Microsoft PowerPoint: Intermediate / Advanced
PowerPoint Training Series | Level 2
Course Details
Duration: 2 days (9 am – 4 pm)
Microsoft® PowerPoint® Versions: 2010 | 2013 | 2016 | 2019 | 365 (Windows)
Delivery Methods: Instructor-led classroom (ILC) | Instructor-led virtual classroom (VC)
Course Dates: August 18/19, 2020 (Virtual) | View schedule 
Course Fee: $495 CDN person person (virtual classroom), $545 CDN per person (bring your own device) or $595 CDN per person + HST (Avantix Learning provides device)*
Custom training: This course may be delivered at your site or ours as an instructor-led or virtual classroom solution. Contact us at info@avantixlearning.ca for more information including savings for custom group training.
Note: Public scheduled courses are delivered as live instructor-led classroom training or virtual classroom training (as indicated). Bring your own device rates apply to live classroom courses.
Course Overview
Make your PowerPoint presentations stand out and learn lots of time-saving strategies during this hands-on course. Students will create presentations using outlines, built-in and custom themes, custom masters and templates. Images, drawing objects, SmartArt, tables and charts will be inserted on slides and formatted in various ways. Many different types of animations and transitions will be applied and participants will run slide shows using different techniques. Videos, sounds and hyperlinks will also be added to presentations to bring them to the next level. Throughout this course, the instructor will include numerous tips, tricks and shortcuts. Each student will also receive a full course manual.
Prerequisite: Microsoft PowerPoint: Introduction or equivalent knowledge and skills.
Location and timing: Public scheduled courses are held in downtown Toronto and run from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time).
Related training: View all Microsoft PowerPoint courses >
INCLUDED IN THIS COURSE
- Comprehensive course manual
- Keyboard shortcuts quick reference
- Sample and exercise files (new samples added frequently)
- 5+ professionally designed templates
- Refreshments (for classes conducted in Avantix Learning classrooms)
- Certificate of completion
- Follow-up email support
Course Topics
Key PowerPoint Concepts
- Quickly navigating between PowerPoint’s different views
- PowerPoint best practices
- Rearranging a presentation in the Slide Sorter and Normal View
- Creating slides with different layouts
- Working with outlines
- Reapplying layouts
- Navigating and selecting using keyboard shortcuts
Customizing PowerPoint
- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar and adding custom buttons
- Recommended buttons
- Setting important PowerPoint options
Working with Themes
- Understanding theme components
- Applying themes to presentations
- Using font, color, effect and overall themes
- Understanding the difference between themes and templates
- Importing a theme from another presentation or template
- Creating and saving custom font, color or overall themes
Creating and Editing Slide Masters and Layouts
- Editing the slide master and layouts in the Slide Master View
- Changing slide master or layout backgrounds
- Adding footers, dates, slide numbers and logos on the slide master or layouts
- Creating custom slide layouts in the Slide Master View
- Preserving the slide master (and why to preserve)
- Importing masters from other presentations or templates
- Avoiding rogue layouts
Inserting and Formatting Images
- Inserting and resizing images proportionally
- Nudging images using keyboard shortcuts
- Cropping images and controlling image placement
- Adjusting picture brightness and contrast
- Applying a different color to a picture
- Blurring images
- Removing backgrounds from images in different ways
- Combining effects to focus attention
- Making an image transparent
- Reducing file size by compressing images
Creating Shapes, SmartArt and WordArt
- Drawing, resizing and formatting shapes in PowerPoint
- Duplicating shapes using shortcuts
- Using shortcuts to copy formatting to one or more shapes
- Inserting SmartArt to create cycle diagrams, Venn diagrams and organization charts
- Formatting SmartArt objects
- Creating different text effects with WordArt
- BONUS EXTRAS: Applying a spotlight and other tricks to focus on part of an image or slide area by combining drawing objects and animations
Displaying Information in Tables
- Inserting and formatting tables
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Resizing rows and columns
- Applying table styles and other formatting
- Importing Excel worksheets into a slide as a table or an object
Visualizing Data using Charts
- Inserting a chart on a PowerPoint slide
- Changing chart type
- Editing a chart’s datasheet and returning to PowerPoint
- Understanding color in charts
- Applying different formats to chart elements
- Using tips and tricks when working with charts
- Reusing chart formatting
Animating Text, Pictures, Shapes, SmartArt and Charts
- Adding entrance, exit and emphasis animation effects to text, pictures and shapes
- Adding motion path animations
- Setting effect options
- Animating multiple objects and adding multiple animations
- Removing animations
- Animating charts and strategies for chart animation issues
