Introduction to PowerPoint Course for Beginners UK Wide | On-site and Online

Microsoft Beginners PowerPoint Training Course

This beginners Microsoft PowerPoint training course gives you all your need to start producing effective presentations to share with your colleagues as either live demonstrations, tutorials, publications or broadcasts.

During our PowerPoint Beginners course you will learn the fundamentals of how to create slides, slideshows, slide masters and templates and how to produce media rich presentations with audio and video.

Email us or call 0844 493 3699 to find out more about booking Microsoft PowerPoint training for your team.

For newer versions of Powerpoint we can also cover subjects such as PowerPoint integration with Microsoft 365 and MS Teams and rehearsing your presentation with Presenter Coach.

Microsoft PowerPoint versions available for training courses include: PowerPoint 365, PowerPoint 2021, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 2016 and PowerPoint 2013.

Our expert trainers come to you and can deliver this Microsoft PowerPoint Beginners course at your premises across most regions of mainland UK (including East Midlands and West Midlands, Greater Manchester and the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, Greater London, East Anglia, Bristol area, South East and South West of England etc.), or virtually from anywhere.

Microsoft PowerPoint Beginners Training Course Prerequisites

No previous knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint is needed to attend this introductory essentials PPT course. Learners should be able to navigate their way around Windows 10/11 and have an understanding of opening, closing and saving files and folders.

On-site Microsoft PowerPoint Beginners Courses in the United Kingdom

Our closed courses for Microsoft PowerPoint are delivered as private courses for your learners offering more flexibility than off-the-shelf public courses and topics taught can often be tailored to match your particular learning needs.

Our mobile Microsoft trainers understand that helping their students to work more effectively is not just a business-oriented goal, it is also empowering for the individual students themselves. As such, our trainers are not just educators, they also champions of the software who endeavour to promote enthusiastic adoption of PowerPoint among those they teach. Before the start date they will discuss with you the goals and objectives of the training and those skill-sets that your team need the most whether they are starting as novice, intermediate or more advanced users.

With our on-site Microsoft PowerPoint courses our regional trainers come to your workplace throughout most of mainland UK, bringing the training to you regardless of whether you are in a major city such as London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol or Leeds, or anywhere else. This offers a really cost-effective way to train small groups and entire departments in the comfort of familiar surroundings from the Capital City of London to The Cotswolds, from Hampshire to Northamptonshire, the West Midlands to West Yorkshire, Sussex to South Yorkshire, Norfolk to Northumberland, Lancashire to Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire to Gloucestershire, Bristol to Berkshire, Essex to the East Riding of Yorkshire and everywhere inbetween.

Live Virtual Classroom Beginners PowerPoint Courses for the United Kingdom & Beyond

If you have a group of staff that you would prefer to be tutored remotely rather than having a trainer come out to you these small-group Microsoft PowerPoint courses are also available Online as live virtual, interactive training sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These Online instructor-led courses are taught via MS Teams video conferencing.

Why choose virtual learning? As we are all becoming more used to Online learning and live virtual meetings it has become apparent that the virtual classroom method of delivery has many advantages over traditional face-to-face learning venues.

If you are looking for local PowerPoint training near you, then you can't get any closer to your doorstep than you can with virtual learning.

Our virtual learning Microsoft PowerPoint courses cater for groups of up to ten people and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with your trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is further enhanced by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

Our realtime virtual classroom Microsoft PowerPoint courses are charged out at £550.00 plus VAT per day inclusive up to 5 delegates. Further learners can be added up to a maximum of 10 charged out at £50.00 plus VAT per person per day. Courseware will be provided electronically.

You can find out how to set up Microsoft Teams for a live Online virtual course here (Virtual Learning with MS Teams).

We really ❤ love helping UK organisations to master Microsoft PowerPoint. Our only question is: Will it be yours?

Microsoft Powerpoint Beginners Course FAQs

Our PowerPoint Trainers are:

Specialist educators with a wealth of experience and expertise, proven track records and excellent feedback.

Our Closed PowerPoint Courses are:

Flexible instructor-led courses catering to YOUR specific learning needs and training requirements.

Education is Our Passion:

Over 18,000 students trained across almost every industry, sector and background.

PowerPoint Beginners Training Delivery Method for Closed Courses

• Instructor-led PowerPoint training provided in-person with step-by-step demonstrations, lessons and hands-on exercises.
  
  
• Dynamic and interactive PowerPoint courses with plenty of time for questions and answers.
  
