PowerPoint Beginner Course
(4.88 out of 5) 545 Student Reviews
About the Course
Designed for beginners, this one-day course takes learners through all the essentials of Microsoft PowerPoint with useful shortcuts to streamline workflow. Learn how to create basic presentations with text, then enhance your PowerPoint show with themes and graphics elements designed using drawing tools, or using the SmartArt feature. Get your show moving with hyperlinks and transitions and then organise your show for presentation or printing. The course consists of hands-on exercises designed to impart real-world skills and knowledge by having participants work through relevant examples to creating PowerPoint presentations.
Who should do this course?
This introductory course is suitable for people who want to use PowerPoint to create and edit presentations.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- ▪ Start and navigate around PowerPoint
- ▪ Create a presentation
- ▪ Insert and modify clip art in your presentation
- ▪ Use various drawing objects to create simple drawings
- ▪ Work with text in PowerPoint
- ▪ Work with shapes
- ▪ Work with SmartArt to insert graphics, text and shapes
- ▪ Work with slide layouts
- ▪ Navigate slide shows in PowerPoint
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint is required; however, participants should have basic mouse and keyboard skills, and a general understanding of personal computers and Windows files and folders structure.
Course Details
$396 incl GST
- Duration:1 Days
- Max. Class Size:10
- Avg. Class Size:5
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Study Mode:
Classroom Online Live
- Level:Beginner
- CPD Hours:6 hours
- Course Times: Classroom: 9.00am - 5.00pm approx(Local Time) Online Live: 9.00am - 5.00pm approx(AEST or AEDT)
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Course Dates
Sydney Class Dates
Level 11, 32 Walker Street, North Sydney , NSW 2060
17 Nov 25 | Mon | Classroom |
24 Nov 25 | Mon | Online Live |
12 Jan 26 | Mon | Online Live |
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01 Jun 26 | Mon | Online Live |
Melbourne Class Dates
Level 12, 379 Collins Street, Melbourne , VIC 3000
30 Oct 25 | Thu | Classroom |
24 Nov 25 | Mon | Online Live |
08 Dec 25 | Mon | Classroom |
12 Jan 26 | Mon | Online Live |
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07 May 26 | Thu | Online Live |
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Brisbane Class Dates
All courses facilitated in, Online Live format , QLD
24 Nov 25 | Mon | Online Live |
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Canberra Class Dates
All courses facilitated in, Online Live format , ACT
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Adelaide Class Dates
All courses facilitated in, Online Live format , SA
24 Nov 25 | Mon | Online Live |
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Perth Class Dates
All courses facilitated in, Online Live format , WA
24 Nov 25 | Mon | Online Live |
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Course Units
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Unit 1: Getting to Know PowerPoint
- Starting PowerPoint From the Desktop
- Understanding the Start Screen
- Creating a New Blank Presentation
- The PowerPoint Screen
- How Microsoft PowerPoint Works
- Using the Ribbon
- Using Ribbon KeyTips
- Showing and Collapsing the Ribbon
- Understanding Backstage View
- Accessing Backstage View
- Using Shortcut Menus
- Understanding Dialog Boxes
- Launching Dialog Boxes
- Understanding the Quick Access Toolbar
- Adding Commands to the QAT
- Understanding the Status Bar
- Customising the Status Bar
- Exiting Safely From PowerPoint
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Unit 2: Your First Presentation
- Creating Presentations in PowerPoint
- Creating a Presentation
- Applying Theme Variants
- The Save As Place
- The Save As Dialog Box
- Typing Text Into a Slide
- Inserting New Slides
- Typing Text Using the Outline Pane
- Applying Slide Transitions
- Saving a Presentation
- Previewing a Slide Show
- Closing a Presentation
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Unit 3: Working With Presentations
- The Open Place
- The Open Dialog Box
- Opening a Presentation
- Opening Multiple Presentations
- Switching Between Open Presentations
- Understanding Presentation Views
- Changing Presentation Views
- Navigating a Presentation
- Using the Zoom Tool
- Opening a Recent Presentation
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Unit 4: Working With Text
- Editing Text
- Checking Spelling
- Understanding Font Formatting
- Applying Font Formatting
- Applying Paragraph Formatting
- Changing Bullet and Numbering Styles
- Moving and Resizing Placeholders
- Applying WordArt to Text
- Converting Text to SmartArt
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Unit 5: Slide Layouts
- Understanding Slide Layouts
- Inserting a Title Slide
- Inserting a Title and Content Slide
- Inserting a Section Header Slide
- Inserting a Table
- Inserting a Picture With Caption Slide
- Inserting a Chart
- Changing the Slide Layout
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Unit 6: SmartArt
- Understanding SmartArt
- Inserting a SmartArt Graphic
- Inserting Text Into SmartArt
- Adding Shapes Below
- Adding Shapes Above
- Adding Shapes Before and After
- Adding an Assistant
- Promoting and Demoting Shapes
- Switching SmartArt Right to Left
- Resizing SmartArt
- Changing the SmartArt Layout
- Applying a Colour Scheme
- Applying a SmartArt Style
- Deleting SmartArt Shapes
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Unit 7: Shapes
- Drawing Shapes
- Resizing Shapes
- Editing Shapes
- Positioning Shapes
- Arranging Shapes
- Merging Shapes
- Formatting Shapes
- Using the Eyedropper
- Copying Shapes
- Aligning Shapes Using the Ribbon
- Aligning Objects Using Smart Guides
- Inserting and Formatting Text
- Connecting Shapes
- Grouping Shapes
- Rotating Shapes
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Unit 8: Preparing for Presentations
- Using Slide Sorter View
- Reusing Slides
- Adding Sections
- Adding Notes to Your Slides
- Slide Numbers
- About Hyperlinks
- Creating an Internal Hyperlink
- Creating a Hyperlink to Another Presentation
- Creating a Hyperlink to Another Application
- Keyboard Shortcuts for Navigating Slide Shows
- Using Resume Reading
- Presenting a Slide Show
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Unit 9: Printing Your Presentation
- Understanding Printing
- Previewing Slides
- Printing Slides
- Printing Handouts
- Printing Notes Pages
- Printing the Outline
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Unit 10: Getting Help
- Understanding How Help Works
- Using Tell Me
- Accessing the Help Window
- Navigating the Help Window
- Using Google to Get Help
- Printing a Help Topic
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Unit 11: Brilliant Presentations
- Planning a Presentation
- Make It Readable
- The Four Pillars of Great Design
- Perfect Presentation Layouts
- Presenting Polished Presentations
- Presentation Methods and Hardware
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Student Reviews
This was so helpful! Cath was amazing, she went at a perfect speed to make sure we were all there with her. She made sure each step was clear before moving forward and had great speaking presence and engaging topics. I feel much more confident creating PowerPoints moving forward and highly value this course as a way to expand my knowledge. She made notes and made time to cover any and all questions and made sure we had everything we need to be successful outside the training. It is clear she is highly experienced and knowledgeable and made a great instructor.
Great course that explained so many tips & features in Power Point. Jill was a very engaging and clever presenter.
The instructor Jill covered lots of topics for Microsoft Power Point - Beginner course with simple and useful and practical presentations. Course contents are easy to follow. Thoroughly enjoyed
This course provided what I expected from a beginner course. I was happy that there were only 3 attendees as we got a bit more time for individual questions relating back to our real life experience.
Thank you again, Chris for your thorough run through of Microsoft PowerPoint for Beginners. We covered a lot, and I learned so many new things that I know I will take with me to the work force. This is my second class with Chris and he was great as usual.
I wanted to take this course to enhance my PowerPoint skills and I learned so much throughout the day. Prior to the course, I had a very basic understanding of PowerPoint, but after doing the course I learned a lot of new things about SmartArt and formatting. Andrew was an excellent trainer and explained things clearly.
Dani provided some great tips and tricks and provided a very well structured day. Maybe a quiz at the end to reinforce learnings?
Absolutely loved this course! Thank you Dani for your patience and warmth. You helped make the course interesting and I can't wait to create a presentation. I really want to do the advanced course now!
Dani really made it very easy to understand the Powerpoint course. I am looking forward to the advanced course.
Cath was a good instructor, she was well spoken and went at a good pace. I've learnt a lot of use full things to use for power point.
The course was well paced, The trainer was very patient and spoke slowly so we could all follow. The class number was small making it easier for all to keep up. I leanrnt a number of things I did not know as a self taught PP user. I did have to concentrate and it is a bit tiring.
Im a very creative person, so i found this course good/fun to refresh my powerpoint knowledge. Also doing advance course.
Chris was fantastic, I learned so much throughout the day which I will be putting into practice back at work. I'll look into another course with Chris as soon as possible!
Chris was very clear to understand and explained each and every section thoroughly. Have gained a lot of information from this sesseion.
This course was a good start to learning Power Point. Chris, the instructor, was patient, helpful and explained things well.
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