# PowerPoint Level II (Self-Paced)

Canonical URL: <https://training.sdfm.org/courses/self-paced-powerpoint-level-ii>

## Overview

Elevate your PowerPoint expertise at your own pace with this advanced self-paced course. Explore creating custom templates using Slide Master, applying sophisticated animations, and refining charts and tables for professional presentations.

You’ll also get lifetime access to our comprehensive PowerPoint video library, featuring hours of high-quality content viewable on desktop, tablet, or mobile — a $95 value included for free.

## What you'll learn

- Create and manage Slide Master layouts for consistent branding across presentations
- Design custom PowerPoint themes with personalized color palettes, fonts, and reusable backgrounds
- Animate text, charts, and objects using entrance, emphasis, exit effects, and the Morph transition
- Incorporate video, hyperlinks, and dynamic charts and tables from Excel for interactive presentations
- Customize workflows with hidden slides, custom shows, sections, and the Quick Access Toolbar
- Collaborate and finalize presentations using commenting tools, PDF export, and optimized print settings

## Prerequisites

Students must have PowerPoint proficiency equivalent to our PowerPoint Level 1 (PowerPoint for Business) course which covers adding images, inserting tables and charts, working with layered options, and other basic PowerPoint functionality.

## Curriculum

#### Designing & Customizing PowerPoint Themes

- Using the Slide Master
- The Slide Master vs Slide Layouts

#### Theme Colors

- Color: Best Practices
- Creating a Color Theme

#### Theme Fonts

- Fonts: Best Practices
- Creating a Font Theme
- Using Non-Standard Fonts

#### Slide Backgrounds

- Changing an Individual Slide’s Background
- Changing Slide Backgrounds in the Slide Master

#### Styling Text & Lists

- Line Spacing Options
- Styling Text & Lists

#### Slide Layouts

- Customizing Slide Layouts
- Adding a Logo to Every Slide
- Creating & Deleting Slide Layouts

#### Header & Footer

- Adding Header & Footer Content
- Header & Footer Placeholders on the Slide Master

#### Saving a Custom PowerPoint Theme

- Creating a Custom PowerPoint Theme
- Setting the Default Theme

#### Animations

- Transitions vs Animations
- Animating Bullet Points
- Animating Objects
- Entrance, Emphasis, & Exit Animations
- Multiple Animations on One Object
- Ordering Multiple Animations

#### Animating Charts

- Animating a Bar Chart
- Animating a Line Chart

#### Morph Transition

- How Morph is Different Than All Other Transitions
- How To Use the Morph Transition

#### Adding Video

- Adding Online Videos (like YouTube videos)
- Adding Video Files

#### Charts

- Copying/Pasting Charts From Excel
- Updating the Chart Data
- Formatting Charts & Chart Elements
- Saving a Chart Template

#### Bringing in Tables from Excel

- Bringing in a Table from Excel with a Link
- Bringing in a Table from Excel with No Link

#### Links

- Linking to a Website: Adding a Hyperlink
- Creating an Email Link

#### Quick Access Toolbar

- What is the Quick Access Toolbar?
- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

#### Hiding Slides

- Managing Content with Hidden Slides
- Printing With & Without Hidden Slides
- Saving a PDF With & Without Hidden Slides

#### Custom Shows

- Creating a Custom Show
- Presenting a Custom Show
- Printing a Custom Show

#### Commenting

- Adding Comments
- Replying to & Resolving Comments

#### Sections

- Using Sections to Group Content in Large Presentations

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $249