About this course
This half-day course focuses on the features of PowerPoint that give your presentation a professional make-over. The aim is to ensure you gain a good grounding in the more advanced skills needed to create and present a professional on-screen presentation.
Please note: We specialise in delivering this course in-house to small groups or individuals. We don’t run scheduled public courses.
Who should attend?
This course is aimed at people who are currently making minor edits to presentations and wish to become fully proficient in using PowerPoint® as an on-screen presentation tool. The course content is designed for a business environment.
This course is for perfect for you if …
- You find yourself spending hours reformatting presentations that are old or belonged to someone else
- Your company has new branding and you need to update your existing presentations
- You are wanting to learn the new features of a new version of PowerPoint
- You prepare presentations for other people, e.g. Sales and Marketing teams, Management
- You want to take your old, boring presentations and give them a professional edge
Prerequisite
You will already have the essential skills needed to open, edit, format, save and print PowerPoint presentations.
Learning objectives
This hands-on course takes you through creating a professionally styled business presentation. This includes working with an existing presentation to apply the company template, modify slide defaults, import slides from existing presentations, work with images, insert diagrams, sound and video, embedding charts and linking charts from Excel. You then apply movement where appropriate. Finally you will learn how to prepare the presentation for delivery to one or several different audiences, print hand-outs and how to take control when running the presentation.
Additional exercises and practice files are supplied for use during the training and for use post-training, allowing you the opportunity to repeat the exercises again in your own time.
By the end of this course, you should be able to confidently:
- Give an existing presentation a make-over using your company template
- Borrow slides from other presentations
- Apply formatting and compression to images
- Add video, sound, graphs, hyperlinks and screen shots
- Use movement to enhance, not distract
- Prepare supporting documents for the audience and presenter
- Setup the presentation for multiple audiences
- Confidently run, pause and restart the presentation
