1-Day Microsoft PowerPoint Tips and Techniques Course

Course Overview

This course is created, owned, and trained by its original creator, Mr. Alaster Leong, and co-trained by Ms. Ow Yeong Yin Leng. Learn from the original creator.

Do you know:

why your presentation is unable to cover the entire screen when running a slide show?
how to control the presentation without going through sequential slides?
how to place the company logo to all slides without copy and paste to individual slide
how to integrate other Microsoft Office document (i.e. Excel Spreadsheet) during presentation without switching to other applications?

These are just some of the commonly-asked questions asked by many learners.

While this PowerPoint Tips and Techniques course isn’t intentionally created to be a “WOW” course by the original creator, Mr. Alaster Leong, the tips and techniques you’ll learn may still garner plenty of ‘impressed’ and ‘excited’ reactions during the course.

If you are looking to enhance your ordinary PowerPoint slides by transforming them into visually appealing and engaging presentations, and make every of your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations a breeze, this is the course for you.

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to:

Apply basic guidelines for creating professional slides
Speed up development
Create a menu system to control the entire presentation
Integrate with other Microsoft Office document, such as Excel chart, in the presentation
Include multimedia, such as video, in the presentation
Apply useful tips and techniques to make presentation a breeze

Who Should Attend

This course is for anyone who needs to prepare PowerPoint presentation slides and/or conduct presentation, e.g. sales, human resources, marketing & communications, finance, business development, educator, students etc.

Methodology

This is a hands-on practical course. Trainer will walk through the topic step-by-step. Learners will be provided with exercise files on every topic to effectively apply what have been taught. A short Q & A session will be available after each topic.

Prerequisites

Intermediate Microsoft PowerPoint skills or active Microsoft PowerPoint user

Things To Bring

A Windows operating system laptop with Microsoft PowerPoint version 2010 or higher or Office 365 installed (personal laptop is preferred as some company laptops may have security restrictions).
Laptop power adaptor and a USB mouse.

Course Information

Fee

SGD 420.00 (Nett)

Absentees will be charged the full course fee

Includes lunch and two coffee breaks with light snacks, unless otherwise stated

Time

9:00am to 5:00pm (7 hours)

Mode

Classroom @ Hotel

Dates

12 Mar 2025
2 May 2025
9 Jul 2025
23 Sep 2025
26 Nov 2025

Important Note

Closed Class

Important Note

Closed Class

Why Learn With Us?

Course Outline

1. Basic Guidelines for Creating Professional Slides

2. Presentation Tips & Techniques

3. SmartArt Tips & Techniques

4. Object & Shape Tips & Techniques

5. Effect Tips & Techniques

6. Animation Tips & Techniques

7. Integrating with other Microsoft Office Documents

8. Multimedia Tips & Techniques

Our Dedicated Lead IT Trainer - Mr. Alaster Leong

This course is created, owned and trained by Mr. Alaster Leong. Learn from the original creator of this course.

Alaster has been training adult learners in IT in both the private and public sectors since 1986. Alaster’s career before training centred around IT for over 12 years, as he held various roles within software development. He has earned himself a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification and he is an existing Trainer approved by People’s Association (PA). He was also a former Associate Trainer with the Civil Service College.

He specialises on training Microsoft Applications and Adobe Photoshop. Based on his vast experience and keeping abreast with the emerging trends, tools and technologies with the IT industry, especially software, he has extensively involved in developing several course outlines and course materials and conducting training to equip learners with skills in-demand or likely to be most important in the jobs of the future work.

Alaster constantly explore innovative and effective ways in imparting knowledge and engaging his learners at the same time. He also focuses his training on providing practical solutions to real-life problems, especially Excel. He is more than willing to help overcome various problems faced by his learners that arise in their workplace in applying their newly-acquired knowledge and skills any time after the course. He is well-known for his dedication, commitment and passion to training that makes him well-liked and appreciated by his learners.