Microsoft Powerpoint Training Courses

Powerpoint Training Courses London To create the perfect presentation, you will need the required skills in Powerpoint to help you create a presentation that stands out, looks professional and as a presentation aide, will help you achieve your goal. Be it sales pitch, internal presentation or an important pitch to your board members, our MS Powerpoint training courses will help you achieve your goal.

At Mouse Training, we believe that training on Powerpoint should be focused to your needs. All our Powerpoint courses can be tailored to meet your exact needs. We offer a free Powerpoint Training Needs Analysis to gauge your current knowledge level, and then design a tailored Powerpoint course for you and your colleagues.

If preferable, you could simply attend one of our standard Powerpoint training courses, e.g. PowerPoint Introduction or Powerpoint Advanced. As a proven course, they will help users of all abilities to gain more knowledge, skills and confidence when creating and running their presentations.

We also offer PowerPoint training courses for all versions of MS Powerpoint. These include Powerpoint 2010 courses or even as old as Powerpoint 97. We also run Powerpoint 2010 upgrade training courses

We do not run public scheduled courses. If you attend a public Powerpoint course, you might spend an hour + simply changing fonts. That's because public courses sell an outline that needs to be completed, regardless of most users knowledge on that topic. What a waste of valuable, expensive time!. Our Powerpoint trainers can adapt, engage and deliver a Powerpoint training course that is exactly what you need. PS: All our trainers are MOS Powerpoint qualified.

MS Powerpoint 2010 Training Courses

With a host of new and enhanced features, Powerpoint 2010 takes your presentations to the next level. Excellent graphics and visual tools are great for getting the exact tone required for your presentation type. We offer a wide selection of Powerpoint 2010 training courses, which of course can be tailored to your exact needs.

MS Powerpoint 2007 Training Courses

Listed are our standard PowerPoint 2007 training courses:

MS Powerpoint 2003 Training Courses

Powerpoint 2003 is still the most used version currently. Learn all the tools needed to create the perfect presentation with our Powerpoint 2003 training courses below. Once again, we are able to tailor the course to meet your exact needs.

Standard Powerpoint Training Course Levels / Training Details / Locations / Schedule

Select a Powerpoint course level below to view all the information you need about the course, including the cost of the course, the available training formats and much more.

Introduction
Advanced
Course Builder
TNA

Powerpoint Introduction Training Course

This course is designed for new users, or users that have been self taught on Powerpoint. The course covers all aspect of creating a presentation from scratch right through to running a presentation with animation

Course Duration

This is a 1 day Powerpoint Introduction Course . Course starts at 09:30 and runs until 16:30

Course Locations / Schedule

This course can be run Onsite, at our Powerpoint training centre or any preferred location in the UK. The course is run on a date that suits you! We do not run public scheduled courses.

PowerPoint Introduction / Beginners Training Course Contents

PowerPoint Overview

User interface overview Ribbons, Tri Pane View (Normal)
File Tab and usage
Navigation Pane
The PowerPoint views and how to access them
Using Help

PowerPoint Views

The Normal (Tripane) View
The Slide Sorter View
The Notes Pages View
The Reading view
The Slide Show View
The View in Black and White
Viewing the Slide Miniature
Accessing Print Preview
How to access Outline View

Creating a New Presentation

Creating A New Presentation and Saving
Create a presentation from inbuilt templates
Placeholders
Adding New Slides - entering & editing Text (slide view)
Understanding Slide Layouts and changing / reapplying a layout
Understanding the text levels
Entering bulleted text
Adding Freeform Text (text Boxes)
Creating Blank Slides

Formatting Text

Text Selection
Formatting Text
Formatting Backgrounds (Slide and Placeholder)
Formatting Numbered and Bulleted Lists
Format Painter
Entering text in Outline
Changing text levels
Shortcut keys for navigating in outline

Drawing Tools

The Insert Ribbon
The design & format ribbons
Drawing basic shapes freehand
Creating regular shapes
Formatting Shapes including 3D, Shadows and Fill Effects
Enter and format Smart Art
Set Shape Options
Connect shapes
Move and Copy Drawn Objects
Work with Guides and Visible Grid
Align & Distribute Objects
Flip and Rotate Objects
Order and Group Objects (layering)
Enter and format text within a shape
Inserting WordArt

Graphics and Clipart

Insert Clip Art
Moving and Resizing
Format Ribbon and Clip Art
Grouping and Ungrouping Clip Art

