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Microsoft PowerPoint Essentials: Slides That Look Professional

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What you'll be able to do
  • Build a presentation with slides, layouts and a consistent theme.
  • Design clean, readable slides (the 10/20/30 rule).
  • Add pictures, charts and video, with alt text.
  • Use transitions and animations without overdoing it.
  • Present confidently with speaker notes and Presenter View, then share as PDF or video.
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Slides, layouts and themes

In simple words

A presentation is like a picture book you show to a group. Each page is a slide. You pick a style for the whole book so every page matches.

Key facts
  • Home > New Slide adds a slide; Home > Layout changes its structure (Title Slide, Title and Content, Two Content, etc.).
  • Design tab: choose a theme (colours + fonts) so every slide matches.
  • PowerPoint's default slide size is widescreen 16:9; Design > Slide Size changes it.
  • PowerPoint is included with Office 365 Education for eligible students with a school email (see course 13.1).
Step by step
  1. Open PowerPoint and choose Blank Presentation.
  2. Click the Design tab and pick one theme.
  3. Click Home, then Layout, and make the first slide a Title Slide.
  4. Click Home, then New Slide, to add three Title and Content slides.
  5. Add a fifth slide as your closing slide.
  6. Type a short title on each slide.
  7. Check: five slides, one theme, and the same fonts and colours on every slide.
Watch on YouTube
PowerPoint tutorial for beginnersKevin Stratvert · YouTube · youtube.com

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LESSON 01Slides, layouts and themes
LESSON 01 / APP DEMO / AI VOICE00:00 / 01:00
Read the video script
[Screen: New Slide → Layout menu] "New slide, pick a layout. Title here, points there."
[Screen: Design tab themes] "Pick one theme. Every slide matches. Instantly professional."
Try it now

Create 5 slides: a Title Slide, three Title and Content slides, and a closing slide. Apply one theme.

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I'm learning "Microsoft PowerPoint Essentials: Slides That Look Professional" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Slides, layouts and themes".

What the lesson teaches:
- Home > New Slide adds a slide; Home > Layout changes its structure (Title Slide, Title and Content, Two Content, etc.).
- Design tab: choose a theme (colours + fonts) so every slide matches.
- PowerPoint's default slide size is widescreen 16:9; Design > Slide Size changes it.
- PowerPoint is included with Office 365 Education for eligible students with a school email (see course 13.1).

The exercise I'm working on:
Create 5 slides: a Title Slide, three Title and Content slides, and a closing slide. Apply one theme.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.
I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Slides, layouts and themes" from the course "Microsoft PowerPoint Essentials: Slides That Look Professional".

Here's what the lesson says:
A presentation is like a picture book you show to a group. Each page is a slide. You pick a style for the whole book so every page matches.

The activity:
Create 5 slides: a Title Slide, three Title and Content slides, and a closing slide. Apply one theme.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.
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My notes
02

Design rules: less is more

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03

Pictures, charts, video and alt text

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04

Transitions and animations

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05

Presenting like a pro

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06

Sharing your presentation

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Final project

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Quiz

  1. What is the default slide size?

  2. What is the 10/20/30 rule?

  3. Transition vs animation?

  4. What does Presenter View show you?

  5. What is alt text for?

  6. How do you turn a deck into a video?

EX

Final exam

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CE

Certificate

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