# PowerPoint Level I (Self-Paced)

Canonical URL: <https://www.nobledesktop.com/classes/powerpoint-level-i-self-paced>

## Overview

Get a solid foundation in Microsoft PowerPoint with this self-paced course. You’ll learn to create dynamic presentations, incorporating text, images, shapes, transitions, and layered objects. Explore how to work with tables, charts, and prepare your slides for professional presentations.

This course is perfect for beginners or anyone looking to enhance their existing PowerPoint skills. Focus on both functionality and efficiency, with a toolkit of techniques that will significantly improve your presentation creation process. Plus, gain lifetime access to a custom video suite to reinforce what you’ve learned, available on desktop, tablet, or mobile.

## What you'll learn

- Create presentations from templates and customize layouts, themes, and content structure
- Edit text, bullets, and numbered lists using Outline View and formatting tools
- Insert and enhance photos, SmartArt, and shapes with effects, cropping, and alignment options
- Create and format tables, add connector lines, and import Excel charts to display data
- Apply transitions, manage presenter notes, and utilize tools for live or virtual presentations
- Save, print, and export presentations to PDF, with professional-use options

## Curriculum

#### 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

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $249