PowerPoint Basics Live

**IMPORTANT** This course is scheduled for two sessions on non-consecutive days: Mon Nov 14th & Wed Nov 16th from 2:30p-4:30p Pacific (5:30p-7:30p Eastern).

PowerPoint Basics is a live, online, instructor-led course taught during two, 2:00 hour sessions. It provides learners with a practical, functional understanding of the PowerPoint software. We begin by learning about effective storytelling structure and work towards understanding the core tools that support presentation creation. The course will cover:

• Apply a theme – the impact on color palette, fonts & slide layout
• Add style to text boxes
• Create sections
• Insert pictures
• Styles, adjustments, borders, effects, crop, transparency, compression
• Overlay images
• Work with shapes
• Format, re-size, rotate, color, gradient
• Arrange and re-order multiple shapes
• Align text boxes, pictures, and shapes
• Configure PPT
• Edit the slide master
• Add headers & footers including date, time, etc.
• Incorporate SmartArt graphics
• Create tables
• Design, layout, modify, import from Excel
• Visually represent using charts
• Design, modify, data source, embed an Excel file
• Employ audio & video
• Introduction to transitions & animations
• Design tips & tricks

You bring the computer (Windows or Mac), software (Office 2016, 2019 or 365), Zoom account (free), and a desire to learn. We'll bring the teaching and deliver the results.

The cost of this course is $299. We offer discounts for active-duty military, first responders, and seniors. If you are interested in registering AT THE SAME TIME for more than one course from our PowerPoint suite (PPT Fundamentals, Basics, Intermediate), please contact us to request a single-use multi-class discount code.

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PPT Fundamentals, PPT Basics, and PPT Intermediate comprise the My Software Tutor suite of courses that will provide you with practical functionality to use this software. MST also offers a similar companion suite of Excel courses. For both software programs, the Fundamentals course is one session :90 minutes long. The Basics and Intermediate courses are two sessions each x 2:00 hours. If you are not sure which level is right for you, visit our PPT course selector page or our Excel course selector page.