PowerPoint 1 – mastering the basics 🆕

Learn the basics of PowerPoint and create visually consistent presentations with ease. In this training, you will learn to use PowerPoint’s views and themes. After the training, you will know how to create a presentation using your organization’s template.

Goal

The goal is to learn the basic functions for building a presentation: creating, adding, and editing slides, as well as adding text and images. You will also learn how to save your presentation and export it as a PDF. After completing this training, you will have mastered the basics, and you can move on to complete PowerPoint trainings 2–4 in any order.

Target audience

This training is intended for anyone who has not used PowerPoint before or wants a refresher on the basics. No prior experience with PowerPoint is required.

Software version

The training is carried out using the latest Microsoft 365 version of PowerPoint. For the most part, the skills learned are applicable to other commonly used versions of PowerPoint.

Content

PowerPoint basics

• File formats and interface
• Creating a new presentation
• Different views and switching between them

Customizing the look

• Creating great-looking slides effortlessly: changing and customizing themes
• Making the most of layouts
• Using your organization’s look: Starting a presentation from a template

Building the presentation

• Placeholders for content: the basics of adding text and other elements
• Adding slides
• Adding text and images to slides
• Structuring your presentation: adding and using sections

Saving and exporting

• Saving your presentation
• Exporting to PDF

Keywords

PowerPoint, slide, presentation, Microsoft 365, Office, file, saving, template