# PowerPoint for Business

Canonical URL: <https://training-nyc.com/courses/beginner-powerpoint-classes>

## Overview

In this beginner PowerPoint course, you’ll learn how to create and run dynamic presentations. Add text, images, shapes, transitions, and layered objects; create tables and charts; and learn how to run a presentation slide show for audiences who are in-person or watching online.

This class includes our PowerPoint video suite with several hours of premium content. Review the course materials with high-quality video with lifetime access on desktop, tablet or mobile, a $95 value, included free with the course.

## What you'll learn

- Create new PowerPoint Presentations
- Choose appropriate slide layouts & add content (text, images, etc.)  
- Add photos, graphics, & how to adjust them (size, crop, etc.)
- Build Diagrams using SmartArt
- Draw Shapes & Lines
- Align & Evenly Space Objects
- Work with Tables & Charts
- Add Transitions
- Run a PowerPoint Presentation (Slide Show)

## 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

## Schedule
- Jun 10, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC
- Jul 16, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC
- Aug 12, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC
- Aug 12, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC
- Sep 15, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $249