Microsoft PowerPoint 365 (Basic)

Course dates and times

Thursday 24 July 2025

One day: 9.30am to 4.30pm

Course description

The PowerPoint course has everything you need to create successful presentations - word processing, outlining, graphing, drawing and powerful presentation management tools all integrated in one easy-to-use product.

Prerequisites of course

A basic understanding of Microsoft Windows.

Course agenda

Goals and objectives of course

Goals

1. To introduce Microsoft PowerPoint as a presentation package.
2. To develop and improve the user’s understanding of creating a presentation, and the various ways in which it can be modified.
3. To improve the user’s knowledge of using drawing and text tools and make their use of this presentation package more efficient.

Objectives

After reading this manual you will be able to:

1. Open existing presentations, and create new presentations
2. Open PowerPoint and Switch between display modes as required
3. Apply new slide layouts and reapply layouts to current slides
4. Insert text boxes on a slide, and edit the text format
5. Insert clipart graphics and pictures, move and resize them as required
6. Apply and change the background colour or design template of one or all slides
7. Insert or remove bullets within a specified list, and format bullet types
8. Use task panes and smart tags to format slide content accordingly
9. Add borders to text boxes or clipart images
10. Insert shapes from the drawing toolbar and group the shapes with text boxes
11. Insert and modify an organisation chart and a graph within a slide
12. Use the WordArt package to insert and modify text within a slide
13. Print slides using various views
14. Apply custom animation effects to text boxes, clipart images and pictures within slides
15. Add transition effects to slides
16. Use the slide master view to insert a picture and slide numbers throughout a presentation
17. Use Help functions and spell checker within PowerPoint
18. Close PowerPoint.

You will complete all of these using Microsoft PowerPoint.

Cost of course

One full day course: £195