In today's professional environment, you're regularly called upon to deliver training sessions, briefings, product demonstrations, and persuasive presentations. Often, these must be created with minimal preparation time, presented at multiple locations, and adapted for diverse audiences. Many presentations also contain proprietary or sensitive information requiring protection and restricted distribution. Given these competing demands, organizing your message, delivering it on schedule to the intended audience, ensuring security, and maintaining engagement becomes a formidable challenge. You must make your content compelling, educate your audience effectively, and create a memorable experience. Fortunately, Microsoft PowerPoint 365, 2019, and 2016 provide comprehensive capabilities to address these requirements, allowing you to craft professional presentations efficiently without consuming excessive time and effort.
Version Compatibility Notice
This course is designed for users of PowerPoint 365, 2019, and 2016 versions, with instruction delivered using PowerPoint 2019. These versions share nearly identical functionality from an end-user perspective, with only minor interface variations. Our experienced instructors are proficient with all three versions and will quickly indicate any small differences in the user interface. Learners using any of these versions will find the course environment fully compatible with their software.
What You Will Accomplish:
In this course, you will master advanced capabilities and tools within PowerPoint to develop and deliver compelling, engaging presentations.
You will be able to:
- Modify and customize design templates for your brand or organization.
- Use digital ink tools to draw custom elements and annotations.
- Incorporate tables for organizing information.
- Integrate charts for data visualization.
- Work with audio and video content.
- Create sophisticated transitions and animation effects.
- Complete and prepare presentations for delivery.
- Customize slide navigation and user experience.
- Protect presentations and distribute them securely.
Intended Audience:
This course is intended for participants who have fundamental PowerPoint knowledge and seek to leverage advanced features related to accessibility, security, collaboration, and distribution of presentations.
Prerequisites for Success:
To succeed in this course, you should have foundational experience creating, editing, and presenting multimedia presentations in PowerPoint. If you need to develop this baseline knowledge, consider completing the PowerPoint Introduction course first.
Detailed Course Content and Topics
Lesson 1: Customizing Design Templates
- Topic A: Edit Slide Masters and Slide Layouts
- Topic B: Edit the Notes Master and the Handout Master
- Topic C: Add and Customize Headers and Footers
Lesson 2: Using Ink to Hand-Draw Elements
- Topic A: Draw Custom Objects and Shapes
- Topic B: Create and Write Math Equations
Lesson 3: Adding Tables
- Topic A: Create Tables with Custom Dimensions
- Topic B: Format and Style Tables
- Topic C: Insert Tables Copied from Microsoft Office Applications
Lesson 4: Adding Charts
- Topic A: Create Charts from Data
- Topic B: Format and Customize Charts
- Topic C: Insert Charts Exported from Microsoft Excel
Lesson 5: Working with Media
- Topic A: Add Audio Files to Presentations
- Topic B: Add Video Files to Presentations
- Topic C: Add Screen Recording Content
Lesson 6: Building Advanced Transitions and Animations
- Topic A: Apply the Morph Transition Effect
- Topic B: Create and Customize Animation Effects
Lesson 7: Finalizing a Presentation
- Topic A: Collaborate on Presentation with Others
- Topic B: Annotate Slides During Presentation
- Topic C: Record Presentations with Narration
- Topic D: Configure Slide Show Parameters
Lesson 8: Customizing Presentation Navigation
- Topic A: Organize Slides into Sections
- Topic B: Create and Insert Hyperlinks
- Topic C: Design a Custom Slide Show Sequence
Lesson 9: Securing and Distributing a Presentation
- Topic A: Secure Presentations with Passwords and Protection
- Topic B: Create Video Versions or Package on CD
Appendix A: Mapping Course Content to PowerPoint Associate (Office 365 and Office 2019); Exam MO-300
Appendix B: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2019 Keyboard Shortcuts Reference
