Basic Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 is a foundation course in building presentations, from planning content, formatting text and Thai fonts and using pictures, SmartArt and Excel charts to themes, the slide master, animation, Morph and presenting with Presenter View. It suits staff who make slides, students, teachers and people moving from older versions of PowerPoint.
A good presentation is not measured by how many effects it has, but by how quickly the audience understands the message. Many people have used PowerPoint for years and still lose time aligning text slide by slide, find their Thai fonts change on another computer, add the logo to every page by hand, or paste charts from Excel that do not update with the data. These problems disappear once you know PowerPoint's basic tools in a structured way.
This course lays the foundations of PowerPoint in Microsoft 365, from the window and file handling, planning the content, formatting text and fonts, pictures, icons, shapes, SmartArt, and tables and charts from Excel. Learners then use themes, Designer and the slide master so every slide shares one style, add transitions, animation and Morph in moderation, insert video and Zoom, practise presenting with Presenter View and export to PDF or video. It finishes with a workshop that produces a complete presentation. (2 days, 6 hours per day, 12 hours in total, Beginner level.)
Course Details
This is the 2026 edition of the Basic Microsoft PowerPoint course. It runs for 2 days, 6 hours per day, 12 hours in total (09:00-16:00), as lectures with labs, at Beginner level. The content has been rewritten from PowerPoint 2019/2021 for PowerPoint in Microsoft 365 apps. It keeps the original topics of planning a presentation, fonts, pictures, SmartArt, organisation charts, charts, themes, the slide master, animation and presenting, and adds AutoSave with OneDrive, cloud fonts, Designer, Morph, Zoom, Speaker Coach and exporting to video. This is the foundation level before Advanced PowerPoint for Microsoft 365. Learners take home the course handbook, practice files and a sample template.
Section 1: Lab: The PowerPoint Window and Managing Files
Section 2: Lab: Planning a Presentation and Creating Slides
Section 3: Lab: Text and Fonts
Section 4: Lab: Pictures, Icons and Shapes
Section 5: Lab: SmartArt and Organisation Charts
Section 6: Lab: Tables and Charts from Excel
Section 7: Lab: Themes and Designer
Section 8: Lab: Slide Master Basics
Section 9: Lab: Transitions, Animations and Morph
Section 10: Lab: Video, Audio and Zoom
Section 11: Lab: Presenting and Exporting
Section 12: Workshop: A Complete Presentation
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The slide master is the parent slide that sets the fonts, colours, background, logo and text positions for every layout in the file. Open it from the View tab by choosing Slide Master. A change made once on the master flows to every slide that uses that layout. When you have finished, save the file as a PowerPoint template (.potx) to use as the starting point for future presentations.
The other computer does not have the font used in the file, so PowerPoint substitutes another one. On Windows, go to File, Options, the Save tab and tick Embed fonts in the file before saving, or use fonts available on every computer or Microsoft 365 cloud fonts. Some fonts cannot be embedded because of their licence, so send a PDF when the layout must stay exactly the same.
Start by defining the goal and the audience, then sum up the key message you want them to remember. Outline the story as headings in Outline view or Word before decorating anything. Use short text, pictures, SmartArt and charts instead of long paragraphs, keep one style with a theme and the slide master, add animation only where it helps explain, and rehearse in Presenter View before the real thing.
It suits staff who prepare slides for work, students, teachers and lecturers, and people moving from older versions of PowerPoint to Microsoft 365. You should know basic Windows, have some experience with Word or PowerPoint, and have a laptop with PowerPoint from Microsoft 365 or PowerPoint 2024.
You will be able to plan a storyline and build slides systematically, format text and Thai fonts for easy reading, use pictures, icons, SmartArt, tables and charts from Excel, apply themes, Designer and the slide master, add animation, Morph, video and Zoom, present with Presenter View and export to PDF or video. Participants who complete the training receive a Certificate of Completion with its own number, which can be verified online.
Yes. It can be run in-house for your team, with examples adapted to your own work, such as using your organisation's template and slide style in the workshop. You can request a quotation from this page, or contact us on LINE @itgenius or by phone on 02-570-8449.
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