Microsoft PowerPoint (Foundation)

Our Microsoft PowerPoint Foundation course is suitable beginners to Microsoft PowerPoint. At the end of this course, you will have a good working knowledge of PowerPoint basics.

You will feel more confident using PowerPoint and can create a presentation from scratch. You will learn how to improve the format of your text as well as geeting to grips with importing and manipulating graphics, using the PowerPoint drawing tools and the chart and table design tools to make your presentation much more visually stimulating.

You will also learn how to make modifications to your presentation before you learn how PowerPoint is used in a live presentation.

Key Content:

• Unit 1: PowerPoint Basics

  • Open a Presentation

  • Interacting with PowerPoint

  • The View Toolbar

  • Using Slides Pane

  • Using Outline View

  • Closing PowerPoint

  • Minimize Ribbon

  • Getting Help in PowerPoint

  • Using Tell Me command

• Unit 2: Building New Presentation

  • Creating New Presentation

  • Editing Slide

  • Text AutoFit

  • Clipboard

  • Cutting, Copying and Pasting Slides

  • Reusing Slides

  • Slide Outline

  • Saving a Presentation

• Unit 3: Formatting and Proffing

  • Formatting

  • Bullets and Numbering

  • Alignment

  • Changing Text Direction

  • Proofing

  • Spell Check

  • Using AutoCorrect

• Unit 4: Using Drawing Tools

  • Insert Shapes

  • Drawing Tools Ribbon

  • Format Pane

  • Customize Shapes

  • Merge Common Shapes

  • Line up and space objects equally

• Unit 5: Customizing the PowerPoint Environment

  • PowerPoint Options

  • General

  • Proofing

  • Using Quick Access toolbar

  • Default buttons

  • Adding and removing buttons

  • Customizing toolbar

  • Slide sections

  • Add and name a section

  • Rename a section

  • Move a section up or down

  • Remove a section

  • Screenshots

• Unit 6: Printing Your Presentations

  • Header and footers

  • Add header or footer

  • Print preview

  • Changing slide orientation

  • Using Page Setup Dialog

  • Types of PowerPoint Printouts