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Microsoft PowerPoint Level I

Lift your PowerPoint presentations with foundational skills in this beginner-friendly course. Learn how to build effective visuals using SmartArt, tables, charts, and more. Boost your professional presentation skills today.

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Class Description

Description

Develop the foundational skills necessary to create professional presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, covering essential techniques such as positioning images, designing shapes, constructing tables, and building charts. You'll begin with a comprehensive introduction to the PowerPoint interface, including how to customize the ribbon toolbar for efficient access to frequently used commands. Next, you'll explore how to incorporate visually appealing elements, including images, SmartArt diagrams, layered and grouped objects, well-designed tables, and professional charts.

Throughout this seven-hour intensive workshop, you'll work through all core PowerPoint skills systematically, progressing from launching and personalizing the application interface through executing presentations with professional delivery. You'll examine each feature in detail, from basic shapes and image insertion to sophisticated animations, transitions, and diagram creation, then learn editing and refinement techniques for your finished presentation. Finally, the course covers presentation delivery best practices and tools, including how to use on-screen annotations, speaker notes, and presenter view to enhance your delivery effectiveness.

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Syllabus

Creating New Presentations

  • Creating a Presentation
  • Choosing a Template/Theme
  • Changing the Template/Theme
  • Adding Slides & Typing in Content

Slide Layouts

  • Choosing a Slide Layout
  • Changing the Slide Layout

Adding Text & Outline View

  • Adding Text
  • Bulleted vs Numbered Lists
  • Adding & Editing Text with Outline View
  • Outline View Keystrokes

Pictures & Graphics

  • Placing Pictures into Placeholders
  • Cropping Photos
  • Sizing Graphics
  • Fixing Stretched/Squished Photos
  • Where to Get Photos
  • Crop to Shape & Aspect Ratio

Adjusting Photos & Graphics

  • Picture Adjustments (such as converting to Black & White)
  • Picture Border & Effects

Layered Objects

  • Layered Object vs Placeholder Content
  • Aligning
  • Evenly Distributing
  • Grouping
  • Reordering Layered Objects

SmartArt

  • Creating SmartArt
  • Adding Text
  • Layouts, Styles, & Shapes
  • Converting Text into SmartArt
  • SmartArt with Picture Placeholders

Shapes & Lines

  • Adding Shapes
  • Styling Shapes
  • Adding Text to Shapes
  • Resizing, Moving, & Rotating Shapes
  • Connector Lines
  • Text Boxes

Tables

  • Creating Tables in PowerPoint
  • Typing in Table Data
  • Designing Tables
  • Table Layout
  • Sizing Tables & Columns/Rows
  • Alignment & Spacing In a Table
  • Adding or Removing Rows/Columns
  • Merging Cells

Copying & Pasting Charts from Excel

  • Importing a Chart from Excel
  • Updating the Chart Data when the Excel File Changes

Transitions

  • Adding Slide Transitions
  • Transition Effect Options & Duration

Proofing & Editing

  • Spell Check
  • Slide Sorter View

Running a Presentation

  • Starting & Stopping a Slide Show
  • Ways to Navigate Slide Shows
  • Tools to Use When Presenting
  • Presenter Notes
  • Presenter View
  • Presenting in Microsoft Teams (PowerPoint Live)
  • Presenter Notes in Zoom

Printing

  • Choosing What Will Go On the Printed Page

Saving a PDF

  • Why Make a PDF?
  • Saving a PDF & Setting Options

Refund Policy

  • Students may cancel up to 11 business days before the class/program start date and receive a refund, less the registration fee (10% of the undiscounted course price).
  • Cancellations within 11 business days are not permitted, but students may reschedule up to 4 business days before the class start date.

For cancellations and reschedules, please email us at [email protected]

Reviews of Classes at NYC Career Centers (686)

(4.5-star rating across 686 reviews)

This class: 4.6 out of 5 from 16 reviews

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Level I

    Very good overview of tools available in program. Teacher was helpful and articulate.
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    it was fun - I really enjoyed doing the presentation! Thanks again!
  • Microsoft PowerPoint Level I

    Class was good and well-rounded. I would have liked more hands-on instruction regarding our finished projects.
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