PowerPoint Intermediate - Designing for Presentation

Take your PowerPoint skills to the next level by learning to make more complex, interactive, and engaging presentations.

Class Duration: 4 hours

Are your PowerPoint presentations lacking the polish or punch you’d like them to have? Our Intermediate PowerPoint training class lets you take your PowerPoint skills to the next level, enabling you to make more complex, interactive, and engaging presentations. This course will give you the ability to create presentations that will be more visually appealing and impactful when giving a presentation. The course provides ample interactive activity, allowing you to be sure that you have mastered each lesson. Our experienced educators will be with you every step of the way, leading you to a thorough understanding of the material, and answering all of your questions.

Training Class Goal

Students exiting this class will learn the skills to create PowerPoint content for presentations. They will learn how to create consistent themes and color schemes, customize images with many unique tricks, and develop slides that will get the most audience retention. Students will understand more advanced slide formatting techniques and will learn to better use the master slide. They will learn to use more advanced techniques in working with pictures and SmartArt. More advanced presentation tools, provided in PowerPoint, will also be covered.

Prerequisites

Students entering the Intermediate PowerPoint training course should have a general familiarity with Microsoft PowerPoint, including adding slides, editing content, and working with graphics. Students should also feel comfortable working in Microsoft Word.

Creating PowerPoint Slides for Impactful Presentations

The 5 step process to develop fast and professional PowerPoint presentations
How to create dynamic slides for presentations
How to create slides that increase audience retention and recall of content
Best practices for powerful PowerPoint presentations

Slide Master and Theme Formatting

Formatting the Slide Master
Changing theme colors
Creating custom font themes
Changing slide layouts
Themes and colors for consistent and polished presentations

Pictures and Images

The proper balance of images and text on a slide
The best types of images to use
Where to find images
Inserting pictures
Resizing and moving images
Cropping images

Pictures Special Effects

Expanding parts of images to create “blank space”
Making collages of images that look consistent
Modifying pictures with color and effects
Adjusting image shading and color to best display text
Using Blur effects for slide backgrounds
Rotating images

SmartArt

Creating SmartArt displays of information
Formatting SmartArt with color and shapes

Additional Tools

Using the mini slide-show window when editing
Working in Slide Sorter View

Interactive Components

Adding interactions with action buttons
Creating hyperlinks with images

Completing the Presentation

Running the presentation
Hiding slides
Creating Custom Shows
Audience handouts – avoiding the slide deck print!
Additional presentation tools
Tips and tools for best running presentations
Additional presentation techniques

Learn to go beyond the basics to build more complex and engaging presentations with AdvantEdge Training’s Intermediate PowerPoint training class. Our courses are designed specifically for companies and their employees.