The complete online training for Microsoft PowerPoint.

Overview

Are you looking to improve your knowledge of PowerPoint 2013? This course is ideal if you're a beginner or want to increase your knowledge. It will take you through the full range of functionality, from beginner level to using the advanced features and applications. 

You will learn how to perform tasks at your own pace by following easy step-by-step actions and complete your training in bitesize chunks. Bookmarking allows you to dip in and out, so you can learn whenever suits you, plus you can jump directly to specific topics of interest quickly and easily.

Details

Using interactive exercises and software simulations, you’ll quickly become familiarised with the PowerPoint 2013 environment and its documents, functions and features.

As you progress through the course, you will try various views of presentations. You will learn to enter text into presentations and insert graphical elements into them, including pictures, shapes, clip art, symbols or even equations. You will try to edit all the inserted objects and move them within or between slides. In case of text, you will apply the WordArt formatting. When inserting new slides into a presentation, you will learn to select a suitable layout of the predefined text placeholders.

In addition you will learn to insert additional objects into the slides of presentations, namely tables, charts, SmartArt graphics, sound and video, and to further edit them. You will learn to organise slides, split them into sections and move them even between presentations. You will examine the presentation themes in details, customising the properties of the previously selected one.

You will learn to add a footer to the slides and customise the slide master. You will also compare two presentations and will take a look at the work with comments. You will learn to set the slides transition and assign animation effects to the different objects on slides. You will adjust the animation settings and set the slide show timing. You will also set the properties of the presented slide show and add speaker notes to the presentation. You will create your custom template and will learn to print a presentation and save it in different file formats.

Modules

The course modules are: 

Create and manage presentations

Includes: new presentations, slide master editing, layouts, backgrounds, footer information on slides, themes, print settings, advanced saving, speaker notes, slide show settings, timing, pesenter view, hints on delivering presentations. 

Insert and format shapes and slides

Includes: manipulation with slides, shapes and editing, presentation sections, advanced objects manipulation. 

Certificate

A learndirect certificate will be emailed to you when you have successfully completed the course.