Microsoft PowerPoint Training Courses
A great presentation can change minds, win business, and advance careers. SkillForge's live PowerPoint training courses teach you to design slides that communicate clearly, look professional, and hold your audience's attention — without needing a graphic design background.
What our PowerPoint courses cover: Introduction courses cover slide creation and layout, text and image formatting, working with themes and templates, transitions, animations, and delivering a presentation. Advanced courses go deeper into slide master design, custom animations and motion paths, embedding video and audio, interactive presentations, and integrating PowerPoint with other Microsoft 365 tools.
All courses are taught live by expert instructors in small groups. You'll build real presentations during class that you can use immediately. Available as public online sessions or private team training.
PowerPoint Courses
3 courses available — all taught live by expert instructors.
In this Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced Training course, students will take their existing PowerPoint skills, and presentations, to the next level. They'll learn how to customize design templates, add tables and charts to their presentations, work with multimedia, build advanced slide transitions and animations, collaborate with others on a presentation, and secure and distribute a presentation.
In this Microsoft PowerPoint Introduction Training course, you will learn how to create and deliver an engaging PowerPoint presentation. You will: Identify the basic features and functions of PowerPoint. Develop a PowerPoint presentation. Perform text formatting. Add and arrange graphical elements. Modify graphical elements and prepare to deliver your presentation.
Generative AI tools such as Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT make it faster and easier to plan, write, and enhance business presentations. This course shows professionals how to use AI to brainstorm topics, generate slide text, create images, and develop presenter notes and handouts. Learners practice prompting techniques, refine AI‑generated content for clarity and professionalism, and import structured outlines directly into PowerPoint. They also explore how to use AI‑assisted web search to strengthen presentations with supporting facts and examples. By the end of the course, participants will have a streamlined workflow for using free AI tools to create polished, engaging presentations with greater speed and confidence.
Note: Students in this class will create ChatGPT, Gemini and/or Copilot accounts if they don't already have one. Access to a valid email and cell phone in order to complete authentication during setup will be needed to participate in hands-on exercises.
Why Choose SkillForge for PowerPoint Training?
We've been delivering expert-led training since 2010. Here's what sets us apart.
Learn layout, color, and typography principles that make slides look professional without a design background.
Get real-time feedback and tips from an experienced instructor throughout the class.
Build actual presentations during class so you leave with work you can use immediately.
Personalized attention in every session.
Join an open-enrollment class or book a private session for your team.
Demonstrate your PowerPoint skills with a SkillForge certificate.
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