Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced Course
Take your PowerPoint skills beyond everyday presentations
The Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced course is designed for experienced PowerPoint users who want to create more sophisticated presentations and work more efficiently with advanced features.
Participants will learn how to develop reusable themes and templates, control the appearance of presentations using Slide Master functionality and create more engaging slide shows through animation, multimedia and interactive features.
Create more professional and engaging presentations
The course explores techniques that can help participants improve both the consistency and impact of their presentations. This includes working with advanced charts and SmartArt, incorporating audio and video, creating custom animations and controlling how presentations behave when delivered.
Participants will also explore ways to collaborate on presentations and export content into other formats, including PDF, video and Word.
This course is ideal for regular PowerPoint users who already feel confident creating and editing presentations and want to make greater use of PowerPoint's advanced design, multimedia and presentation features.

Course Schedule
1 day
9:30am - 4:30pm (UK Time)
Online Live
£150 per delegate
Course Aims:
This PowerPoint Advanced course is aimed at people who want to expand their general knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint and to include special slide show effects, multimedia and automation.
Course Prerequisites:
Students who wish to attend this PowerPoint course must have a basic knowledge of PowerPoint and feel comfortable with creating and saving a presentation, adding chart slides and inserting pictures or graphics.
Course Objectives:
On completion of this course delegates will be able to:
- Create a slide master and apply background colour schemes
- Create a template
- Create custom animation and a custom show
- Use links within a PowerPoint slide
- Insert a table
- Import and export data from other applications
- Customise charts and SmartArt graphics
Course Content:
Introduction and Objectives
Using the Outline Tab
- Creating a Bulleted List
- Collapsing & Expanding Slides
- Demoting, Promoting & Moving Text
- Grouping Slides into 'Sections'
Editing Multiple Presentations
- Viewing Multiple Presentations
- Copying Text & Slides Between Presentations
- Copying Slides with Drag & Drop
- Reuse slides from other presentations
Using Tables
- Creating a PowerPoint Table
- Inserting & Editing a Word Table
- Using Table Styles
Customizing Presentations
- Customizing Theme Colours, Fonts and Effects
- Saving & Deleting a Custom Theme
- Creating a Presentation Template
Adding Special Effects
- Animating Text & Objects
- Animation Painter
- Setting Animation Timings
- Animating a Chart and SmartArt
- Dynamic Slide Transition
Exporting Presentations & Slides
- Exporting Presentation Notes, Handouts and Outline to Word
- Saving Slides as Graphic Files
- Saving presentation as PDF and JPEG
- Saving a Presentation as a Video or Packaging to CD
Inserting Sounds & Video
- Embed and Edit Video and Audio
- Editing Video and Audio
- Changing Multimedia Settings
- Recording a presentation
Setting Up the Slide Show
- Setting Automatic Slide Timings
- Setting Up a Continuous Loop
- Rehearsing Slide Transition Timings
- Presenter View
Collaborating on a Presentation
- Comparing Presentations
- Adding Comments to Slides
- Replying to Comments
Editing & Importing Charts
- Custom Chart Formatting
- Adding 'Elements' to a Chart
- Editing Chart Elements
- Creating a Chart Template
- Importing an Excel Chart
- Copying Excel data to create a chart
Using Organization Charts/Diagrams
- Inserting a SmartArt Diagram
- Adding Text and Positions to Shapes
- Formatting Shapes
- Converting a bulleted slide in to a SmartArt diagram
Action Planning
Review of Programme
Public Schedule
Private Virtual Training (Teams / Zoom)
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Private Onsite Training (at your offices)
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Note
All prices exclude VAT at 20%.
VAT registration number: 450 4347 14
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