Creating Persuasive Presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint (Advanced)

Creating Persuasive Presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint (Advanced)
  • Event Category: Digital literacy
  • Lecturer: Vilma Eidukynaite
  • Price: 85 €. Duration: 8 academic hours
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ABOUT THE SEMINAR

This training is intended for participants who already have basic experience working with Microsoft PowerPoint and wish to deepen their knowledge. The aim of the training is to introduce advanced MS PowerPoint features that enable the creation of modern presentations, demonstrate engaging information layout and design solutions, introduce infographic creation and its benefits, and teach how to create infographics and presentations using visual tools.

Participants will be introduced to the new “Interactive Presentation” (Zoom) command available in MS PowerPoint 2019 or MS Office 365, which allows the creation of highly engaging presentations and the use of the Morph slide transition effect. The training is focused on technical presentation creation tools.

SEMINAR PROGRAM
  • Analysis of the most common mistakes and tips on how to create persuasive, engaging presentations.
  • General principles of presentation preparation.
  • Creating interactive presentations from scratch and adapting them.
  • Template creation. Standard templates. Creating a custom template:
  • Slide masters and layouts.
  • Design. Color schemes. Variants. XML and THMX files.
  • Structuring information on slides:
  • Text, graphic elements, charts, diagrams.
  • Typography. Fonts, installation, and compatibility.
  • Shapes and their formatting options for creating modern-looking presentations.
  • Advantages of vector files.

Tables:

  • Three different methods of creating tables.
  • Copying tables from Microsoft Excel.
  • Custom-designed tables.
  • Using animations to create impressive presentations.
  • Object animations. Slide transition effects.
  • Morph slide transition effect (PowerPoint 2019 or MS Office 365).
  • New feature (PowerPoint 2019 or MS Office 365): Interactive Zoom.
  • Audio and video files in presentations. Common issues and solutions.
  • Applying special effects. Playing video within shapes.
  • Navigation between slides.
  • Merging and aligning presentations.
  • Presentation delivery features. Creating handouts.

About the Lecturer

  • Lecturer: Vilma Eidukynaite

Lector Vilma Eidukynaitė is a certified Microsoft trainer and holds a Master’s degree in Software Systems Engineering. She has more than 17 years of experience delivering both closed and open IT-related seminars and participates in EU-funded projects aimed at improving the qualifications of employees in business enterprises and public sector institutions.