Mastering Microsoft PowerPoint

This course is designed for business people who want to create PowerPoint presentations for projection in front of a group, display on a computer monitor, or creation of printed handouts. Class discussion and exercises cover —

• The PowerPoint interface: ribbons, tools and commands, and the Normal, Outline, Slide Sorter and Slide Master views,

• How to choose the correct slide size for your presentation,

• Text entry in the Outline and Normal views, how the Outline hierarchy works, the difference between outline text and text blocks and when to use each,

• The relationship between Slide Masters and final slides,

• Using PowerPoint’s drawing tools,

• Formatting text and graphic objects,

• Building a Slide Master from scratch,

• What theme colors are and when to use them,

• How to change colors in an existing theme and create a new set of theme colors,

• Slide transitions,

• Speaker’s Notes and Handouts, and

• Creating charts in PowerPoint.