PowerPoint for Beginners – Program & Animation Basics FREE

Let me welcome you to the course with this little lection. I will show you a few basics and explain who I am.

In this lecture I want to explain the goals we have in this course and explain who is this course designed for. This course is for any aspiring or beginning powerpoint user, designer or online entrepreneur who would like to expand his skillset by proper powerpoint usage :)

In this lecture you can download the example slides created in this course.

Let me explain you what PowerPoint actually is. It's a part of the Microsoft Office suite and I would like to point a few things about that in this lecture.

This will be my opinion on why you should learn PowerPoint and why I believe that it is worth adding this software into your portfolio as a new skill asset.

It is important to understand the differences between PowerPoint versions. With this leture I would like to explain what is the difference between PowerPoint 2007, powerpoint 2010, powerpoint 2011 for mac, powerpoint 2013, powerpoint 2016 and Powerpoint 365 for the Office 365 subscription-based version.

In the first lecture of this section we are going to explore PowerPoints interface and how everything is organized and placed.

Let's start with the basics - you have to be comfortable adding slides. Slides are the core workspace of PowerPoint, so you better learn to add them :)

This alongside adding text boxes is the most essential and powerful PowerPoint feature there is. Don't underestimate it since we can modify the looks or any shape. Let's learn how to add them properly into out workspace.

Shapes can be edited multiple ways - by editing I mean adding effects, changing their color, changing size, selecting if we want an outline or not. All that is both available from the powerpoint ribbon and in the advanced options panel we can open up.

Adding text boxes separate to adding shapes is the second most important functionaly of PowerPoint in my opinion. We will learn how to utilize it to it's fullest potential

I need to explain to you where does the difference between text inside a shape layer and text inside a text box lie. It's crucial to understand the distinction between them as this will make or break your entire powerpoint workflow.

This will be a little 3-question quiz to check for yourself if you did pay attention to the details :)

Each object we use inside powerpoint can possibly have it's own specific options. I would like to explain where to find them, which of them are unique to each object and what do we make of it.

One of the simpliest but most enjoyable things inside the program is saving, exporting and preparing our presentations for publishing. With this lecture I would like to show you how to do this

We finally arrive at the end of our section where I would like you to design your first high quality powerpoint slide. You can either do the same design I do or try to create something like this on your own!

In those lectures I would like to give a humble promotion and shoutout to my premium classes. I don't hard promote or force you to any purchase, I just wanted to showcase what else do I have for people who are serious about getting better at PowerPoint and will be interested in any of my classes I offer. Thank you for listening out :)

Let me start this section by explaining you where animations in PowerPoints are and what do they apply to our objects. Obviously animations, but what kind of and how can we instantly preview it.

Apart from animations we do have Transitions in powerpoint. Transitions are the fade-through animations between two slides. We can not only select from a range of prepared transitions, but we can also extend their duration.

In powerpoint we have several types of animations, from enterance, emphasis, exit and motion paths. All have their place and usage.

Something that is essential and very useful while working with animation is the Animation Pane. Apart from that I would like to talk what we can achieve by changing the starting options of our animations, for exmaple from "With Previous" to "On Mouse Click" or to "After Previous".

This will be our second quiz where we will confirm if you payed attention to the lectures :)

We can freely change the position and timings of our animations. In this tutorial I woudl like to bring this topic closer to you :)

We have the possibility to stack up animations on top of each other into one object. With help of the feature called "Add animation" we can add multiple animations to one object in powerpoint.

Animations have their hidden, advanced properties which we can use to our advantage to make our animations stand out from the rest. Take a brief look at what is possible here.

Here I would like to take you for an animation spin and try to design a nice animation with you. This will put all we learned in use and be a great exercise for you L)

In those lectures I would like to give a humble promotion and shoutout to my premium classes. I don't hard promote or force you to any purchase, I just wanted to showcase what else do I have for people who are serious about getting better at PowerPoint and will be interested in any of my classes I offer. Thank you for listening out :)