PowerPoint for Intermediate Users

Course Overview

This PowerPoint for Intermediate Users course can be held either in the classroom or online as Live Online Learning. The outline for both formats is the same, however the classroom session offers more time with the trainer to work on exercises, ask questions and complete activities.

We are currently only able to offer private bookings. Please get in touch for more information, pricing and availability.

What will you learn

By the end of this advanced level one-day PowerPoint course, you will be able to:

• Create a visually exciting and stimulating PowerPoint presentation for your audience.
• Make global changes to your presentation using master slides.
• Create your own layouts to speed up the creation of presentations.
• Apply corporate colours and logos to your slides.
• Apply custom animation, including animating SmartArt and Charts.
• Use hyperlinks and hot spots to make your presentations interactive.
• Insert or link to video or audio clips, and decide which suits your needs best.
• Embed videos or YouTube clips in your presentation.
• Alter the way your sound and video plays back – including trimming, bookmarking, looping and splitting clips across slides.
• Troubleshoot when the clip doesn’t work in your presentation or with your computer set up. Look at compatibility across versions of PowerPoint.
• Possible fixes for poor playback quality.
• Set up Custom Shows so that one presentation can be adjusted and used for multiple audiences.
• Use Presenter View to stay ahead of your audience.
• Turn your presentation into a movie which can be sent and played independently of PowerPoint.

Course timetable

Session 1: Ensuring Consistency in your Presentations

Do you want to learn how to make your presentation shine? Then this session can help you. Make global changes to your presentation, and reuse/import slides from another presentation.

• Creating Great Presentations
• Reusing Slides
• Themes
• Master Slides: change colour schemes, bullets, alignment, adding a logo
• Creating New Layouts
• Saving your Design Theme to the Gallery

 Session 2: Images, Sound and Video

Learn how to cut out a few bullets by taking a boring slide with bullet points and turning it into a professional diagram in seconds. Learn how to insert and trim your video so key points are remembered.

• Inserting Pictures
• Using SmartArt
• Inserting Sound
• Inserting and Trimming a Video
• Embedding Objects

Session 3: Finishing Touches

This session will teach you how to make your presentation more dynamic and more memorable by adding appropriate animation and pleasing transitions. Learn how to create visual effects on your slides as you take your audience through a journey. You will also learn to run your presentation with all slides or just a few.

• Slide Transitions
• Custom Animation
• Animating charts and SmartArt
• Hyperlinks
• Hide Slides
• Preparing for your Presentation
• Setting up a Custom Slide Show
• Slide Show Set Up

Information for Mac users

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.

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 training 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.

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.

Mac Users

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.

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.

If you have any questions or concerns, our friendly team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. You can leave a message on 020 7375 7300 or email us at hello@happy.co.uk.