The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint

Complete Beginner Guide to PowerPoint by Empricon Value Cloud

Microsoft PowerPoint is the industry-standard software for doing presentations in the world today. It is a user-friendly program with lots of amazing features and functionalities that allows you to easily prepare and conduct your presentation. The wide usage of PowerPoint in the academic and business sector have made knowledge of how to effectively use the programme to be an important skill set that everyone should have. Hence, we have carefully designed this course to take you from a novice to a professional user of PowerPoint.

What You’ll Learn in this course

  • The basic interface of Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Tabs, Ribbons, Groups and Launch buttons
  • Five foundational elements commonly used in a presentation
  • Important tabs in PowerPoint and their functions
  • How to create, edit and manipulate Text, Shapes, Charts, Tables and Media files
  • Difference between Transitions and Animations
  • How to add and edit Transitions
  • Types of Animations and their functions
  • How to add and edit animations
  • How to save and export your presentation file in various formats
  • Handy tips to boost your efficiency
  • How to add a snapshot of your window (Screenshot)
  • Keyboard shortcuts for creating your presentation
  • Slide show shortcuts for conducting your presentation
  • You will also be engaged in an exercise section that involves creating a PowerPoint presentation from scratch

This course includes:

  • 6 HD videos (covering the 5 episodes of the course and an introductory section)
  • A 22-page presentation file that will be used during the course
  • A 5-page exercise file
  • A pdf file with more than 60 PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts
  • A media file and a presentation file for reference during the course

Additional information

  • This course was created using PowerPoint 209, however, if you’re using a 2016, 2013 or 2010 version, you will still be able to easily follow along. On the other hand, if you’re using PowerPoint 2007, there might be a few disparities, but the basic functionalities will still be the same
  • The course is completely downloadable and is about 361MB
  • Free consultation is provided during and after the course

For any questions on this course, feel free to send an email to hello@empricon.com

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