  
• The personal touch: Professional tuition that's tailored to match your team's present knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the PowerPoint functions, features and techniques that your trainee staff, co-workers or employees need the most.
  
  
• Private, corporate PowerPoint training for small group sizes with a maximum of 10 learners on any course.
  
  
• Can be run as a single course, tutorial or workshop; Or as a training rollout bringing whole teams, departments and organisations up to the benchmark level of PowerPoint knowledge that you require.

Beginners Microsoft PowerPoint Course Topics

This Beginners Microsoft PowerPoint course can be combined with the Advanced PowerPoint Course for a two-day step-by-step training programme.

We specialise in delivering flexible training programmes and PPT course topics taught will often vary depending upon your learning requirements and upon the version of the software taught.

• Module 1: Introducing Microsoft PowerPoint
  1. What is Microsoft PowerPoint?
  2. Broadcast, Publish or Present?
  3. Microsoft PowerPoint Course Objectives
     
     
• Module 2: Working with the PowerPoint Screen
  1. Menus, Sub-Menus and Tabs
  2. Common Commands: Clipboard, Slides and Font
  3. Slides Group Menu
  4. Font Group Menu
     
     
• Module 3: Working with PowerPoint Views
  1. Normal View
  2. Slide Sorter View
  3. Notes Page View
  4. Slide Show and Presenter View
  5. Reading View
  6. Master Views
     
     
• Module 4: Creating your first PowerPoint Presentation
  1. Working with Slides
  2. Creating a Blank Presentation Template
  3. The Notes Pane
  4. Creating a Sample Template Presentation
  5. Creating a Template Presentation from Outline View
     
     
• Module 5: Add, Arrange and Delete PowerPoint Slides
  1. Title Slide and Layout
  2. Add a New Slide
  3. Working with Different Slide Layouts
  4. Presentation Layout
  5. Sub-Grouping Slides
  6. Apply a New Layout to an Existing Slide
  7. Duplicate a Slide
  8. Rearrange Slide Order
  9. Delete a Slide
     
     
• Module 6: Enhancing PowerPoint Slides
  1. Understanding Slide Layouts
  2. Using a Standard Layout
  3. Title and Content Layout
  4. Comparison Layout
  5. Formatting the Background Layout
  6. Resetting the Background Layout
     
     
• Module 7: Working with the PowerPoint Slide Master
  1. Slide Master Overview
  2. Create a Second Slide Master
  3. Working with Slide Master Styles
  4. Delete a Slide Master
  5. Changing Default Slide Master Themes
     
     
• Module 8: Insert and Manipulate Text and Graphics in PowerPoint
  1. Bullet Points
  2. Indents and Outdents
  3. Change Slide Layout Style
  4. Working with Content Placeholders
  5. Working with Images
  6. Graphic Media Types
  7. Moving and Resizing Images and ClipArt
  8. Alt text and Intelligent Alt text
     
     
• Module 9: Understanding PowerPoint Objects and Links
  1. Hyperlinks
  2. Objects and Action Buttons
  3. External (Web) Hyperlinks and Internal (Cross-Reference) Hyperlinks
  4. Action Buttons and Action Settings
  5. Using an Action Button to Launch other Applications (Word, Excel etc.)
     
     
• Module 10: Using the PowerPoint Drawing Facility
  1. Drawing Shapes in PowerPoint
  2. Drawing Lines
  3. Drawing Multiple Lines
  4. Lock Drawing Mode
  5. Drawing Curves and Circles
  6. Edit Points
  7. Adding Fill Colours
  8. Removing Fill Colours
  9. Drawing Rectangles and Squares
  10. Re-sizing and Moving Shapes
      
      
• Module 11: Creating an On-Screen Slideshow
  1. Slide Show View
  2. Run a Slide Show
  3. Start from Beginning or Current Slide
  4. Navigation and Adding Annotations
  5. Deleting/Erasing Annotations
  6. Set Up Show Options
  7. Presentation View, Kiosk View, Window View
  8. Slide Transition Effects and Timings
  9. Using Animation with Slide Content
  10. Entrance, Exit and Emphasis Animation
  11. Motion Path Animation
      
      
• Module 12: Finishing your PowerPoint Presentation
  1. Rehearsing your Presentation with Presenter Coach
  2. Saving your presentation as (ppt, gif, jpeg, pdf, odp)
  3. Saving to Desktop and OneDrive
  4. Sharing and embedding your Presentation
     
     

PowerPoint Course Levels: training courses are available for beginners, intermediate, and advanced users of Microsoft PowerPoint.

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