# PowerPoint Level I (Self-Paced)

Canonical URL: <https://training-nyc.com/courses/powerpoint-level-i-self-paced>

## Overview

This course gives you a dependable foundation in PowerPoint, covering how to build presentations that include text, images, shapes, transitions, and layered objects without the layout coming apart. You will work with tables and charts and prepare slides for an actual presentation rather than just a file that exists.

It suits beginners as well as anyone whose PowerPoint skills were assembled ad hoc. The emphasis is on efficiency as much as capability, giving you a set of techniques that noticeably speed up how you build a deck. You also get lifetime access to a custom video suite for review, on desktop, tablet, or mobile.

## What you'll learn

- Create presentations from templates and customize layouts, themes, and structure
- Edit text, bullets, and numbered lists using Outline View and formatting tools
- Insert and enhance photos, SmartArt, and shapes with effects, cropping, and alignment
- Create and format tables, add connector lines, and import Excel charts
- Apply transitions and manage presenter notes
- Use tools built for live and virtual presenting
- Save, print, and export presentations to PDF for professional use

## 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

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $299