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PowerPoint basics

Microsoft PowerPoint Power Seminar 1: Basics of working with Microsoft PowerPoint

Target audience: Anyone needing to use PowerPoint for the first time, and wanting to gain a good understanding of the basic concepts of creating a presentation in PowerPoint. This course is designed to give a brief overview of a number of areas – many of which are covered in more detail in the full-length Microsoft PowerPoint training courses.

Creating a presentation

  • Planning and creating a presentation from scratch
  • Using the built-in templates for ideas
  • Saving your presentation

Adding text content

  • Using the Outline view to edit content
  • Entering content directly onto slides
  • Switching to a different slide layout

Adding other content

  • Clip-art, images and movie clips
  • Tables
  • Smart-Art graphics and diagrams

Formatting the presentation

  • Using the design templates and themes
  • Modifying the formatting for a single slide

Creating transition effects and running a presentation

  • Using slide sorter view
  • Applying transition effects to one or more slides
  • Running the presentation and using navigation tools

For more information on how our Power Seminars series works, see the Microsoft Office Power Seminars overview page.