Tables and Charts

Create and use a table
Add text
Insert columns and rows
Format a Table
Create a chart
Edit the Chart Type
Edit the Chart Options
Format a chart
Create an organisation Chart (Smart Art)
Create an organisation Chart (Shapes)
Edit and Format an Organisation Chart

Slide Masters and Templates

View the Slide Master
Add a company logo to every slide
Format the background
Colour Schemes
Format the Title Area and Object Area
Change Headers & Footers
Using Multiple Slide Masters
Preserving a Slide Master
Viewing the Title Master
Editing the Title Master
View the layout masters
Create your own layout
Remove layouts from master
Apply a Design Template to a slide or master
Slide Design Task Pane
Creating your own Design Template (using a Master)
Apply your own design template
Change settings of the Standard Master design

Transitions and Animation

Transition Effects
Animation Schemes
Preview Animations
Custom Animation
Using Animation to Build Bullet Points
Animate a Chart
Animate smart art
Animate a shape
Animation Paths
Animating multiple objects simultaneously
Animation Timeline
Reorder animations
Animation settings

Slide Shows

Rehearsing the timing of a Presentation
Right Click options to use during slide shows
Slide Navigation
Hiding / Unhiding Slides
Run / Exit slideshows

Saving presentations

Saving as a presentation
Saving as a slideshow
Saving as a video
Publish to web / SharePoint
Save to other formats

Printing Presentations

Print Preview
Printing Slides
Printing Hand-outs
Printing Notes Pages
Printing Outline View

Powerpoint Advanced Training Course

This course is designed for users that have been self taught on Powerpoint or whom have attended an introduction course. The course covers more advanced tools and running multiple presentations

Course Duration

This is a 1 day Powerpoint Advanced Training Course . Course starts at 09:30 and runs until 16:30

Course Locations / Schedule

This Advanced Powerpoint can be run Onsite, at our Powerpoint training centre or any preferred location in the UK. The course is run on a date that suits you! We do not run public scheduled courses.

PowerPoint Advanced Training Course Contents

Basics review

Creating a Presentation
Formatting a Presentation
Working with Outline View
Working with Slide Sorter View

Drawings Skills

The Insert Ribbon
Draw basic shapes freehand
Create regular shapes
Format Shapes including 3D, Shadows and Fill Effects
Create Auto Shapes
Copy and Move objects
Work with Guides and grid
Align & Distribute Objects
Flip and Rotate
Order & group Objects
Using the Freeform drawing tool and Edit Points
Insert and format text within a shape
Insert and format WordArt
Using connectors to create flow diagrams

Multi-media, Linked and Embedded Objects

Insert a movie file
Insert sound files
Link Data from Word and Excel
Insert word and excel files
Embed part of an object
Embed Data form Word and Excel
Embed fonts
Compress pictures to reduce file size
Video and sound file options

Slide Show Preparation

Rehearse the timing of a Presentation
Slide Navigator
Add Hyperlinks on a slide to access other files
Add hyperlinks to websites
Add Controls with actions to navigate a slide show
Customising Action Buttons
Recording narration
Compare slideshows
Comments and reviewing

Custom Shows

Create custom shows
Set options for the custom shows
Choose which custom show to run.
Create an Agenda slide

Speaker Notes and Handouts

Enter notes in Notes Page View
Edit notes page
Edit notes master
Printing Notes
Send Slides to Word to Create Handouts
Edit hand-outs master
Add speaker notes during slideshow

Presenting With PowerPoint

Setting up slideshow options (Automatic / Manual)
Looping
Online collaboration
Using narrations
Using and saving ink annotations
Broadcasting slideshow
Email presentation
Make a PDF
Package for CD
PowerPoint Viewer
Publishing to the Web

Tailored Powerpoint Training Course

We have developed our own Custom Powerpoint Course Builder, where you can choose the topics you want to include in your MS PowerPoint training course. Each topic has an estimated teach time, so you can see how long it would take to learn what you want!

GO TO POWERPOINT COURSE BUILDER

MS PowerPoint Training Needs Analysis

We provide a free PowerPoint Training Needs Analysis (TNA) for all our clients to ensure the course is exactly what you need. Simply download our PowerPoint TNA. After completion, send this back to us. We can then build a PowerPoint Training Course that will ensure you only get shown relevant topics, unlike scheduled PowerPoint training courses.