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PowerPoint Essentials

PowerPoint Essentials

Participants will learn to create, edit, and enhance slideshow presentations to create professional-looking sales presentations, employee training, instructional materials, and kiosk slideshows. Learners will gain a fundamental understanding of the PowerPoint environment and the correct use of key features of this application.

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Everything you need to teach a one-day workshop for PowerPoint Essentials:

  • Training Manuals
  • PowerPoint Slides
  • Instructor's Guide
  • Quick Reference Job Aids
  • Icebreakers, Activities,
     & Exercise Files
  • Pre-Assignments,
    Pre-/Post-Assessments
  • Promotional Advertorials
  • Lesson Plans with Flip Chart Notes


Also available: e-learning, and cloud-based LMS.

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PowerPoint Essentials Course Outline:

Module One: Create and manage presentations
  • Create a presentation
    • Create a new presentation
    • Create a presentation based on a template
    • Import Word document outlines
  • Insert and format slides
    • Insert specific slide layouts
    • Duplicate existing slides
    • Hide and unhide slides
    • Delete slides
    • Apply a different slide layout
    • Modify individual slide backgrounds
    • Insert slide headers, footers, and page numbers
  • Modify slides, handouts, and notes
    • Change the slide master theme or background
    • Modify slide master content
    • Create a slide layout
    • Modify a slide layout
    • Modify the handout master
    • Modify the notes master
  • Order and group slides
    • Create sections
    • Modify slide order
    • Rename sections
  • Change presentation options and views
    • Change slide size
    • Change views of a presentation
    • Set file properties
  • Configure a presentation for print
    • Print all or part of a presentation
    • Print notes pages; print handouts
    • Print in color, gray scale, or black and white
  • Configure and present a slide show
    • Create custom slide shows
    • Configure slide show options
    • Rehearse slide show timing
    • Present a slide show by using Presenter View


Module Two: Insert and Format Text, Shapes, and Images
  • Insert and format text
    • Insert text on a slide
    • Apply formatting and styles to text
    • Apply WordArt styles to text
    • Format text in multiple columns
    • Create bulleted and numbered lists
    • Insert hyperlinks
  • Insert and Format Shapes and Text Boxes
    • Insert or replace shapes
    • Insert text boxes, resize shapes and text boxes
    • Format shapes and text boxes
    • Apply styles to shapes and text boxes
  • Insert and format images
    • Insert images
    • Resize and crop images
    • Apply styles and effects
  • Order and group objects
    • Order objects
    • Align objects
    • Group objects
    • Display alignment tools


Module Three: Insert Tables, Charts, SmartArt, and Media
  • Insert and Format Tables
    • Create a table
    • Insert and delete table rows and columns
      • Apply table styles
    • Import a table
  • Insert and Format Charts
    • Create a chart
    • Import a chart
    • Change the Chart Type
    • Add a legend to a chart
    • Change the chart style of a chart
  • Insert and Format SmartArt Graphics
    • Create SmartArt graphics
    • Convert lists to SmartArt graphics
    • Add shapes to SmartArt graphics
    • Reorder shapes in SmartArt graphics
    • Change the color of SmartArt graphics
  • Insert and manage media
    • Insert audio and video clips
    • Configure media playback options
    • Adjust media window size
    • Set the video start and stop time
    • Set media timing options

 


Module Four: Apply transitions and animations

  • Apply slide transitions
    • Insert Slide Transitions
    • Set transition effect options
  • Animate Slide Content
    • Apply animations to objects
    • Apply animations to text
    • Set animation effect options
    • Set animation paths
  • Set Timing for Transitions and Animations
    • Set transition effect duration
    • Configure transition start and finish options
    • Reorder animations on a slide

 


Module Five: Manage Multiple Presentations

  • Merge Content From Multiple Presentations
    • Insert slides from another presentation
    • compare two presentations
    • insert comments, review comments
  • Finalize Presentations
    • Protect a presentation
    • Inspect a presentation
    • Proof a presentation
    • Preserve presentation content
    • Export presentations to other formats

Other Course Kits Available:

