PowerPoint Basic

Audience:

You will benefit most from this course if you want to accomplish basic workplace tasks in PowerPoint 2016, or if you want to have a solid foundation for continuing on to master PowerPoint. If you intend to take a Microsoft Office exam for PowerPoint, this course is a good place to start your preparation, but you will also need to complete the Level 2 course to be fully prepared for either exam.

Prerequisites:

The course assumes you know how to use a computer, and that you're familiar with Microsoft Windows. It does not assume that you've used a different version of PowerPoint or any other presentation program before.

Description:

PowerPoint 2016 Level 1 provides the basic concepts and skills that you need to start being productive with Microsoft PowerPoint 2016: How to create, navigate, format, and customize PowerPoint presentations. This course and the Level 2 course map to the objectives of the Microsoft Office exams for PowerPoint 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.

Outline:

Lesson 1: Fundamentals

• Topic A: Exploring the PowerPoint environment

Lesson 2: Creating a presentation

• Topic A Creating a presentation
• Topic B: Creating and modifying slide content

Lesson 3: Formatting

• Topic A: Working with slide masters and layouts
• Topic B: Formatting slides and text

Lesson 4: Working with shapes and images

• Topic A: Creating and formatting shapes
• Topic B: Working with images

Lesson 5: Working with charts and tables

• Topic A: Working with charts
• Topic B: Working with tables

Lesson 6: Customization

• Topic A: Slide transitions
• Topic B: Additional text options
• Topic C: Printing