Microsoft PowerPoint 365

Overview

Delivery method

Virtual classroom

Duration

7 hours (2 half days)

Audience

All SSC employees at all levels

Description

Notice: SSC incurs expenses for the Microsoft sessions regardless of attendance. Please be mindful and committed to your registration. If your plans change, please cancel 12 business days prior to the course start date.

Taking considerable time to build, too complex, poorly designed: PowerPoint presentation too often distort the message to be conveyed.

This is the reason why our most experienced trainers and speakers wanted to design a course that will teach you the best practices to create and share your PowerPoint presentations. Shed new light on PowerPoint and learn how it can help make your presentation a real success!

Introduction – PowerPoint in the M365 environment

• The different ways of accessing PowerPoint in the M365 ecosystem
  • Via Teams
  • Via SharePoint
  • Teams vs browser vs desktop application
• Recommended best practices

Chapter 1 – What is an efficient PowerPoint presentation?

• The best practices
• The pitfalls
• The 3 parts of a presentation

Chapter 2 – Prepare an efficient presentation in 10 steps

• Planning the presentation
• Manage the format of the slides
• Manage and optimize the media
• Managing colours, fonts and alignment
• Best practices with pictures and images
• Charts: what to or what not to do
• Smart Arts to add some character to your presentation and make your animations more impactful
• Using comments
• Managing themes and the Slide Master
• Managing animations and transitions
• Moving texts and slides in Outline View
• Change the font, color and background
• Creating a template
• Introduction to animations
• Ways to save your presentation
• Exporting a presentation

Chapter 3 – Important notions

• Using the presenter mode
• Never forget:
  • The impact of colours
  • Psychological and cognitive effects
• Saving a theme
• Adding slides
• Using the Slide Master

Objectives

• Understanding the 17 key steps to create and share effective and successful PowerPoint presentations.

Target Audience
SSC Employees who use Microsoft PowerPoint

Prerequisite(s)
This course is intended for participants who are already familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint

Legacy course code: MS365-PP-SSC