Course

Microsoft PowerPoint fundamentals («MP1»)

This Microsoft PowerPoint course will teach you the basics of using PowerPoint to create impressive and professional presentations. Topics such as data sharing, design, animation and visualisation are also covered.
Duration 2 days
Price 1'140.–
Course documents Digital Digicomp courseware

Course facts

Key Learnings
  • Gaining the basic skills to use PowerPoint and creating professional presentations
  • Understanding design elements and animating presentations
  • Mastering data exchange (slides, content from other applications, etc.)
  • Printing and/or delivering presentations
Content

1 The PowerPoint workspace

  • Workspace elements
  • The views

2 Managing presentations

  • Create a new presentation
  • Saving a presentation

3 Designing slides

  • Slide layouts
  • Entering text
  • Shapes
  • Tables

4 Visualising information

5 Graphical elements

  • (Online) images
  • Photo album
  • Pictograms (Office 2019/365 only)
  • WordArt
  • SmartArt graphics

6 Charts

  • Creating simple charts
  • Chart types
  • Entering data
  • Editing a chart

7 Applying themes

  • Design templates (themes)
  • Design colours
  • Theme ideas (Office 2019/365 only)

8 Animations

  • Slide transitions

9 Data sharing

  • From PowerPoint to PowerPoint
  • From PowerPoint to Word
  • From Excel to PowerPoint
  • Save object as graphic

10 Spelling

  • Setting the language
  • Checking and correcting text
  • AutoCorrect

11 Printing

  • Set up page
  • Header and footer
  • Printing your presentation (slides, handouts)

12 Target audience presentations

13 Set up, start, and control a screen presentation

Target audience

This course is aimed at users who want to get to know PowerPoint from scratch or have already worked a bit with it and now want to deepen their knowledge.

Requirements

There are no formal prerequisites for this course. However, basic computer skills are recommended to maximise the benefits of the course.

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Feb
2025
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Feb
2025
Lausanne
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2025
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2025
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2025
Zürich
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2025
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2025
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2025
Zürich
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Sep
2025
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2025
Berne
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Sep
2025
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2025
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2025
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2025
Lausanne
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Nov
2025
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Nov
2025
Zürich
German
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CHF 1’140.-
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26
Nov
2025
27
Nov
2025
Berne
German
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CHF 1’140.-
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CHF 1’140.-
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26
Nov
2025
27
Nov
2025
Basel
German
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CHF 1’140.-
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CHF 1’140.-
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27
Nov
2025
28
Nov
2025
Geneva
French
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CHF 1’140.-
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CHF 1’140.-
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Feb
2025
7
Feb
2025
Lausanne
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Further courses

Interactive presentations and templates with Microsoft PowerPoint («MP2»)

1 day
CHF
700.–

Storytelling with PowerPoint («MPZGP»)

1 day
CHF
750.–

Visualizing data with Excel («ME3»)

1 day
CHF
700.–