- BONUS EXTRA: Quickly copying animations from one object to another
Inserting, Formatting and Managing Audio and Video
- Inserting video and sound into presentations
- Controlling playback settings of video and audio
- Embedding vs linking videos and audio
- Trimming video and audio files
- Changing the brightness, contrast and color of videos
- Selecting a starting frame for a video
- Adding and removing bookmarks in video and audio objects
- Playing videos and sounds from a bookmarked location
- BONUS EXTRA: Inserting text to appear at specific times over videos during a slide show
Adding Interactivity with Hyperlinks
- Inserting hyperlinks to other slides, presentations, web sites or other files such as an Excel worksheet
- Using different types of hyperlinks
- Editing and formatting hyperlinks
- Adding hyperlinks on masters and layouts
- Creating a main menu slide with hyperlinks
Importing Slides and Content
- Importing slides from other PowerPoint presentations in different ways
- Benefits of reusing vs copying slides
- Importing an outline from Microsoft Word and creating presentations automatically
- Dealing with formatting issues when importing from Microsoft Word
Running Slide Shows Efficiently
- Running slide shows and using tips and tricks to control the show
- Jumping to a specific slide during a slide show
- Applying transition effects that appear during a slide show
- Controlling timing
Running Custom Shows
- Creating different custom shows for multiple audiences
- Running a custom show using different strategies
- Updating shows
Register Now for a public course at our downtown Toronto location at 1 Yonge Street, Suite 1801 (Toronto Star Building), Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Do you need more information? Contact us!
To request this page in an alternate format, contact our staff.
*Prices subject to change.
Copyright 2020 Avantix® Learning Inc.
Custom training
Register now for a public scheduled course or contact us to discuss custom on-site and off-site training options
Related courses
Microsoft PowerPoint: Introduction
Microsoft PowerPoint: Design for Non-Designers
You may like
Change Line Style, Thickness or Color of Table or Cell Borders in PowerPoint
You can change the formatting of a table border or the borders of multiple table cells in PowerPoint by changing the line style, thickness (weight) or color. Different borders can be applied to cells in the same table. For example, you could apply a thick line to header cells and a thin line to the cells in the last row of a table.
How to Rotate Objects in PowerPoint (4 Ways)
You can rotate objects in PowerPoint by dragging the rotation handle, entering an exact rotation amount or by using keyboard shortcuts. To rotate an object means to turn it around its center. Shapes, images and other objects can be rotated in Normal View or Slide Master View.
How to Compress Images in PowerPoint to Reduce File Size
There are many strategies you can use to compress images in PowerPoint presentations to reduce file size. It’s common to use built-in compression features in PowerPoint to make large files smaller but you can also reduce image size before you insert pictures on your slides.
How to Blur Text on a PowerPoint Slide
Blur is an artistic effect that you can apply to a picture in PowerPoint. However, artistic effects cannot be applied to text boxes or text placeholders. If you want to blur text in PowerPoint, you’ll need to cut the text object and then paste it back into PowerPoint as a picture. You will then be able to blur the text.
How to Apply or Remove Superscript or Subscript in PowerPoint
You can easily apply superscript or subscript to letters, numbers or symbols in PowerPoint. It’s also simple to turn off or remove superscript or subscript. To apply these formats, you can use the Font dialog box or keyboard shortcuts.
You may also like
How to Delete a Pivot Table in Excel
A pivot table can be deleted in an Excel workbook in several ways. You can delete a pivot table, convert a pivot table to values or clear data and customizations from a pivot table to reset it. When a pivot table is created from source data in a workbook,
How to Change Commas to Decimal Points and Vice Versa in Excel (5 Ways)
Depending on your country or region, Excel may display decimal points or dots instead of commas for larger numbers. The decimal point (.) or comma (,) is used as the group separator in different regions in the world. You can change commas to decimal points or dots or vice versa in your Excel workbook temporarily or permanently.
How to Group by Month and Year in a Pivot Table in Excel
You can group by month, year or other date period in a pivot table in Excel. One option is to group by date periods in a pivot table using the Grouping feature. Alternatively, you can also create calculations in source data to extract the month name and the year from a date field and use the fields in your pivot table.
Microsoft, the Microsoft logo, Microsoft Office and related Microsoft applications and logos are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in Canada, US and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of the registered owners.
Avantix Learning | 1 Yonge Street, Suite 1801 (Toronto Star Building), Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5E 1W7 | info@avantixlearning.ca