# PowerPoint Level II (Self-Paced)

Canonical URL: <https://www.creativelive.com/classes/powerpoint-level-ii-self-paced>

## Overview

Advance your Microsoft PowerPoint skills in this self-paced course built for those ready to go beyond the basics. You’ll learn how to create a reusable theme and template, using Slide Master to control the design and formatting of entire presentations with greater consistency and efficiency.

The course emphasizes both practical functionality and time-saving workflows, helping you build a stronger PowerPoint skill set for real-world projects. Along with the lessons, you’ll receive lifetime access to a PowerPoint video suite featuring high-quality, custom content that can be viewed on desktop, tablet, or mobile.

## What you'll learn

- Create presentations from templates and customize layouts, themes, and content structure
- Edit text, bullets, and numbered lists with Outline View and advanced formatting tools
- Insert and enhance images, SmartArt, and shapes using effects, cropping, and alignment options
- Format tables, add connector lines, and import Excel charts to display data
- Apply transitions, manage presenter notes, and use tools for live or virtual presentations
- Save, print, and export presentations to PDF with professional-use options

## 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