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Microsoft PowerPoint Introduction

Microsoft PowerPoint Introduction Course Duration: One Day

Target Audience:

Aimed at users new to PowerPoint who want to create their own presentations and modify or manipulate existing ones.

Course Objectives:

To acquire a good working knowledge of PowerPoint to create presentations according to best practice guidelines and enhance existing presentations.

Course Outline:

Introduction and Overview

  • Accessing PowerPoint
  • Using the Help Facility
  • Navigating within a Presentation

Parts of the Screen

  • Using the Ribbons
  • The Presentation Views
  • Task Panes
  • Smart Tags and Options button

Presentations

  • Creating and Saving Presentations
  • Opening and Closing Presentations
  • Document Properties

Slide Masters

  • Using / Viewing the Slide Master
  • Customising the Slide Master including Background Styles
  • Saving a Master Slide as a Template

Slides

  • Adding New Slides
  • Using Auto Layout Slides
  • Creating Customised Layouts
  • Using the Title and Body Section
  • Entering Text
  • Cutting, Copying and Pasting Text
  • Adding Text in Outline View

Formatting Slides

  • Formatting Font
  • Text Alignment
  • Changing the Bullet Style
  • Using Different Bullet Level
  • Line Spacing
  • Setting Indents and Tabs from the Ruler
  • Slide Background Colour

Checking the Presentation

  • Checking the Spelling of a Presentation
  • Checking Grammar
  • Style Checker

The Slide Sorter

  • Moving and Copying Slides
  • Deleting Slides

Using SmartArt

  • Choosing from the Designs
  • Converting Text to SmartArt
  • Changing the Design
  • Altering the Colours and Textures

Charts

  • Building Chart Slides
  • Entering Data for Charts
  • Formatting Charts
  • Chart Options
  • Organisation Charts

Drawing

  • Drawing Objects, e.g. Rectangles
  • Editing Objects, e.g. Resizin
  • Inserting and Manipulating AutoShapes
  • Adding and Manipulating ClipArt

Printing

  • Printing Multiple and Single Slides
  • Printing Handouts

Slide Shows

  • Creating a Slide Show
  • Adding Transition Effects
  • Using Animation Effects
  • Saving a Slide Show
  • Running a Slide Show

Using the ‘Tell me what you want to do’ Feature

Templates

  • Applying a Template
  • Creating / Saving a Customised Templates

Course Summary and Review

  • Recap of Topics Covered
  • Question Time

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