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Microsoft PowerPoint: Advanced Features

Audience: Academic staff, PG research, Professional staff, Research staff, Research supervisors

Date: Thursday 5 March 2026

Times: 15.15 to 16.30

Key details: Learn about PowerPoint tools to make your presentations more distinctive and effective.(Town centre classroom)

Qualifications needed

This course presumes a good working knowledge of PowerPoint and presumes you can easily manipulate slide layouts and work confidently with an array of different media as covered in the Essentials PowerPoint Skills course.

Course information

NOTE: This is a live, in-classroom session.

This course is aimed at users who wish to create and enhance highly customized presentations using a range of powerful techniques in Powerpoint  for Windows.

Skills covered include:

  • working with slide masters to create custom presentation designs and layouts
  • creating and using custom animation effectively
  • using the Morph transition and Zoom to flow your presentation
  • make more streamlined efficient presentations by integrating PP with other applications

It is recommended that this course is done as a series with the Essential Skills course.

What previous participants have said:

On Advanced course course only-

  • I got amazing training on how to create my PowerPoint using my own design. I also learnt how to be creative with presentations while being professional. I got lots of useful tips for creating great PowerPoint.

On combined Essentials and Advanced Skills courses-

  • The session would be very useful to someone who regularly uses PowerPoint for their teaching/research presentations who not only wants to improve the graphic aspects of their visual materials but is also interested in exploring ways to organise and deliver information that make it more engaging for their audience.
  • I learned how to use the PowerPoint presentation as a better communication tool.
  • I've been using PowerPoint for 15 years which should be long enough to know everything about it, but I realised that's far from the truth by attending this session.
  • Well worth the time invested to put in order all that I had just learned along the way into a structure so my communications will be more effective going forwards

Please note this course is not open to those on undegraduate or taught post-graduate programs.

Tutors

Sonny Evans

Venue

Butts Wynd PC Classroom: BWD 01

Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk