Welcome to Microsoft Powerpoint 2019 - Beginner.
This course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of Powerpoint and to give you the skills you need to begin to create presentations.

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Is this course for me?
If you are new to Powerpoint, or want to improve your understanding of the Powerpoint basics, then this course is for you. If you feel like you already know the basics, then why not try the Advanced course instead?

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How will I benefit from this course?
In this course you will learn how to:
  • Use the Ribbon, interface, and navigation options
  • Create a presentation and work with various features and commands to make it easier to work in PowerPoint
  • Review presentation editing options, text formatting options, various graphic options and insertion methods, how to add, edit, and format tables and charts in a presentation, and various presentation preparation and delivery options


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How long will it take?
 This course should take you around 5 hours to complete.

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How much does it cost?
 This course is free!

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Will I get a certificate at the end?
 Yes - you will be able to download a certificate once you have have completed all of the modules within the course.

The word START and a question mark in a circleHow do I start?
 Scroll to the top of the page and click on the       Join course       button. This will take you through to the course content. You don't need to complete the course in one go - you can always continue later from where you left off.