PowerPoint for PC: Become Proficient in PowerPoint

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Through a combination of practical examples, exercises and step by step video tutorials, this course will introduce you to the PowerPoint interface and the tools required to create professional level presentations. Like Training the Street’s signature Excel Best Practices course, this course stresses keyboard shortcuts and how to efficiently navigate in PowerPoint. By utilizing both basic and advanced tools, the course is designed to help experienced users to break bad habits and to harness the power of keyboard shortcuts while also providing less experienced users with a strong foundation for everyday use of PowerPoint. Whether you’re an investment banker, consultant, accountant, or specialist in healthcare, technology or industrials, a novice or experienced user, taking this course will set you up for success in PowerPoint.

Note: There will be periodic updates and new content additions to this course. Current customers will automatically receive all such future updates and additions.

KEY FEATURES

This online course includes approximately 3 hours of instruction and PowerPoint drills. The course is essential for anyone who will be required to use PowerPoint, including but not limited to:

The financial services industry (investment banking, consulting, research, asset management, brokerage, sales & trading, insurance, private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurship and start-ups)
Corporate/strategic development or finance group of a corporation
Marketing, brand management or operations for a corporation or any position responsible for a product or divisional budget, projections and profit/loss statement
Optimized for PC based Powerpoint

TOPICS COVERED

Navigating – keyboard shortcuts, dialog boxes, F6, CTRL + F6 and task panes
Workplace setup – presentation views, slide sorter, aspect ratios and orientation
Alignment tools – gridlines, rulers & guides and Smartguides
Working with text – tools and best practices
Themes – colors, fonts, solid backgrounds, gradient background and picture background
Charting – copying charts from Excel, changing chart types and design/format options for pie charts

PREREQUISITES

This course assumes no prior knowledge of PowerPoint