A one-day workshop
This one-day workshop is designed to enhance your PowerPoint skills to achieve dynamic presentations that work with you, making it easier to deliver a polished, professional presentation. You will learn advanced PowerPoint skills that will save you time and elevate your presentations.
learning objectives
- Create custom shows to personalise presentations for individual clients
- Make the Slide Master work collectively with slide layouts and themes
- Seamlessly interact with external content using links
- Work with advanced animations and transitions, and video/audio tools
Expert trainer
The course is led by our expert trainer, Mike Linton, who has over 25 years’ experience in delivering software training to different cohorts of learners from a variety of organisations. With an easy-going nature and using a variety of learning methods, Mike aims to create a fun and interactive learning environment.
Session outline
1. Themes and Masters
- Add a Design theme to a presentation
- Make changes to the Slide Master
- Delete layouts from the slide master
- Saving a slide master with themes as a template
2. Advanced graphics and diagrams
- Drawing, duplicating and resizing shapes
- Grouping, aligning and stacking shapes and graphics
- Using SmartArt for diagrams and organisation charts
3. Graphs and charts
- Inserting and formatting a chart
- Linking an Excel chart to a slide
- Linking Excel tables to a slide
- Animating charts
4. Video, Custom animation and Hyperlinks
- Adding and editing video
- Animating pictures and drawings
- Hyperlink to another Slide or Website
- Compressing and optimising media
5. Presenting
- Reuse slides
- Hide slides
- Rehearsing timings
- Enabling a presentation to run continuously
