Microsoft PowerPoint is a practical, hands-on course designed to teach learners how to create professional, engaging, and visually appealing presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. Whether you are a student, teacher, business professional, or complete beginner, this course will provide the essential skills needed to create, edit, format, and deliver effective presentations with confidence.
Throughout the course, learners will explore the PowerPoint interface, create and manage presentations, work with slides and layouts, insert images and multimedia, apply themes and designs, create charts and diagrams, and use animations and transitions to enhance presentations. Students will also learn presentation best practices and how to deliver presentations effectively.
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Welcome
Introduction
What is PowerPoint
The start screen
A guided tour of the window
Four ways to look at the same file
How the ribbon is organised
The File tab: everything about the file
Saving your work properly
Where did my file go?
Practice: make a file and keep it
Recap: the three shortcuts worth learning
What is already on a slide: placeholders
Adding a slide, and choosing its shape
The five layouts that cover almost everything
Moving, copying and deleting slides
Outline view: the fastest way to draft
Sections: chapters inside your deck
Running your slideshow
Presenting when there are two screens
Practice: five slides and a show
Chapter 1 recap
Introduction
Three different things you can click
The Font group, button by button
How big is big enough?
Bullets, numbers and levels
Spacing and alignment
How much text is too much
Format Painter: copy the look, not the words
Practice: cut your slides in half
Recap: readable text in three rules
What a theme actually changes
Applying a theme, and its variants
Making the theme yours: colours and fonts
Widescreen or the old square shape?
Designer: a second opinion, free
The Slide Master: change it once
What is worth changing in the master
Slide numbers, dates and footers
Practice: dress your deck
Chapter 2 recap
Introduction
Three ways to get a picture onto a slide
Resizing without wrecking it
Cropping: show less, say more
Styles, borders and removing the background
Stacking, aligning and grouping
Alt text, and pictures you are allowed to use
Practice: illustrate two slides
Recap: when a picture is working
Drawing a shape
Making a shape look right
Icons and arrows
Turning bullets into a diagram
Which diagram for which idea
When to build the diagram yourself
Practice: one diagram of your own
Chapter 3 recap
Introduction
Table, chart, or just say the number?
Building a table
A table people can actually read
Building a chart
Three chart types cover almost everything
A chart is finished when you have removed enough
Practice: one slide of numbers
Recap: the question to ask of every chart
Putting a video on a slide
Trimming, and the still that shows first
Sound, narration and screen recording
Transitions: how one slide becomes the next
Morph: the one clever transition
Why it will not play, and what to do
Practice: add motion, sparingly
Chapter 4 recap
Introduction
Transition or animation?
Four kinds of animation
Applying one, and the Animation Pane
When does it happen? Start and timing
Revealing a list one line at a time
Helpful animation and the other kind
Links: jumping where you need to be
Practice: one build that helps
Recap: animation in three rules
Notes that actually help
Presenter View: the screen only you see
Rehearsing properly
Printing: three quite different things
Getting it to other people: PDF, video, links
Making it work for everyone
Presentation day
The showcase: present your project
Where to go from here
Chapter 5 recap
