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Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced Course

Instructor-led · Live online public dates · Private online or onsite for teams
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Duration:
1 day
£150 per delegate
£150 per delegate

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.

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Course Schedule

4
Dec 2026
Duration:

1 day

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9:30am - 4:30pm (UK Time)

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Online Live

Price:
Discounted Price:

£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

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£225 per delegate
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£150 per delegate

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All prices exclude VAT at 20%.

VAT registration number: 450 4347 14

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