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PowerPoint 2021 : From the basics to advanced training - online training

Master PowerPoint 2021: presentations, animations, visuals, and professional delivery


Discover PowerPoint presentation software versions 2021 and Microsoft 365 and master all its features. From the basics to advanced commands, this training course will enable you to progress in all areas of the software (entering and processing text, managing slides, adding images and graphic objects, using masks, animations, projecting and broadcasting slideshows...).

Objectives

At the end of the course, participant will be able to use the fundamental and advanced features of PowerPoint 2021.

Is it for you ?

All users wishing to discover or revise the basics of PowerPoint and to learn more about its advanced features.

Prerequisite

No knowledge of PowerPoint is not necessary. Minimal practice with the software may help you progress more quickly.

Your benefits

  • Design clear and structured presentations using slides, themes, and layouts
  • Enhance slides with images, tables, charts, and visual elements
  • Apply animations, transitions, and media to create engaging presentations
  • Use slide masters and templates to standardize and save time
  • Prepare, share, and secure professional presentations for various use cases
  • Content

    Essential modules

    PowerPoint 2021 - Level 1: Essential knowledge

    This module offers interactive training with 33 training videos, 33 practice exercises and 5 additional information points.

    Discover PowerPoint

    • Worth knowing: Discovering a pre-CAD application
    • Opening a presentation
    • General environment
    • Display modes
    • Display zoom
    • Accessing slides
    • Using PowerPoint Help

    Create your first slides

    • Creating slides
    • To know : Selecting, copying and moving
    • Selecting and deleting slides
    • What you need to know Saving files
    • Saving a presentation
    • Did you know? Input aids
    • Entering text
    • Undoing and redoing an action
    • Copying and moving slides
    • Selecting and editing text
    • Notes page
    • Spell check
    • Synonym and translation
    • Search and replace text
    See more + / -

    Project and print slideshows

    • Projecting a slideshow
    • Page setup and orientation
    • Preview and print
    • Creating a new presentation
    • Theme and layout

    Take care of the text on your slides

    • Worth knowing: Character formatting
    • Character formatting
    • Character fonts
    • Character break
    • Character size and spacing
    • Column and paragraph alignment
    • Paragraph bullets and numbering
    • Paragraph spacing and line spacing
    • Text ruler
    • Paragraph indentation
    • Tab management
    • Copying text formatting

    PowerPoint 2021 - Level 2: Intermediate skills

    This module offers interactive training with 43 training videos, 43 practice exercises and 1 additional information point.

    Turn your speech into slides

    • Creating slides/entering Map view
    • Plan view management
    • Moving text on a map
    • Presentation from a Word document

    Illustrate your slides

    • Selecting and deleting objects
    • Moving an object
    • Grids and markers
    • Tracing a shape
    • Copying and duplicating an object
    • Sizing an object
    • Modifying an object
    • Shaping an object
    • Line shaping
    • Effects on objects
    • Copy object layout
    • Object rotation and orientation
    • Aligning and distributing objects
    • Object superimposition order
    • Grouping or separating objects

    Add and manage text and image areas

    • Text area and text in a drawing object
    • Formatting a text area
    • Effects on text
    • Insert and save an image
    • Image formatting
    • Managing an image

    Place tables and diagrams

    • Creating and inserting a table
    • Table styles
    • Modifying and formatting a table
    • Managing table rows and columns
    • Managing cells and tables
    • Inserting a diagram
    • Managing a diagram
    • Formatting a diagram

    Slide management

    • Hypertext links
    • Worth knowing : Header and footer
    • Header and footer
    • Theme customization

    Don't miss out on masks

    • Slide mask overview
    • Using slide masks
    • Modifying layouts
    • Modifying mask placeholders
    • Using multiple masks
    • Note page mask
    • Document mask

    PowerPoint 2021 - Level 3: Advanced knowledge

    This module offers interactive training with 33 training videos, 33 practice exercises and 6 additional information points.

    Enhance your presentations with graphic objects

    • Worth knowing: Graphics
    • Inserting a graphic
    • Selecting and deleting chart elements
    • Chart data
    • Layout of graph elements
    • Formatting a graph
    • Managing graph templates
    • Inserting an object from another application

    Move your slides

    • Inserting slides from another presentation
    • Sections
    • Summary, slide or section zooming
    • Inserting an audio or video clip
    • Managing audio/video clips
    • Interaction defined on an object
    • Animation effects on objects
    • Customize animation effects
    • Text animation
    • Automatic triggering of animation effects
    • Transition effects

    Make your projections a success

    • Automatic slide scrolling
    • Custom slideshows
    • Choice of slides for slideshow
    • Configure slideshows and handwritten annotations during execution

    Share and protect your presentations

    • Create a package on CD-Rom or in a folder
    • Worth knowing: Import, export and interoperability with PowerPoint
    • Export to common formats
    • Converting PowerPoint presentations
    • Presentation properties
    • Comments a presentation
    • Compare a presentation

    Find out more

    • What you need to know Styles and templates
    • Creating and using a presentation template
    • Creating a photo album
    • Learn more Versions and retrieving presentations
    • To know : Customizing the ribbon
    • Good to know : Best practices

    Microsoft Office: use cases

    Excel, Word or PowerPoint with a Microsoft 365 subscription

    Video: This module features a 23-minute video.

    • Office with or without a Microsoft 365 subscription: what are the differences?
    • Creating and saving Office documents on OneDrive, SharePoint Online or Teams
    • Edit Office documents from OneDrive, SharePoint or Teams
    • Share Office documents with colleagues or people outside your organization
    • Co-edit files

    The add-on module

    PowerPoint 2021

    Digital book: This module enables you to consult a digital course material.

    💡 Useful information

    100% online training. Accessible anytime, from anywhere, giving a one year of access to the training. If you have any questions regarding registration, the language of instruction, or cancellation policies, please consult our FAQ .

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    Duration
    14.5 hours
    Regular fee
    $199
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