PowerPoint 2021 Basic, Advanced & Expert

Benefit

Discover the PowerPoint 2021 presentation programme and learn how to master all its features. In this training course, you will learn everything you need to know about the software, from basic to advanced functions.

No software is required for this online course. You will learn in a virtual environment directly in PowerPoint 2021.

Target group

This course is ideal for you if you want to learn or refresh the basics of PowerPoint and are also curious about advanced features. 

Requirements

You do not need any prior knowledge of PowerPoint. Some initial experience would be helpful, as it would enable you to achieve success in the training course even more quickly. 

Learning content

Level 1: Basic knowledge

This module offers interactive training consisting of 33 lesson videos, 33 practical tasks and 5 theoretical tasks with additional information. 

Discover PowerPoint

• Useful information: Discovering a screen presentation programme 
• Opening a presentation 
• General information about the programme environment 
• View mode 
• Zoom 
• Accessing the slides 
• Using PowerPoint Help Create 

your first slides

• Creating slides 
• Useful information: Selecting, copying and moving 
• Selecting and deleting 
• slides Useful information: Saving files
• Saving a presentation 
• Useful information: Accessibility features 
• Text input 
• Undoing and redoing commands 
• Copying and moving slides 
• Selecting and editing text 
• Notes page 
• Spell check 
• Synonyms and translation 
• Finding and replacing text 

Show a slide show and print it 

• Show a slide show 
• Page setup and orientation 
• Preview and print 
• Create a new presentation 
• Design and layout 

Work out the slide texts carefully

• Things to know: Formatting characters 
• Formatting characters 
• Font 
• Upper and lower case 
• Size and spacing of characters 
• Columns and paragraph alignment 
• Paragraphs with bullet points or numbering 
• Spacing between paragraphs and lines 
• Rulers for text 
• Paragraph indentation 
• Managing tabs 
• Applying text formatting 

Level 2: Advanced - knowledge for consolidation 

This module offers interactive training consisting of 43 lesson videos, 43 practical tasks and 1 theoretical task with additional information. 

Transfer your speech to slides

• Creating slides and entering text in outline view 
• Managing outline view 
• Moving text in the outline 
• Creating a presentation from a Word document

Illustrate your slides

• Selecting and deleting objects 
• Moving objects 
• Gridlines and guides 
• Drawing shapes 
• Copying and duplicating objects 
• Resizing an object 
• Editing objects 
• Formatting an object 
• Formatting lines
• Objects with effects 
• Copying the formatting of an object 
• Rotating and aligning objects 
• Aligning and distributing objects 
• Object order 
• Grouping objects or ungrouping them

Füge Textfelder und Bilder hinzu und verwalte diese

• Textfelder und Texte in Zeichnungsobjekten
• Ein Textfeld formatieren
• Texteffekte
• Bilder einfügen und speichern
• Ein Bild formatieren
• Bilder verwalten

Add text boxes and images and manage them

• Create and insert a table 
• Table style templates 
• Format a table 
• Manage rows and columns in a table 
• Manage cells and a table 
• Insert SmartArt graphics 
• Manage a SmartArt graphic 
• Format a SmartArt graphic

Make progress in managing the slides

• Link 
• Interesting facts: Header and footer 
• Header and footer 
• Customising a design

Work with masters

• What is a slide master? 
• Using slide masters 
• Changing layouts 
• Changing the placeholders of a slide master 
• Using multiple slide masters 
• Notes master 
• Handout master

Level 3: Expert - Advanced knowledge

This module offers interactive training consisting of 33 lesson videos, 33 practical tasks and 6 theoretical tasks with additional information.

Enhance your presentation with graphic objects

• Things to know: Charts
• Inserting charts
• Selecting and deleting individual elements of a chart
• Chart data
• Layout of chart elements
• Formatting a chart
• Managing chart templates
• Inserting an object from another application

Bring your presentations to life

• Insert slides from another presentation
• The sections
• Summary Zoom, Slide Zoom or Section Zoom
• Inserting a video or audio clip
• Managing audio/video clips
• Actions for objects
• Animation effects for objects
• Custom animation effects
• Text animation
• Automatic start of animation effects
• Transition effects

Ensure your presentations are a complete success

• Automatically run slides
• Customised slide shows
• Select slides for the slide show
• Set up a slide show and handwritten notes during execution

Share your presentations and protect them

• Creating a package on CD-ROM or in a folder
• Useful information: Import, export and interoperability with PowerPoint
• Exporting to common formats
• Converting a PowerPoint presentation
• Properties of a presentation
• Comments
• Comparing presentations
• Protecting a presentation with a password
• Sharing a presentation
• Finalising a presentation

And even more on this topic

• Useful information: Style sheets and templates
• Creating and using a presentation template 
• Creating a photo album
• Useful information: File versions and restoring presentations
• Useful information: Customising the ribbon
• Useful information: The correct way to work with screen presentations

Microsoft Office 2021: Use Cases

Excel, Word or PowerPoint with an Office 365 subscription 

This module offers you a video with a duration of 23 minutes.

• Office with or without an Office 365 subscription: what is the difference? 
• Creating and saving Office documents in OneDrive, SharePoint Online or Teams 
• Editing an Office document via OneDrive, SharePoint or Teams 
• Sharing Office documents with colleagues or external parties 
• Creating files collaboratively