If you need to create a presentation for yourself or someone else then this is the place to start.

Presentations can be delivered on screen, via a video file or live over the web.

• Slide Design - Format your text and slide design
• Bullet Points -  use a variety of different bullet points and sub bullets points
• Shapes - Draw and adapt shapes, align, distribute and order them
• SmartArt diagrams - Create examples of diagrams such as an organisation chart
• Charts - Insert a chart onto slides
• Pictures, Videos,Sounds - Add interesting pictures, videos and sounds
• Animation and Transitions - Add some movement to your presentation
• Tips and Tricks

Getting Started

• Starting & exiting PowerPoint
• The PowerPoint screen
• Different Views 
• Slide/Outline Pane

Working with Text

• Selecting text and place holders
• Editing text
• Text  formatting
• Formatting the placeholder
• Format Painter
• Slide Background
• Creating Title slides
• Creating Bullet slides

Creating a Presentation

• Design templates
• Adding slides
• Deleting slides
• Slide layouts
• Saving presentations
• Opening presentations

Working with Shapes

• Drawing Shapes
• Resizing shapes
• Rotating shapes
• Positioning shapes
• Formatting shapes
• Copying shapes
• Deleting shapes
• Aligning shapes
• Distributing shapes
• Grouping shapes
• Connecting shapes
• Drawing freehand shapes

Tables

• Inserting a table
• Editing a table
• Using spreadsheet data
• Linking to a spreadsheet

Charts

• Creating a chart
• Chart types
• Formatting a chart
• Using spreadsheet data
• Linking to a spreadsheet 

SmartArt

• Inserting a SmartArt diagram
• Modifying a SmartArt diagram
• Creating an organisation chart

Pictures, Photographs, Video & Sounds 

• Adding pictures and using Picture Tools
• Adding video and using Video Tools
• Adding sound and using Sound Tools

Applying Transitions

• Changing how your slide moves from slide to slide

Animations

• Animating Bullets
• Animation Charts 
• Animating shapes and pictures

Printing 

• Adding a slide footer
• Printing handouts 

Running a Slide Show

• Connecting laptop to projector
• Moving forward in the presentation

The course runs from 9:30am through to 4:30pm.
You will learn in a relaxed environment with a small group of up to 8 people. A specialist tutor will guide and encourage you through all the learning necessary to develop your skills and questions are always welcome.

Included with your course
We provide the following with online and training centre delivered courses.

• Course notes
• Certificate of attendance
• 90 days post course support

Online Delivery
A link to the online training platform will be sent before the course, simply click the link and follow the instructions.

• See Virtual / Remote training information for more details
• Contact us if you'd like to test the platform before the morning of the course
• You can be located anywhere in the world with an internet connection and your computer

Our Training Centres
For training courses run at one of our training centres we include.

• Free onsite parking - directions for Norwich
• Lunch at a local restaurant or the training venue and refreshments all day
• Notepad, pen and Polos

• PowerPoint Advanced
• Presentation Skills
• Train the Trainer

Download the full course profile: PowerPoint Introduction