PowerPoint for Intermediate Users

This intermediate level one-day course is for anyone who has used PowerPoint before to create and alter simple presentations and would now like to develop their skills in order to create more dynamic presentations. By the end of the course, you will be confident in using PowerPoint to create professional looking presentations using master slides for consistency and adding different multimedia such as YouTube videos.

See our Master Slides Bitesize Live Online Learning page for details of our interactive 90-minute PowerPoint webinar.

Course overview

Bring your presentations to life with animation, multimedia, and smart design techniques that enhance engagement — not distract from your message.

This course is only available for private bookings, either for groups or as a one-to-one, held online via Zoom or in the classroom. Please get in touch for availability.

 

Why take this course?

  • Learn how to use animation and multimedia to keep your audience engaged
  • Save time with slide masters and layout templates
  • Add polish with professional design features and techniques
  • Perfect for those who want to take their presentation skills beyond the basics

Who is this course for?

This course is ideal for anyone comfortable with PowerPoint basics who wants to create smoother, more visually compelling presentations.

Duration

1 day

Classroom size

8 approx.

Location

Online | Classroom

Certificate

CPD Certified Certification

Experience

Intermediate

What you will learn

  • Create a visually exciting and stimulating PowerPoint presentation for your audience.
  • Make global changes to your presentation using master slides.
  • Create your own layouts to speed up the creation of presentations.
  • Apply corporate colours and logos to your slides.
  • Apply custom animation, including animating SmartArt and Charts.
  • Use hyperlinks and hot spots to make your presentations interactive.
  • Insert or link to video or audio clips, and decide which suits your needs best.
  • Embed videos or YouTube clips in your presentation.
  • Alter the way your sound and video plays back – including trimming, bookmarking, looping and splitting clips across slides.
  • Troubleshoot when the clip doesn’t work in your presentation or with your computer set up. Look at compatibility across versions of PowerPoint.
  • Possible fixes for poor playback quality.
  • Set up Custom Shows so that one presentation can be adjusted and used for multiple audiences.
  • Use Presenter View to stay ahead of your audience.
  • Turn your presentation into a movie which can be sent and played independently of PowerPoint.

How much does it cost?

Option 1

Standard

Standard course rate

£315

per person (+VAT)

Option 2

Public Sector

Discounted rate for public sector organisations, eg. councils

£265

per person (+VAT)

Option 3

Charity

Charities with 31+ staff

£210

per person (+VAT)

Group Training

If you have three or more learners, We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

Course timetable

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Session 1: Ensuring Consistency in your Presentations

Do you want to learn how to make your presentation shine? Then this session can help you. Make global changes to your presentation, and reuse/import slides from another presentation.

  • Creating Great Presentations
  • Reusing Slides
  • Themes
  • Master Slides: change colour schemes, bullets, alignment, adding a logo
  • Creating New Layouts
  • Saving your Design Theme to the Gallery

Session 2: Images, Sound and Video

Learn how to cut out a few bullets by taking a boring slide with bullet points and turning it into a professional diagram in seconds. Learn how to insert and trim your video so key points are remembered.

  • Inserting Pictures
  • Using SmartArt
  • Inserting Sound
  • Inserting and Trimming a Video
  • Embedding Objects

Session 3: Finishing Touches

This session will teach you how to make your presentation more dynamic and more memorable by adding appropriate animation and pleasing transitions. Learn how to create visual effects on your slides as you take your audience through a journey. You will also learn to run your presentation with all slides or just a few.

  • Slide Transitions
  • Custom Animation
  • Animating charts and SmartArt
  • Hyperlinks
  • Hide Slides
  • Preparing for your Presentation
  • Setting up a Custom Slide Show
  • Slide Show Set Up

Book now

Date Availability Number of places
27 Aug 2025 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM 4 spaces left

Please note that your booking is not secured until you checkout. All prices listed in the shopping cart are excluding VAT.

If you are booking at a discounted rate (for example, if you are from a charity), you will see this on the final stage of the shopping cart after you have set up your account or logged in. Discount codes can also be added on this final page.

Testimonials from Happy learners

Looking for private group training

If you have three or more learners, a private group training could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

The Happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course.

We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

Why choose Happy?

Because Happiness Works

Joy leads to success, every time,

Expert-Led & Hands-On

Our award-winning training isn’t just theoretical. It’s packed with practical tools you can use straight away.

B Corp Certified & Proud

We don’t just talk about impact — we live it. As a B Corp, we’re committed to making workplaces better for everyone.

Classroom or live online learning available

Both available for public and private dates.

The small print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven’t received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy’s HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

FAQs

What if I have a Mac?

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor).

 

For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. 

We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.

I work in the public sector or for a charity. How do I claim my discounted rate?

If you are eligible for a discounted rate you will see this on the final stage of the shopping cart after you have either logged in or set up your account (if you are a new user). Discount codes can also be added on this final page.

 

If you have any issues, get in touch with our friendly team for help.

I can’t attend my course. Can I rebook or cancel my place?

For our public dates, if you give us at least 14 days’ notice, you can rebook on another date or cancel your place at no extra cost. For less than 14 days, there is a charge – please see our Terms and Conditions for full details. If a colleague can take your place, no extra fee applies (even if it’s at the last minute).


For private group bookings, there is no charge if you give us at least 28 days’ notice. Cancellations after this time will incur 100% of the cost of the course. Please speak to your Account Manager or email speak to our friendly team.

What qualification do I receive after my course?

After attending your course, you will receive a certificate of attendance.   If your chosen course is certified by the CPD Certification Service, you can track and log your hours of learning using the myCPD Portal.

Where are your classroom courses held?

We are based at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. We are just 5 minutes’ walk from Aldgate and Aldgate East.

 

Please see our Contact Us page for a map and directions, or search on Google Maps for Happy Ltd.


For private group bookings, we can hold this course at Happy, inhouse at your workplace, or at a location of your choice, as long as you have a suitable space

What qualification do I receive after my course?

After attending your course, you will receive a certificate of attendance.

 

If your chosen course is certified by the CPD Certification Service, you can track and log your hours of learning using the myCPD Portal.