PowerPoint - Accelerated Introduction

This course gives participants a full ability to create and enhance business presentation graphics. After This Course, participants will be able to create their own self running computer presentation, incorporating special effects and including: a cover page; title list; bulleted list; table; organisation chart; freehand drawing; bar, pie and mixed graphs.

Introduction

• Concepts of graphics and PowerPoint

• The PowerPoint screen and tools

• Using menus, help and undo

Creating Presentation

• Understanding the view options of the Slide Sorter View, Outline View, Note View and Slide View

• Working with Templates

• Applying templates to existing presentations

• Using outlines and moving slides with text

• Customising and editing defaults

Graphics

• Creating graphics to size and shape

• Choosing graphing styles, including 2d and 3d, area, bar line, column, pie, scatter, and combination charts

• How to use 3d chart rotation

• Importing graphics

• Linking text to graphics

• Using clip art

Working With Text

• Create, edit, copy, move and delete text

• Change character attributes (case, bold and underline)

• Standard and customised bullets

• Proofing text

• Tabs and Indents

• Creating Speaker notes and Handouts

Drawing Objects

• Creating diagrams

• Object properties, line, fill, text and shadow

• Freeform tool to draw polygons, open and freehand figures

• Using PowerPoint shapes to draw and modify within diagrams

• Using symbols for diagrams

Filing And Printing

• Setting up to print

• Scaling slides to fit the printer

• Understanding the printer environments

• Changing Titles, or Body text in Slide view

• Save and open presentations

• Using file management

Screen Show

• Using Slide Build, Slide sorter and Slide show

• Recording times and running a presentation