Microsoft Powerpoint Training Courses
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 2007 courses or even as old as Powerpoint 97. We also run Powerpoint 2007 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 2007 Training Courses
With a host of new and enhanced features, Powerpoint 2007 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 2007 training courses, which of course can be tailored to your exact needs.
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
- Tailored Training
- 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 Center 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 -Title Bar, Menus / Ribbons, Tri Pane View (Normal)
- Using Help
Creating a New Presentation
- Creating A New Presentation and Saving
- Adding New Slides - entering & editing Text
- Slide Layouts - Title Slide, Bulleted List, Two Column Text
- Changing the slide layout
- Creating Blank Slides
- Adding Freeform Text
Formatting Text
- Selecting Text and Selecting Placeholders
- Formatting Text
- Formatting Backgrounds
- Formatting Numbered and Bulleted Lists
- Slide Master
- Format Painter
Powerpoint Views
- Normal (Tripane) View
- Slide Sorter View
- Notes Pages View
- Slide Show View
- View in Black and White
- Viewing Slide Miniature
- Print Preview
- Outline View
Drawing Tools
- The Drawing Toolbar
- Drawing basic shapes freehand
- Creating regular shapes
- Formatting Shapes including 3D, Shadows and Fill Effects
- Creating Auto Shapes, Moving and Copying
- Working with Guides and Visible Grid
- Aligning & Distributing Objects
- Flipping and Rotating Objects
- Ordering and Grouping Objects
- Inserting and formatting text within a shape
- Inserting WordArt
Graphics and Clipart
- Inserting Clip Art
- Moving and Resizing
- Re-colouring Clip Art
- Grouping and Ungrouping Clip Art
Tables and Charts
- Create a table
- Adding text
- Inserting columns and rows
- Enhancing a table with formatting
- Create a chart
- Editing the Chart Type
- Editing the Chart Options
- Create an organisation Chart
- Editing an organisation Chart
Slide Masters and Templates
- Viewing the Slide Master
- Adding a company logo to every slide
- Formatting the background
- Colour Schemes
- Format Title Area and Object Area
- Adding Headers & Footers
- Inserting a second Slide Master
- Preserving a Slide Master
- Viewing the Title Master
- Editing the Title Master
- Applying Design Templates
- Slide Design Task Pane
- Creating your own design Template
- Apply your own design template
- Change the settings of the default design
Transitions and Animation
- Transition Effects
- Building Bullet Points
- Animating a Chart
- Previewing Animations
- Animation Schemes
- Custom Animation
- Path animation
- Animating multiple objects simultaneously
Slide Shows
- Rehearsing the timing of a Presentation
- Controls to use during slide shows
- Slide Navigator
- Hiding Slides
Printing Presentations
- Print Preview
- Printing Handouts
- 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 Center 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 Drawing Toolbar
- Drawing basic shapes freehand
- Creating regular shapes
- Formatting Shapes including 3D, Shadows and Fill Effects
- Creating Auto Shapes
- Copying and Moving
- Working with Guides
- Aligning & Distributing Objects
- Flipping and Rotating
- Ordering Objects
- Grouping Objects
- Freeform drawing tool and Edit Points
- Inserting and formatting text within a shape
- Inserting WordArt
- Using connectors to create flow diagrams
Multi-media, Linked and Embedded Objects
- Inserting a movie file
- Inserting sound
- Linking Data from Word and Excel
- Embedding part of an object
- Embedding Data form Word and Excel
Slide Show Preparation
- Rehearsing the timing of a Presentation
- Controls to use during slide shows
- Slide Navigator
- Hiding Slides
- Adding Hyperlinks to a presentation
- Creating Action Buttons
Custom Shows
- Creating a custom show
- Options for custom shows
- Creating an Agenda slide
Speaker Notes and Handouts
- The Notes Page View
- Printing Notes
- Sending Slides to Word to Create Handouts
Presenting with PowerPoint
- Pack and Go
- PowerPoint Viewer
- Meeting Minder
- 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.
All Previous Powerpoint Training Course Versions and Levels
Below are all our different versions of Powerpoint Training Courses
Powerpoint 2002 Training Courses (XP)
We also run Powerpoint 2002 training courses in London, or UK wide onsite. This is also known as Powerpoint XP
Powerpoint 2000 Training Courses
If you are still using Office 2000, then we still have the trainers to provide Powerpoint 2000 training courses
Powerpoint 97 Training Courses
If you are still using Office 97, then we still have the trainers to provide Powerpoint 97 training courses


