# PowerPoint Level II

Canonical URL: <https://www.creativelive.com/classes/powerpoint-advanced>

## Overview

In this advanced PowerPoint course, you'll learn how to create a reusable PowerPoint theme and template to control the design of entire presentations using Slide Master. You'll also enhance your presentations with animations, gain greater control over charts and tables, and much more.

This course includes our PowerPoint video suite with several hours of premium content, available on desktop, tablet, or mobile with lifetime access, included at no additional cost.

## What you'll learn

- Create and manage Slide Master layouts to ensure consistent branding across entire presentations
- Design custom PowerPoint themes, including personalized color palettes, fonts, and reusable backgrounds
- Animate bullet points, charts, and objects using entrance, emphasis, and exit effects, and explore the Morph transition
- Integrate video, hyperlinks, and dynamic charts and tables imported from Excel for interactive presentations
- Customize presentation workflows with hidden slides, custom shows, sections, and the Quick Access Toolbar
- Collaborate and finalize projects with built-in commenting tools, PDF export options, and optimized printing settings

## Prerequisites

Students must have PowerPoint proficiency equivalent to our [PowerPoint Level 1](https://www.graduateschool.edu/courses/powerpoint-1day) (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

## Schedule
- Jun 11, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online
- Aug 13, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online
- Sep 16, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $249