PowerPoint Beginner Course
(4.84 out of 5) 1077 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
$385 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 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
I got so much of this session, Danielle was an AMAZING teacher - I would love to sit some of her other classes.
Excellent communication prior to course. Great printable training materials to refer to. Jill presented this course thoroughly and very well. Very interactive.
I learned a lot of useful tips on shortcuts, design using Smart Graphics etc. Cath is so patient and has a wonderful teaching style. I can't wait to try these out for myself.
Excellent course and great teacher but my lack of previous experience compared with others held me back somewhat.
Wayne was very patient and informative, learnt so much, a lot of content squeezed into the day and he had no problem staying online to help if we stalled or got lost.
Our instructor Wayne was highly engaging and lovely to spend the day with. He is highly knowledgeable and ran the class very well. He was patient and took the time to make sure everyone was understanding.
Great Insite on tools and functions that I didn't know about. The course has given me greater confidence to build presentations. I look forward to taking part in the next level course.
It was great to have a proactive learning course. Whilst I did know some of the topics, I was able to learn more about Smart Art Design and Chart Design. Instructor was engaging and ran the course at a good pace.
I found this course to be useful and enjoyed learning all the shortcuts. The trainer was very knowledgeable and worked at a great pace.
Catherine was really great and patient with the class's questions, she made sure to stop and ask if anyone needed help or had any questions throughout the course.
Found the short cuts, Eyedropper, shape merging, transformations, adding hyperlinks very helpful. The whole course was very beneficial.
I thoroughly enjoyed this course! The presenter was very knowledgeable and patient and taught us a lot of short cut keys and more efficient and interesting ways of making a PowerPoint presentation.
Chris is a great instructor my third course here and my second with Chris very patient and helpful will recommend top others in my workplace
It was great to be in a classroom and focus on the training and practice each micro skill immediately after it was explained and then repeat the practice to recap
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.
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