Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® Introduction

Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® Introduction course is offered by UKZN Extended Learning. UKZN Extended Learning is committed to enrichment through lifelong learning, by providing high quality credit and non-credit bearing short courses and academic programmes.

Key Focus Areas:

Getting started with PowerPoint
• Understand the ribbon, the Quick Access Toolbar and Backstage view

Understanding OneDrive
• Learn how to use your Microsoft Account and OneDrive

Creating and Opening Presentations
• Learn how to open existing presentations
• Create new ones using Microsoft Templates

Saving and Sharing Documents
• Understand how to save your documents and share them with other people

Slide Basics
• Learn the basics of working with slides

Text basics
• Learn how to cut, copy, paste and format text

Using a theme
• Learn how to apply a theme to your presentation

Managing views
• Learn how to change views to manage your slide order

Inserting a picture
• Insert a picture and modify using the Picture Tool Tab

Bullets, Lists and numbering
• Understand how to add, modify and utilise the bullets, lists and numbering system in your presentation

Charts
• Learn how to create, modify and work with charts
• Work with charts as objects in Word and Excel

Tables
• Work and edit tables
• Learn how to work with tables as objects in other Microsoft Programs

Spell check
• Learn how to use the spell check feature

Printing your presentation
• Learn the various ways in which the presentation can be printed

Presenting your slide show
• Understand how transitions work
• Learn how to present the show to an audience

Printing
• Understand how to set up margins, change orientation and manage page breaks
• Learn how to set up your document for printing using the Print function