Home > Basic
Home
  Search

Pricing

Basic Tutorial

PDF eBook
English Only

 FREE

Learn PowerPoint for Free™ - A Free Basic PowerPoint Training Tutorial - onPowerPoint

PowerPoint is the Swiss Army Knife® of software. It's useful for everything from scanning a photo to preparing HD images for use in a video. And you can also do presentations.

But at first glance, PowerPoint is a bit daunting, as the options and screens don't make much sense if all you've ever used is Word and Excel. If you're new to PowerPoint 2007 or PowerPoint 2010 you need the expert PowerPoint Training in this free tutorial.

PowerPoint 2013 News!  We've just evaluated PowerPoint 2013, and while it's more refined and elegant, there are NO MAJOR CHANGES in the way it works, compared with PowerPoint 2010.  Learn PowerPoint for Free will equip you to run the latest version when it becomes available.  Download now!

For the PowerPoint beginner - Learn the elemental basics of PowerPoint

Learn the basic concepts of PowerPoint in this training tutorial

Learn the Essentials for Free!

Steve Puffenberger, a 40+ year veteran of the audiovisual industry, takes the mystery out of PowerPoint by showing you how to make a basic presentation slide deck. You'll learn the essential things needed to understand and use the PainFree Principles outlined in our comprehensive PainFree Presentations™ training.

This free training tutorial, covers PowerPoint at its most basic level, all wrapped up in a single quickly downloadable PDF tutorial that should take less than an hour to complete. When finished you'll have a short PowerPoint presentation about yourself that you can show to your friends or colleagues.

Experienced with PowerPoint? There's always something new!

If you are someone who has tried learning PowerPoint once or twice and found it difficult and confusing, here's the answer to that! Or if you think you’ve mastered PowerPoint, are you sure you got it right?  It costs you nothing to find out.

This tutorial lays the groundwork for the expanded PowerPoint formatting training you'll find in the Set PowerPoint Free tutorial, and the comprehensive training for designing "content that works on the screen" found in PainFree Presentations.

onPowerPoint.com's advanced training is based on this basic PowerPoint tutorial

Learn PowerPoint for Free is free to residents of US and Canada

Download Now!

There's nothing stopping you from starting to learn PowerPoint the right way. Just fill out our request form. It's totally free to residents of the US and Canada. You will not be added to a mailing list, nor will your address be sold.

Of course we're giving it away free to residents of North America in the hope that you'll come back and buy the expanded Set PowerPoint Free version, our PainFree Presentations book, or our onPowerPoint presentation makeover services.  If you'd care to donate to cover expenses, you can do so here. 

If you're from a country other than the US or Canada, you're welcome to purchase Set PowerPoint Free, which includes this basic tutorial along with the advanced content.

IMPORTANT: This is an interactive PDF tutorial, written in english, which may be printed or viewed. Adobe Reader and PowerPoint 2007 or 2010 is required. We highly recommend printing the guide and then completing the exercises within PowerPoint. To save paper, you might consider using two computers, one to view the PDF, and the other to complete the exercises in PowerPoint. If you do not have two computers, shrink the PowerPoint and PDF reader windows so you can see both, then complete the exercises in PowerPoint while you read the PDF.
NO POWERPOINT TEMPLATES OR CONTENT ASSETS ARE INCLUDED.