  1. Accountability in the Workplace
  2. Administrative Office Procedures
  3. Administrative Support
  4. Adult Learning - Mental Skills
  5. Adult Learning - Physical Skills
  6. Anger Management
  7. Appreciative Inquiry
  8. Archiving and Records Management
  9. Attention Management
  10. Being a Likeable Boss
  11. Body Language Basics
  12. Budgets and Financial Reports
  13. Building Confidence and Assertiveness
  14. Business Acumen
  15. Business Ethics
  16. Business Etiquette
  17. Business Succession Planning
  18. Business Writing
  19. Call Center Training
  20. Change Management
  21. Civility in the Workplace
  22. Coaching and Mentoring
  23. Coaching Salespeople
  24. Collaborative Business Writing
  25. Communication Strategies
  26. Conducting Annual Employee Reviews
  27. Conflict Resolution
  28. Contact Center Training
  29. Contract Management
  30. Creating a Great Webinar
  31. Creative Problem Solving
  32. Creativity: Thinking Outside the Box
  33. Crisis Management
  34. Critical Thinking
  35. Customer Service
  36. Customer Support
  37. Cyber Security
  38. Delivering Constructive Criticism
  39. Developing a Lunch and Learn
  40. Developing Corporate Behavior
  41. Developing Creativity
  42. Developing Emotional Intelligence
  43. Developing New Managers
  44. Digital Citizenship
  45. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  46. Employee Motivation
  47. Employee Onboarding
  48. Employee Recruitment
  49. Employee Termination Processes
  50. Entrepreneurship
  51. Event Planning
  52. Executive and Personal Assistants
  53. Facilitation Skills
  54. Generation Gaps
  55. Goal Setting and Getting Things Done
  56. Handling a Difficult Customer
  57. Health and Wellness at Work
  58. High Performance Teams Inside the Company
  59. High Performance Teams Remote Workforce
  60. Hiring Strategies
  61. Human Resource Management
  62. Improving Mindfulness
  63. Improving Self-Awareness
  64. In Person Sales
  65. Increasing Your Happiness
  66. Internet Marketing Fundamentals
  67. Interpersonal Skills
  68. Job Search Skills
  69. Knowledge Management
  70. Leadership and Influence
  71. Leadership Development for Women
  72. Lean Six Sigma
  73. Life Coaching Essentials
  74. Manager Management
  75. Managing Personal Finances
  76. Managing Workplace Anxiety
  77. Managing Workplace Harassment
  78. Marketing Basics
  79. Measuring Results From Training
  80. Media and Public Relations
  81. Meeting Management
  82. Middle Manager
  83. Millennial Onboarding
  84. mLearning Essentials
  85. Motivating Your Sales Team
  86. Multi-Level Marketing
  87. Negotiation Skills
  88. Networking Outside the Company
  89. Networking Within the Company
  90. Office Health and Safety
  91. Office Politics For Managers
  92. Organizational Skills
  93. Overcoming Sales Objections
  94. Performance Management
  95. Personal Branding
  96. Personal Productivity
  97. Practical Bookkeeping
  98. Presentation Skills
  99. Project Management
  100. Proposal Writing
  101. Prospecting and Lead Generation
  102. Public Speaking
  103. Recognizing Employee Excellence
  104. Respect in the Workplace
  105. Responsibility in the Workplace
  106. Risk Assessment and Management
  107. Safety in the Workplace
  108. Sales Fundamentals
  109. Self-Leadership
  110. Sensitivity Training
  111. Servant Leadership
  112. Social Intelligence
  113. Social Learning
  114. Social Media In The Workplace
  115. Social Media Marketing
  116. Stress Management
  117. Supervising Others
  118. Supply Chain Management
  119. Taking Initiative
  120. Talent Management
  121. Team Building For Managers
  122. Team Building Through Chemistry
  123. Teamwork and Team Building
  124. Telephone Etiquette
  125. Telework And Telecommuting
  126. Ten Soft Skills You Need
  127. The Cloud and Business
  128. Time Management
  129. Top 10 Sales Secrets
  130. Trade Show Staff Training
  131. Train-The-Trainer
  132. Trust Building and Resilience Development
  133. Unconscious Bias
  134. Universal Safety Practices
  135. Virtual Team Building and Management
  136. Work-Life Balance
  137. Workplace Bullying
  138. Workplace Harassment
  139. Workplace Violence