# Microsoft PowerPoint Level II

Canonical URL: <https://www.careercenters.com/courses/advanced-powerpoint-classes>

## Overview

Develop your abilities with Microsoft PowerPoint’s most advanced features, like creating custom PowerPoint themes, adding excitement with animations, and how to better work with charts and tables from Microsoft Excel. You’ll start the course by learning to design custom PowerPoint themes that match your company’s corporate identity. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to include video, manage large presentations, and use animations to make your presentations stand out from the rest.

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### Free Retake & Premium Video Suite

Get a free retake of the course within 6 months of your first enrollment. Get access to our Advanced PowerPoint video tutorials, a $95 value, completely free when you sign up for PowerPoint Level II.

## What you'll learn

- Design Custom PowerPoint Themes
- Work with Theme Colors, Fonts, Backgrounds, & Slide Layouts
- Add Animations for Stand Out Presentations
- Incorporate Video
- Customize the Look of Charts & Animate Charts
- Bring in Tables from Excel
- Manage Large Presentations with Sections, Hidden Slides, and Custom Shows
- Collaborate with Others using Comments

## Prerequisites

Students must have PowerPoint proficiency equivalent to our [PowerPoint Level 1](https://www.graduateschool.edu/courses/powerpoint-1day) (PowerPoint for Business) course which covers adding images, inserting tables and charts, working with layered options, and other basic PowerPoint functionality.

## Curriculum

#### Designing & Customizing PowerPoint Themes

- Using the Slide Master
- The Slide Master vs Slide Layouts

#### Theme Colors

- Color: Best Practices
- Creating a Color Theme

#### Theme Fonts

- Fonts: Best Practices
- Creating a Font Theme
- Using Non-Standard Fonts

#### Slide Backgrounds

- Changing an Individual Slide’s Background
- Changing Slide Backgrounds in the Slide Master

#### Styling Text & Lists

- Line Spacing Options
- Styling Text & Lists

#### Slide Layouts

- Customizing Slide Layouts
- Adding a Logo to Every Slide
- Creating & Deleting Slide Layouts

#### Header & Footer

- Adding Header & Footer Content
- Header & Footer Placeholders on the Slide Master

#### Saving a Custom PowerPoint Theme

- Creating a Custom PowerPoint Theme
- Setting the Default Theme

#### Animations

- Transitions vs Animations
- Animating Bullet Points
- Animating Objects
- Entrance, Emphasis, & Exit Animations
- Multiple Animations on One Object
- Ordering Multiple Animations

#### Animating Charts

- Animating a Bar Chart
- Animating a Line Chart

#### Morph Transition

- How Morph is Different Than All Other Transitions
- How To Use the Morph Transition

#### Adding Video

- Adding Online Videos (like YouTube videos)
- Adding Video Files

#### Charts

- Copying/Pasting Charts From Excel
- Updating the Chart Data
- Formatting Charts & Chart Elements
- Saving a Chart Template

#### Bringing in Tables from Excel

- Bringing in a Table from Excel with a Link
- Bringing in a Table from Excel with No Link

#### Links

- Linking to a Website: Adding a Hyperlink
- Creating an Email Link

#### Quick Access Toolbar

- What is the Quick Access Toolbar?
- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

#### Hiding Slides

- Managing Content with Hidden Slides
- Printing With & Without Hidden Slides
- Saving a PDF With & Without Hidden Slides

#### Custom Shows

- Creating a Custom Show
- Presenting a Custom Show
- Printing a Custom Show

#### Commenting

- Adding Comments
- Replying to & Resolving Comments

#### Sections

- Using Sections to Group Content in Large Presentations

## Schedule
- Jun 11, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC
- Aug 13, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC
- Sep 16, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — NYC

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $249