Animations can bring a presentation to life, although they should be used carefully. This section will show you how to add animation to your presentation whether it’s text or other objects. It will also show you how to control the timing and path of an animation as well as how to animate SmartArt.
A slide master stores information about the theme and slide layouts of a presentation. They can be reused again and so can save heavy PowerPoint users from recreating them from scratch each time. Understanding Slide Masters includes:
Templates allow presentations to be quickly and consistently produced in PowerPoint. A template is a file that usually includes a background, layouts, fonts, and other design elements. These are combined into a template that creates the basis for an attractive presentation.
Once created, templates can be reused which saves large amounts of time whether they are slide templates that you’ve created yourself or downloaded from other sites. For example, slidehunter.com is one of many sites that offers free PowerPoint templates.
We look at all aspects of creating, customising and controlling a template in this section of the course.
Once you have completed your PowerPoint presentation you will need to present it. PowerPoint obviously makes this very straightforward and offers a number of different ways that you can do this. This session covers creating self-running presentations. It includes how to record a slide and also how to set up a speaker-led presentation.
The key topics trained include:
Having completed your presentation you will want to save it and probably share it as well. We look at saving and recording presentations to cd, PDF and video in this session. We also look at distributing and broadcasting presentations.
This looks at working with objects in other Microsoft Offices packages. We look at how you can easily link elements of your presentation to other Microsoft Office files as well as copying and linking to tables and charts in Excel and Word.
The key topics trained include:
Tables are a very good way to present factual information that is related. This session covers all aspects of working with and presenting tables in PowerPoint. It covers everything from inserting a table to formatting, styling and editing it. It also shows you how to add effects like shadows to the table and how to control the presentation of the data within the table cells.
The key topics trained include:
Charts are an extremely good way to present data. They allow relationships between variables to be very simply demonstrated. This session shows you how to insert a chart into a PowerPoint presentation, and then how to control all elements of that chart. From the chart itself to the data series it presents and how the data is presented, this session shows you how to get your chart looking exactly as you would like it to.
The key topics trained include:
This course assumes that you are already a basic PowerPoint user.
It assumes that you have a working knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint to the level covered in our introduction to PowerPoint training course.
Not sure if this is the right level course for you?
Our PowerPoint course level adviser takes less than 60 seconds to complete.
Alternatively, give us a call, we’d be delighted to help.
Lucinda is one of our regular PowerPoint trainers and has been training Microsoft PowerPoint for over 20 years.
She is a certified Microsoft Office trainer, a certified life coach and also works as a teaching assistant working at a primary school one day per week.
Build confidence with real PowerPoint tasks
Go from complete beginner to an advanced PowerPoint user in 2 days.
Save £55 when you book an introduction and advanced PowerPoint course at the same time.
Go from complete beginner to an advanced PowerPoint user in 2 days.
Save £55 when you book an introduction and advanced PowerPoint course at the same time.
Build confidence with real PowerPoint tasks
Learn how to design your slides for maximum clarity and impact.
Learn how to design your slides for maximum clarity and impact.
Matching a design & audience
Incorporating storytelling
Design rules: images & videos
Using form, space & colour
Best practice: Masters & fonts
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Click the collapsible sections below to see full detals of what is covered in each section of the course.
• Different types of presentations
• Core messaging to use in your presentation
• Using visual metaphors consistent with your messaging
• Structure your presentation for impact
• The importance of storytelling in communication
• How you can build a strong narrative
• Do’s and Don’ts of using images and videos
• Where to find suitable, high-quality media
• Balance
• Emphasis
• Contrast
• Repetition
• Proportion
• Form & Space
• Colour
• Master slides & visual themes
• Typography and fonts
• Diagrams
• Arranging your text
• Margins, grids and placement
• Should you use animations?
• Presenting
This course assumes that you have basic experience of working with Microsoft PowerPoint.
You do not need to be an advanced user to join it. It is assumed you understand PowerPoint to the level taught on our beginners PowerPoint course.
If you’re not sure please call us and we’d be delighted to help.
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If you are unsure which course is most appropriate for you, we’re be very happy to advise you.
Alternatively, we have an online tool that will advise you in under a a minute: PowerPoint Course Level Analyser.
This training course is for complete beginners, and for people who have very limited experience with Microsoft PowerPoint.
You do not need to have any previous experience creating a slide show with PowerPoint, it starts with the basics.
By the end of the course, you will be a capable PowerPoint user and able to:
If you are already a competent user of PowerPoint, this training course is probably not right for you. You should consider our advanced course.
This Microsoft PowerPoint training course is for people who are already comfortable using PowerPoint’s basic features.
It is appropriate for you if you already have a good understanding of this presentation software. This includes things like creating a new presentation from scratch, formatting and adding images and diagrams to it.
By the end of the course, you will be an advanced PowerPoint user and able to:
If you already have a good working knowledge of these parts of PowerPoint, this is not the right course for you.
Our combined PowerPoint course is for people who are complete novices with and need to develop their skills to an advanced level quickly.
This is often taken by people who have moved to a new job role and need an advanced knowledge of PowerPoint. It is the most cost-effective way to take our Introduction and Advanced courses.
This PowerPoint course is for people who want to learn how to design and create engaging PowerPoint presentations.
It is focused on the design and narrative elements of creating stunning PowerPoint presentations.
By the end of the course, you will understand:
Many leaders find this course useful. As they advance through their career, they need to communicate ideas to increasingly large numbers of people effectively. They find that understanding how to create impactful slides is a very effective way to do that.
This course does include some technical elements (for example, master slides) but they are not its focus.
If you are looking for a course focused on the functions of PowerPoint, please look at our Advanced and Beginners courses above.
We run a full schedule of remote courses over Zoom.
We also deliver private courses over Teams, if requested.
