# PowerPoint Fundamentals Course Online

Canonical URL: <https://vdci.edu/courses/powerpoint-fundamentals-course-online>

## Overview

Build a strong foundation in Microsoft PowerPoint with this beginner-friendly course. You'll learn to create polished presentations using text, images, shapes, transitions, and layered objects, and you'll get comfortable working with tables and charts to give your slides a professional finish.

Whether you're brand new to PowerPoint or just want to sharpen your existing skills, this course gives you a practical toolkit of techniques to work smarter and more efficiently. You'll also get lifetime access to a custom video suite you can revisit whenever you need a refresher, available on desktop, tablet, or mobile.

## What you'll learn

- Build presentations from templates and tailor layouts, themes, and content structure to fit your needs
- Edit text, bullets, and numbered lists using Outline View and built-in formatting tools
- Add and enhance photos, SmartArt, and shapes with effects, cropping, and alignment options
- Create and format tables, connect shapes with lines, and pull in Excel charts to display your data
- Apply transitions, manage presenter notes, and use tools designed for both live and virtual presentations
- Save, print, and export your work to PDF with options suited for professional use

## Curriculum

#### Creating New Presentations

- Creating a Presentation
- Choosing a Template/Theme
- Changing the Template/Theme
- Adding Slides & Typing in Content

#### Slide Layouts

- Choosing a Slide Layout
- Changing the Slide Layout

#### Adding Text & Outline View

- Adding Text
- Bulleted vs Numbered Lists
- Adding & Editing Text with Outline View
- Outline View Keystrokes

#### Pictures & Graphics

- Placing Pictures into Placeholders
- Cropping Photos
- Sizing Graphics
- Fixing Stretched/Squished Photos
- Where to Get Photos
- Crop to Shape & Aspect Ratio

#### Adjusting Photos & Graphics

- Picture Adjustments (such as converting to Black & White)
- Picture Border & Effects

#### Layered Objects

- Layered Object vs Placeholder Content
- Aligning
- Evenly Distributing
- Grouping
- Reordering Layered Objects

#### SmartArt

- Creating SmartArt
- Adding Text
- Layouts, Styles, & Shapes
- Converting Text into SmartArt
- SmartArt with Picture Placeholders

#### Shapes & Lines

- Adding Shapes
- Styling Shapes
- Adding Text to Shapes
- Resizing, Moving, & Rotating Shapes
- Connector Lines
- Text Boxes

#### Tables

- Creating Tables in PowerPoint
- Typing in Table Data
- Designing Tables
- Table Layout
- Sizing Tables & Columns/Rows
- Alignment & Spacing In a Table
- Adding or Removing Rows/Columns
- Merging Cells

#### Copying & Pasting Charts from Excel

- Importing a Chart from Excel
- Updating the Chart Data when the Excel File Changes

#### Transitions

- Adding Slide Transitions
- Transition Effect Options & Duration

#### Proofing & Editing

- Spell Check
- Slide Sorter View

#### Running a Presentation

- Starting & Stopping a Slide Show
- Ways to Navigate Slide Shows
- Tools to Use When Presenting
- Presenter Notes
- Presenter View
- Presenting in Microsoft Teams (PowerPoint Live)
- Presenter Notes in Zoom

#### Printing

- Choosing What Will Go On the Printed Page

#### Saving a PDF

- Why Make a PDF?
- Saving a PDF & Setting Options

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $249