Advanced ICDL®/ECDL® Creating Presentations Using Microsoft® PowerPoint

Good presentations depend on more than attractive slides. This Advanced ICDL®/ECDL® manual pairs practical PowerPoint instruction with guidance on planning for an audience, shaping clear content, and managing a presentation from preparation through delivery. Its step-by-step sections and revision breaks make it useful for learners building advanced application skills and teachers supporting that work.

From slide planning to confident delivery

The manual opens with presentation planning: audience, design, content, layout, readability, and the practical conditions of presenting. It then develops PowerPoint skills across slide masters and templates, graphical objects, charts and diagrams, multimedia, linking and embedding, importing and exporting, and slide-show management.

Explore the tools behind polished presentations

• Work with slide masters, layouts, and templates.
• Format shapes and images, use drawing tools, and arrange visual elements.
• Create and edit charts and diagrams.
• Add audio, video, screen recordings, and animation.
• Link or embed external objects and manage those connections.
• Set up custom shows, presenter view, and slide-show controls.

These topics connect individual PowerPoint features to the larger task of making a presentation coherent and usable. Guidance on contrast, concise content, accessibility, and audience needs complements the hands-on application instructions.

Practice as you progress

Revision sections follow the manual’s subject areas, giving learners opportunities to review the material. The publication identifies these as practice sections rather than official ICDL tests. Accompanying work files are also referenced for practising the demonstrated techniques.

For ICDL learners and instructors

Designed for students and teachers working with the Advanced ICDL syllabus, this guide can also serve as a structured reference for people who want to strengthen their PowerPoint presentation skills. It is an independent instructional manual, not a guarantee of exam results.