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Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint Training Course

This Microsoft PowerPoint training course introduces some of the more advanced techniques for creating professional and powerful multimedia slideshows and accompanying presentation packs, and extends upon skills acquired on our beginners PowerPoint course.

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.

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

If you only require selected topics then there is also the option to combine PowerPoint with half a day of other traditional Microsoft Office packages such as Word or Outlook.

The modern PowerPoint application is so much more than its historic reputation for tedious and unengaging bullet point slideshows.

These days Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful, feature rich, integrated multimedia platform that you can use to publish, broadcast, report or live present (in-person or virtually) with precision layout formatting, built-in rehearsal functionality and integration with Teams, Zoom and Webex for presenters.

Learning PowerPoint well can really help you to engage and connect with your audience.

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

Our expert trainers come to you and can deliver this Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced 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 Advanced Training Course Prerequisites

In order to attend this course you should already have basic Microsoft PowerPoint skills and knowledge equivalent to our PowerPoint Beginners training course.

On-site Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint 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 advanced 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 Advanced PowerPoint Courses in 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 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 Advanced 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 Advanced 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.

Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint Course Topics

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

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

• Module 1: Customising and Branding your PowerPoint Presentations
  1. Customising toolbars
  2. Applying themes
  3. Previewing and selecting a theme
  4. Customising themes
  5. Saving customised themes
  6. Setting default themes
  7. Applying background styles
  8. Applying default background styles
  9. Creating and applying customised background styles
  10. Inserting footers
  11. Arranging and printing Sections
  12. Using Sections
      
      
• Module 2: Working with Special Effects
  1. Adding animations for text and objects
  2. Using the Animation Painter
  3. Setting animation timings
  4. Using chart animations
     
     
• Module 3: Working with SmartArt
  1. What is SmartArt?
  2. Inserting and editing graphic files
  3. Resizing and re-positioning objects
  4. Resizing shapes and graphics
  5. Repositioning graphics
  6. Inserting and formatting text objects
  7. Adding shapes to objects
  8. Grouping and Ungrouping objects
     
     
• Module 4: Managing Presentation Documents with the Slide Master
  1. What are Master Slides, cascading styles and inheritance?
  2. Formatting Slide Masters and Layouts
  3. Adding watermarks to a PowerPoint presentation
  4. Numbering your slides with the Slide Master
  5. Inserting new Slide Masters
  6. Saving Slide Masters
  7. Editing the Notes Master
  8. Editing the Handout Master
  9. Inserting headers and footers into notes and handouts
     
     
• Module 5: Working with multimedia
  1. Creating a photo album
  2. Adding captions to your album
  3. Creating themes for your album
  4. Customising albums
  5. Inserting audio and video
  6. Inserting an audio soundtrack
  7. Inserting a video file
  8. Inserting multimedia content
  9. Editing audio and video media clips
  10. Inserting Animated GIF images
  11. Importing Excel Charts
      
      
• Module 6: Setting up a PowerPoint Slide Show
  1. Creating a custom slide show
  2. Inserting hyperlinks into your presentations
  3. Inserting action buttons and rollover menus
  4. Linking between presentations (interlinking multiple presentations)
  5. Annotating presentations with footnotes and endnotes
  6. Creating auto slide shows
  7. Setting a slide show to auto-repeat
     
     
• Module 7: Creating a full Presentation Package using Outlines and Slides
  1. Exporting Notes and Handouts to Microsoft Word
  2. Exporting presentation outlines to Microsoft Word
  3. Saving presentation outlines
  4. Saving slides as image files and PDFs
  5. Two screen set up for live presenting
     
     
• Module 8: Distributing and Protecting Presentations (Sharing and Security)
  1. Sharing presentations remotely
  2. Embedding fonts within presentations
  3. Packaging presentations for social media and sharing
  4. Using the PowerPoint Viewer
  5. Savings presentations for the Web
  6. PowerPoint integration with Microsoft Teams Presenter Mode
  7. Perfecting live presentations with PowerPoint's Rehearsal Coach
  8. Protecting your presentations with encryption
  9. Protecting your presentations with Digital signatures
  10. Setting and managing permissions
  11. Compressing photos and images for use on the Web
  12. Saving presentations as Adobe PDFs, animated GIFs and other formats
      
      

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

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