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PowerPoint Introduction

Duration: 1 day | Book this course
Cost: $325.00 + GST

Course Description

Participants in this one-day introductory class will learn all the fundamental aspects of creating and running PowerPoint presentations. Participants will learn how to insert slides, modify and apply themes to slides, add placeholders, text, graphics and shapes.  Finally the course covers how to seamlessly run a slide show.

Prerequisites

 

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the Windows operating system is essential.

Who Should Take This Course
New users of PowerPoint who would like to create a basic corporate presentation.  If you are unsure, please complete a Training Needs Assessment form by clicking here or phone our Bookings Administrator on (07) 857 0776.

Course Objectives

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:

  1. Open and run a presentation
  2. Create a blank presentation and insert slides.
  3. Add and format text
  4. Insert and edit illustrations and images
  5. View and manage slides.
  6. Present a slide show.

Course Outline

 

Course Outline

Introducing PowerPoint

  • The PowerPoint screen (The File menu, Quick Access Toolbar, Views, Zoom)
  • Understanding File Types
  • Getting Help
  • Using undo and redo
  • Opening, closing and saving a presentation
  • Navigating between slides
  • Switching between multiple presentations 

Creating a Presentation

  • Creating a new blank Presentation
  • Creating a Presentation from a Template
  • Inserting new slides
  • Saving the new Presentation

 Manipulating Slides

  • Changing the Slide Layout
  • Changing the background of a slide
  • Applying a theme to a presentation

Using Master Pages

  • Working with Slide masters
  • Working with Handout masters
  • Working with Notes masters

 Working with Text

  • Inserging text boxes
  • Moving, copying and deleting text
  • Finding and Replacing Text

Font and Paragraph formatting

  • Changing font, font size and adding font effects
  • Aligning text and changing text dirction
  • Creating columns
  • Adding bullets and numbering
  • Using Format Painter

Working with Illustration

  • Inserting illustrations including shapes and SmartArt
  • Manipulating illustrations (incl. copying, deleting and resizing)
  • Grouping and ungrouping objects
  • Rotating, laying and aligning objects

Managing Slides

  • Moving between slides
  • Copying and deleting slides

Presenting the Slide Shows

  • Spell checking the presentation
  • Adding transition effects to the slides
  • Adding animation effects to text and illustrations
  • Running the slide show (including pointer options and accessing screen options)
  • Using Presenter view

Printing and Proofing

  • Using portrait or landscape orientation
  • Switching between standard and widescreen formats
  • Seleting your output format
  • Printing a presentation