The PowerPoint Fundamentals training gives you a solid foundation to create presentations that durably mark your audience. Over a full day, you discover the PowerPoint environment, professional slide creation, text and graphic formatting, and the first reflexes for smooth broadcasting. A pivotal skill in almost all jobs in French speaking Switzerland.
Mastering PowerPoint means giving yourself every chance to convince at each presentation
In Swiss companies, producing a clean and impactful PowerPoint presentation has become a prerequisite in management, sales, communication and training. This PowerPoint training concentrates on real world cases: sales presentation, training material, project review, executive pitch.
Module 1: Basic functions
Module 2: Managing Text
Module 3: Managing simple graphic objects
Module 4: Using Themes and Templates
PowerPoint remains the most used presentation tool in business. Whether for an executive committee, sales pitch, project review or internal training, knowing how to produce clear and convincing slides directly makes a difference. The PowerPoint Fundamentals training delivers these foundations in one intensive day.
The training starts with a complete hands on use of the PowerPoint interface. You then learn to create and structure slides: layout choice, information hierarchy, alternation between text and visual slides.
The course places significant focus on PowerPoint formatting. You learn to apply text styles, hierarchize information visually, choose consistent colors, insert images and position them correctly.
The training also introduces PowerPoint broadcasting tools: presenter view, slide navigation, live keyboard shortcuts. These foundations give the ease to approach an oral presentation confidently.
The PowerPoint Fundamentals training is designed for managers, sales staff, communicators, trainers, project managers, self employed professionals and any profile presenting regularly.
At our ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this PowerPoint Fundamentals training runs over one day. You build your own presentation in session and leave with course materials.
Who is this PowerPoint Fundamentals training for?
For anyone producing PowerPoint presentations who wants to master the basics. No specific prior knowledge is required.
Which PowerPoint version is used?
Microsoft PowerPoint 365. Features apply to PowerPoint 2021 and 2019 too.
How long to master PowerPoint?
The basics are acquired in a structured day.
What is the natural next step?
The PowerPoint Broadcasting course or PowerPoint Making your presentation effective course.
Is this training held in Geneva?
Yes, at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.
Does this training prepare for a certification?
This is non certifying. For a PowerPoint certification, the MOS PowerPoint Associate course takes the relay.
Do I need PowerPoint installed to follow the training?
The training environment is provided. Microsoft 365 or PowerPoint 2021 license is recommended for practice afterwards.
Beginner or occasional PowerPoint users wanting to acquire solid bases to produce effective professional presentations. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
A salesperson discovering PowerPoint and producing her first professional client pitch. A trainer rigorously structuring pedagogical content. A manager animating internal meetings with clear slides. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
This training combines well with PowerPoint Broadcasting for delivery, impactful presentation for design, and public speaking for oral. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
PowerPoint remains the universal presentation tool in business, despite competition from Keynote and Google Slides. Mastering fundamentals saves hours on each presentation and lays bases for advanced uses (Designer, Copilot). This training proposes rigorous initiation applicable from return.
Most participants report a noticeable effect from the first week of return, with deeper anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice on real files. The course closes with a personalized practice plan calibrated on your professional context, including milestones and review prompts to ensure the techniques become permanent.
The tools and techniques covered in this course are used daily by millions of professionals across Geneva and Lausanne organizations. Mastery of these features transforms repetitive work into efficient routine, freeing time for higher-value activities. This training relies on real professional cases and offers an outfitted approach calibrated for the 2025-2026 evolutions of the platform.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Which version is covered?
The course focuses on PowerPoint 365 and 2021. Modern features (Designer, Copilot) are introduced.
Suitable for true beginners?
Yes, no specific prerequisite.
Are Designer and Copilot integrated?
Yes, Designer is introduced. Copilot is mentioned per available license.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
