PowerPoint foundations
Basic to Intermediate PowerPoint
Create clear, consistent, and professional presentations using PowerPoint’s essential design, formatting, visual, and delivery tools.
Build polished presentations with confidence.
For professionals who need a dependable foundation in slide creation, visual organization, formatting, and presentation delivery.
Navigate PowerPoint and organize presentation content.
Apply consistent layouts, themes, and formatting.
Work effectively with text, images, shapes, charts, and tables.
Prepare and deliver clearer professional presentations.
Course overview
A practical, instructor-led program with guided exercises and workplace examples. Open a topic to see the coverage.
1. PowerPoint Efficiency Basics
- Understanding PowerPoint Views
- Normal View
2. Working With Slides at a Structural Level
- Getting Started with Slide Master
- Why Slide Master Matters
3. Adding & Editing PowerPoint Objects
- Text Handling
- Text placeholders vs text boxes
4. Tables & Charts
- Creating Clean, Structured Tables
- Creating Simple Charts
5. Introduction to Animations & Transitions
- Types of Animations (Entrance/Emphasis/Exit/Motion Paths)
- Basic use of Animation Pane
6. Practical Skills & Mini-Projects
- Building a short presentation using Slide Master
- Designing a basic infographic slide
Full course outline
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- 1. PowerPoint Efficiency Basics
- Understanding PowerPoint Views
- Normal View
- Outline View
- Slide Sorter
- Using Zoom, Gridlines & Guides
- Managing Sections for Large Decks
- 2. Working With Slides at a Structural Level
- Getting Started with Slide Master
- Why Slide Master Matters
- Editing Master Themes
- Creating and Modifying Layouts
- Consistency Techniques
- Automatic text formatting basics
- Troubleshooting basic font inconsistencies
- 3. Adding & Editing PowerPoint Objects
- Text Handling
- Text placeholders vs text boxes
- Maintaining consistent text formatting
- Images
- Crop, Resize, Compress
- Screenshot Tool
- Remove Background basics
- Maintaining image clarity
- Using the Selection Pane to manage overlapping objects
- Inserting Audio and Video (basic controls)
- 4. Tables & Charts
- Creating Clean, Structured Tables
- Creating Simple Charts
- Bringing Charts from Excel (linked vs embedded)
- Ensuring chart consistency with theme colors
- 5. Introduction to Animations & Transitions
- Types of Animations (Entrance/Emphasis/Exit/Motion Paths)
- Basic use of Animation Pane
- Animation timing (on-click, after previous, with previous)
- Applying smooth slide transitions (professional vs distracting)
- 6. Practical Skills & Mini-Projects
- Building a short presentation using Slide Master
- Designing a basic infographic slide
- Creating simple multi-section presentations for reports or proposals