CPD Certified

MS PowerPoint 365 - Introduction

This introductory MS PowerPoint course is for anyone who needs to understand how PowerPoint works. Suitable for beginners. 

By the end of this course you will be able to 

  • open and close presentations
  • zoom in and out and navigate around
  • move, copy and delete slides and work with different file formats
  • choose and modify slide layouts and change the background to slides
  • apply themes and use sections. 
  • manipulate text, format text effects, change the size and type of fonts and spell check and print presentation and lastly
  • select different output formats. 
This course also covers the desktop and web versions.

Estimated Course duration is 3 hours.. Each lesson takes on average 3-5 minutes to complete.


Course Content

Getting Started

PowerPoint Environment
The Ribbon
Customising the Ribbon
Backstage View
Status Bar
Opening and Closing Presentations
Navigating Between Slides
PowerPoint View
Quick Access Toolbar
Using the Zoom Control
Getting Help
Using Smart Lookup

Creating Presentations

Creating Presentations
Placeholders Explained
Resizing and Moving Placeholders
Slide Orientation
Inserting New Slides
Moving Slides
Copying Slides
Deleting Slides
Saving Presentations
Presentation Templates
Recovering Presentations
File Formats
Running Slide Shows
Presenter View

Formatting Slides

Choosing Slide Layouts
Modifying Slide Layouts
Changing Slide Backgrounds
Applying Themes
Using Sections
Headers and Footers

Manipulating Text

Selecting Text
Cut, Copy and Paste
Mini Toolbar
Finding and Replacing Text
Deleting Text
Using Undo and Redo

Text Formatting

Font Type and Size
Text Effects
Live Preview
Changing Case
Clearing Text Formatting

Proofing and Printing

Spell Checking
Selecting Output Formats
Printing Presentations