PowerPoint for Advanced Users

This fast-paced one-day course is for anyone who has used PowerPoint to create basic slides and wishes to fully master the capabilities of PowerPoint, quickly create slideshows without the faff and control how slides appear. This course is for those who want to be able to quickly and easily create presentations that look well designed, fit the corporate branding and fully utilise animation, sound and video to good effect.

Course Overview

Take your PowerPoint skills up a level with this practical course. Learn to design impactful presentations using advanced tools, animation, multimedia, and smart structure — all while staying on brand and audience-focused. This course is only available for private bookings, either for groups or as a one-to-one, held online via Zoom or in the classroom. Please get in touch for availability.

 

Why take this course?

  • Create professional and engaging presentations
  • Work confidently with slide masters and templates
  • Use multimedia and animation to enhance your message
  • Add interactive features for more engaging presentations
  • Learn tips for confident delivery with Presenter View

Who is it for?

Ideal for those already confident using PowerPoint and looking to master more advanced design features, animation, and interactivity to create dynamic presentations.

Duration

1 day

Classroom size

8 approx.

Location

Online | Classroom

Certificate

1 Certification

Experience

Advanced

What you will learn

  • Understand the elements of a great presentation
  • Create well-designed slides that are simple and effective
  • Avoid the faff and quickly create new presentations that meet your design needs.
  • Create templates that make creation of your presentations easy
  • Create and adjust master slides to control the look of your presentation
  • Integrate slides from other presentations, either keeping the original formatting or applying your style
  • Understand where to find free or low-cost images and be able to manipulate them
  • Use animation to control how slides are displayed
  • Add hyperlinks to allow you, or somebody receiving the slides, to move easily to other slides.
  • Create an automated quiz, using PowerPoint slides
  • Insert and edit sound and video files into your presentation
  • Distribute a set of slides to others in different formats

Course Timetable

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Session 1

The key principles that make a great presentation:

  • Simplicity
  • Slide design
  • Use of story

Session 2

Master Slides and templates:

  • Design themes
  • Master Slides
  • Templates

Session 3

Enhancing presentations:

  • Image manipulation
  • Creating charts
  • Using Animation
  • Annotating slides
  • Using hyperlinks and Hot Spots
  • Creating a quiz

Session 4

Integration and multimedia:

  • Combining slides from different sources
  • Working with sound and video
  • Recording a video in PowerPoint

Ready to take the next step?

We are here to help!

This course is only available as a one-to-one or private group booking.

For pricing and availability, send us a message using the form, leave us a message on 020 7375 7300, or speak to an Account Manager straight away using our Live Chat service in the bottom right of your screen!

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Looking for Private Group Training?

If you have three or more learners, a private group training could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

The Happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course.

We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

Why Choose happy?

Because Happiness Works

Joy leads to success, every time,

Expert-Led & Hands-On

Our award-winning training isn’t just theoretical. It’s packed with practical tools you can use straight away.

B Corp Certified & Proud

We don’t just talk about impact — we live it. As a B Corp, we’re committed to making workplaces better for everyone.

Classroom or live online learning available

Both available for public and private dates.

The small print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven’t received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy’s HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

FAQs

What if I have a Mac?

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.