Flexible, easy to use—even fun—Microsoft PowerPoint® is a dynamic and practical application that can help you improve your presentations by enhancing them with visual components, so your audience better understands and engages with the information you are providing. With simple and sophisticated templates and tools, you can easily create images, animations, charts, maps, graphs, and more without needing expensive design programs or graphics tools.
The Great Courses has partnered with ITProTV to bring you 33 lessons that will introduce you to both the fundamentals and the little-known tricks to making phenomenal presentations using PowerPoint. In addition to being introduced to the PowerPoint environment, you'll learn tips to add slides to a presentation, insert text and images into slides, and create tables and charts. From there, you'll learn how to enhance a presentation with design themes, animation, and transitions. And, you'll get valuable tips for preparing and delivering a robust presentation. While this series uses the Windows operating system with PowerPoint 2016 locally installed, you'll find the interface and tools within many versions of PowerPoint remain the same or similar enough that you can easily navigate different applications.
University of Florida faculty member Vonne Smith started her teaching career with a global IT training company, teaching Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite applications more than 15 years ago. She knows PowerPoint inside and out, including the elements that most commonly frustrate users. She will take you through adding text and tables, inserting images and icons—even creating or adding 3-D models.
If you're new to PowerPoint, by going through this course step by step, you'll gain everything you need from the foundations to the finishing flourishes. If you're experienced with PowerPoint, this course offers valuable techniques and uncovers tools that are often overlooked, and which can improve your work and make it much easier to do.
Rounding out the insights provided about using PowerPoint itself, Vonne concludes with an overview on how to present your slideshow. So, when you do your presentation, you can feel confident about the technicalities of your delivery.
PowerPoint's easy-to-use interface combined with sophisticated templates allow you to create visually stunning, engaging, and impactful presentations. Once you've uncovered all the tips and tricks to making phenomenal presentations, you'll wonder how you managed without it all this time.