Microsoft PowerPoint has long been the industry standard for creating presentations, and this self-paced course is designed to help you use its full range of features effectively. You’ll move through hands-on lessons that introduce essential PowerPoint skills, including creating layouts, adding text, images, shapes, and SmartArt, and organizing information with tables and charts.
As you learn at your own pace, the course explores more advanced tools to elevate your presentations. You’ll learn how to create reusable themes and templates for consistent design, enhance slides with animations and video, and manage large presentations using sections, custom shows, and other productivity features.
What You Will Learn
- Create new presentations at your own pace using appropriate layouts, text formatting, and visual content such as photos, shapes, and SmartArt.
- Design tables and charts and integrate data to clearly communicate complex information.
- Apply transitions and run slide shows, refining presentations for clarity and engagement.
- Build custom themes and templates with branded fonts, colors, and layouts for reusable, consistent design.
- Use animations and video to enhance audience engagement and storytelling.
- Manage large presentations using sections, hidden slides, and custom shows for smooth delivery.
- Collaborate with others through comments and feedback tools within PowerPoint.
- Customize and animate charts and tables, including those imported from Excel, for dynamic data visuals.
This program is available for 60 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 60 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
