This course will teach you how to create dazzling presentations with superb cinematic-quality transitions that keep your audience focused on your content. You will learn how to create your first slideshow, learn how to use the built-in design themes, edit slides, and apply beautiful transitions. Discover how to add pictures, movies, charts & tables, and how to export them in different formats to share them with the world.
Week 1. Introduction and basics
Creating a presentation
Working with presentations
Navigating the application and customisation
Adding, editing and organising slides
Week 2. Using images, shapes, media and text
Adding and editing images
Adding and editing shapes
Adding and editing video and audio files
Positioning and styling the objects on a page
Adding tables and charts
Week 3. Animate your slides and play your presentation
Animate objects on a slide
Adding transitions
Playing your presentation
Record your presentation
Week 4. Advanced features
Using writing and editing tools
Sharing and collaborating documents
Managing and organising documents
Keyboard shortcuts
This is a lecture-based class with 10 minutes of live Q&A at the end.
By the end of this course, you will be able to quickly and easily create beautifully designed presentations that you will be able to export and share as Microsoft Powerpoint or pdf documents to either PC or Mac users. This software is really powerful and Mac easier to use than Microsoft Powerpoint for your home or business and you will be able to create presentations that pop.
This course is aimed at beginners for both home and business users and also professionals who want to switch to an easier option than Microsoft Powerpoint. No prior training using the software will be needed as we will be starting from the basics through to the advanced features.
