PowerPoint 2021 Intermediate-PowerPoint 2021 Intermediate

PowerPoint 2021 Intermediate - Course Outline

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This Microsoft PowerPoint 2021 Intermediate course builds skills for creating more polished, engaging presentations. It begins with formatting and themes, covering how to apply and customize themes, format text (fonts, size, color, effects, alignment, case), create and style lists and columns, add hyperlinks, copy formatting with Format Painter, adjust slide backgrounds, set slide size, and work with templates (using, creating, and reusing custom templates).<br /><br />The course then moves into working with visual content. Participants learn to insert and edit pictures (including screenshots and background removal), apply corrections, color adjustments, artistic effects, compression, picture styles, and cropping options (aspect ratio and crop-to-shape). Next, it covers creating and managing graphic elements such as text boxes, shapes (inserting, modifying, editing points, merging shapes, formatting), WordArt, icons, and drawings with pen tools.<br /><br />To improve layout and design consistency, learners practice aligning, distributing, arranging, rotating, grouping, and layering objects using guides, gridlines, smart guides, and keyboard methods. The course also introduces SmartArt (insertion, conversion from lists, adding/reordering shapes, and formatting), and working with data visuals by inserting, formatting, and importing charts and tables.<br /><br />Animation and movement are addressed through slide transitions, object/text animations, motion paths, timing controls via the Animation Pane, and copying effects with Animation Painter. Zoom features are included for interactive navigation.<br /><br />Finally, the course teaches maintaining consistent design with Slide Masters, layouts, footers, backgrounds, multiple masters, and managing masters (rename, delete, preserve), plus Handout and Notes Masters for printing. It concludes with self-running presentation tools: inserting and editing video, adding or recording audio, using action buttons, recording/narrating slide shows, and setting up slide show options.

Keywords

PowerPoint 2021 intermediate

themes and templates

text formatting

Format Painter

slide backgrounds and slide size

picture editing and background removal

shapes and WordArt

object alignment and grouping

SmartArt charts and tables

animations transitions and Zoom