Microsoft PowerPoint 2021/365 for Absolute Beginners

Master Microsoft PowerPoint 2021/365 and create modern and stunning PowerPoint presentations from scratch, plus more!

What you'll learn:
Creating visually stunning presentations that meet best practice guidelines
Improving efficiency with keyboard shortcuts and the Quick Access Toolbar
Working with PowerPoint templates and applying slide layouts to new or existing slides
Working with images, icons, video, text, shapes, and audio files
Correctly selecting, aligning, and grouping objects on a slide
Working with animations, transitions, and motion paths
Inserting and editing charts, diagrams, and tables
Creating motion video backgrounds
Inserting screenshots and recording/narrating presentations
Working with the Slide Master to make universal changes
Incorporating third-party add-ins into PowerPoint
Preparing a presentation for delivery by adding speaker notes, header and footer, and comments
Using Presenter View to deliver a presentation
Exporting, sharing, and printing a presentation

Requirements:
Microsoft PowerPoint 2021/365 desktop version for Windows installed and ready to use on your computer.
Basic knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint is helpful but not required. This course is suitable for absolute beginners

Description:
***Exercise and demo files included***

Do you need to add some visual impact to your next pitch? Well, look no further, as this course can show you how to do just that.

Microsoft PowerPoint remains, by far, to be the most popular presentation program in the world as it allows users to create, edit, and show illustrative presentations with the help of attention-grabbing slides. With this in-depth PowerPoint 2021/365 course, start creating fun and visually impressive slide decks from scratch and beat the Death by PowerPoint syndrome!

Everything you need to learn about the software is here. We start with the basics and explore the essential PowerPoint functionalities such as templates, slide layouts, themes, backgrounds, shapes, images, and text before moving on to more advanced skills such as animation, transitions, diagrams, charts, tables, master slides, and more.

We’ll get you through a slide workshop, where you’ll learn to create slides from scratch and build knowledge as you go. Also get acquainted with PowerPoint 2021’s new functionalities: the eyedropper, slide zoom, summary zoom, the morph transition, and advanced morph. We’ll even show you some keyboard shortcuts so you can work more efficiently.

This course is designed to invite learners of all levels to see PowerPoint in a new light and encourage them to unleash their creativity to create dynamic, modern presentations.

What you’ll learn from this course:

Creating visually stunning presentations that meet best practice guidelines
Finding free, high-quality resources like images, icons, fonts, and videos
Improving efficiency with keyboard shortcuts and the Quick Access Toolbar
Opening, closing, and saving presentations
Working with PowerPoint templates
Applying slide layouts to new or existing slides
Duplicating, arranging, copying, and pasting slides and objects
Working with images, icons, video, text, shapes, and audio files
Correctly selecting, aligning, and grouping objects on a slide
Working with animations, transitions, and motion paths
Creating summary pages using slide and summary zoom
Inserting and editing charts, diagrams, and tables
Inserting hyperlinks to other slides, external websites, and mail addresses
Creating motion video backgrounds
Inserting screenshots and recording/narrating presentations
Working with the Slide Master to make universal changes
Incorporating third-party add-ins into PowerPoint
Preparing a presentation for delivery by adding speaker notes, header and footer, and comments
Setting up a custom slide show and rehearsing timings
Using Presenter View to deliver a presentation
Exporting, sharing, and printing a presentation.

This course includes:
10+ hours of video tutorials
98 individual video lectures
Course and exercise files to follow along
Certificate of completion

Who this course is for:
Users new to Microsoft PowerPoint 2021 and those upgrading from previous software versions
Anyone who wants to learn how to give effective presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint

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