Master the full capabilities and advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint in this free online course.

This course on Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 is designed to help you make full use of the program’s features when preparing presentations. We begin with an introductory module that demonstrates how to set up PowerPoint for easy access and outlines some key areas of its environment and how to navigate it. The first section will also highlight some of the basic editing operations that can be performed in PowerPoint. Without formatting, the text in your presentation is bound to appear flat and we explain how to avoid that. The course discusses some of these processes and provides general rules for formatting text and other advanced editing operations. Graphical elements make your presentations more appealing and we show you how to add images and shapes to your slides.

The second section of this course will take you through the processes of modifying objects in PowerPoint. Handling numerical data in presentations is an important aspect of creating slides. If you are to present financial budgets, statistical data or any figure-dense presentation content, how would you compile such data into a presentation that will appeal to your audience? This section of the course will show you how to insert engaging and informative charts and tables to convey numerical data. Our final section covers the final steps of preparing your course for presentation by reviewing and exporting your PowerPoint slides.

Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the most powerful presentation tools on the market and is widely used to deliver almost any type of presentation that you can imagine. Its tools have been designed to let you develop and deliver textual, numerical, graphical and even audio-based presentations. That said, some of the program’s capabilities are still relatively unknown even to people that use it very often. This course has been designed to provide you with a fundamental understanding of the basic and advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint, using the 2016 version as an example. You will be introduced to its tools, learn how to edit and add elements and master the processes of modifying objects like charts and tables. Lastly, you will be shown how to review your work, add transitions and animations and perform other finishing touches before exporting and presenting your work to an audience. The course is invaluable to both new and old users of PowerPoint as we cover both fundamental and advanced use of the program. Sign up to master this powerful tool and deliver compelling presentations.