PowerPoint 2021 Basic-PowerPoint 2021 Basic

PowerPoint 2021 Basic - Course Outline

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This course outline for <strong>Microsoft PowerPoint 2021 Basic</strong> covers essential skills for creating, managing, organizing, and delivering presentations in PowerPoint 2021.

Learners begin with <strong>PowerPoint fundamentals</strong>, including understanding the PowerPoint interface, creating new presentations from a blank file or template, opening and saving presentations (including AutoSave, Save As, and saving to different formats), and using AutoRecover settings to restore work. The course also introduces navigation and working with different views such as Normal, Outline, Slide Sorter, and Reading View. Printing features are covered, including previewing, printing, and selecting print options. Users also learn to use and customize the <strong>Quick Access Toolbar</strong>, share presentations via sharing tools or email attachments, access help using the Tell Me field and Help pane, and properly close presentations and exit PowerPoint.

Next, the course focuses on <strong>working with presentations</strong>, teaching how to insert, delete, and change slide layouts, and how to import slides from outlines or other PowerPoint files. Core editing skills include cut/copy/paste, undo/redo/repeat actions, and working with slide notes (viewing and printing notes pages). It also covers resizing panes, zooming, and managing comments (adding, replying, reviewing, deleting). Additional tools include comparing presentations and accepting/rejecting revisions, running spell and grammar checks, using Find and Replace, setting and editing file properties (including authorship), and inspecting/protecting files (mark as final, password protection).

The <strong>organization</strong> section teaches outlining, expanding/collapsing headings, rearranging content, creating and managing sections, using Slide Sorter to rearrange slides, duplicating and copying slides, and moving, hiding, and unhiding slides.

Finally, learners develop <strong>slideshow delivery</strong> skills: starting and navigating slide shows, switching programs, using slideshow tools (laser pointer, annotations, zoom, options), working with Presenter View (notes, timer, controls), creating custom slide shows, converting presentations to video, and presenting online including inviting attendees and ending broadcasts.

Keywords

Microsoft PowerPoint 2021

PowerPoint basics

presentation creation

PowerPoint interface

slide layouts

views and navigation

Quick Access Toolbar

comments and collaboration

sections and slide organization

slideshow delivery and Presenter View