Microsoft Office 365 - PowerPoint 2021

Full overview

In this lesson, you’ll build a presentation from scratch by creating and formatting slides, adding text and images, adjusting layouts, and applying themes. You’ll also practice using design tools, editing features, and presentation views to organize content, enhance visuals, and prepare your slideshow for review and delivery.

In this lesson, you’ll enhance your presentation by customizing themes, inserting symbols and hyperlinks, and working with SmartArt. You’ll also format and style shapes, merge objects, fill shapes with pictures, and apply transitions. These tools help you create visually engaging and professional slides that communicate your message clearly.

In this lesson, you’ll learn to enhance presentations with charts, tables, and multimedia. You’ll insert and style data visuals, customize text with WordArt, add and format images, and reuse content. You’ll also apply animations and insert video to make your slides more dynamic and engaging for your audience.

In this lesson, you’ll design consistent, professional slides by editing the Slide Master, modifying backgrounds, and inserting placeholders. You’ll experiment with advanced formatting options, create reusable templates, and use tools like the Thesaurus, presentation inspection, and in-show annotations to refine and deliver polished presentations with confidence.

In this lesson, you’ll practice editing and organizing a presentation by adjusting spacing, aligning content, and managing sections. You’ll explore advanced formatting tools, add creative effects and animations, and use features like the Format Painter and Animation Painter to apply consistent styling across your slides.

In this lesson, you’ll work with content from external sources by inserting slides from outlines, embedding and linking files, and editing data-driven elements like tables and charts. You’ll also adjust layouts, apply formatting effects, and navigate your presentation using different views for efficient editing and review.

In this lesson, you’ll enhance your presentation with multimedia and visual elements by using SmartArt, formatting images, and adding audio and video clips. You’ll adjust media settings, customize hyperlinks and action buttons, and practice organizing visual content to support clear and engaging slide design.

In this lesson, you’ll analyze data using PivotTables and PivotCharts. You’ll apply filters, summary functions, calculated fields, and slicers to customize your reports. You’ll also explore trendlines, drill-down features, and statistical charts like Box and Whisker to deepen your data insights and presentation skills.

This course prepares a student to take the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2019 national certification exams. At this time, there is not a scheduled release date for Microsoft Office 2021 national certification exams.

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