Course Overview

This course will enable you to learn the stages of how to put together a series of slides that can enhance presentations at meetings, seminars and conferences. Presenting to an audience can be very daunting at the best of times. PowerPoint is a tool that can really help you get your point across and contribute to making your presentation a success.

 

Who should attend?

Anyone who needs to gain an introduction to creating presentation slides. The course is suitable both for those who deliver presentations and those who prepare presentations for others to deliver.

 

Performance Focus

PowerPoint is one of the most popular packages on the market, helping you to deliver an effective and professional presentation. This course is designed to take you through the tools of the package. At the end of this course you will have a good working knowledge of PowerPoint basics. You will feel more confident using PowerPoint and be able to create a presentation from scratch. You will learn how to improve the format of your text as well as getting 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.

 

What You Will Learn

• Introduction
• Building New Presentations
• Formatting and Proofing
• Using the spelling checker
• Using Tables and Charts
• Enhancing Presentations
• Delivering Presentations
• Building Custom Presentations
• Using Multimedia in Presentations
• Using Organization Charts and Tables
• Advanced Presentation Delivery Options
• Customizing the Environment
• Microsoft Office Integration

 

Training Content and Basic Outline of the course

Getting Started	Delivering Presentations
Exploring the PowerPoint environment Help options Closing presentations and closing PowerPoint	Running presentations Printing presentations Exporting to other formats Saving presentations for web delivery
Building New Presentations	Building Custom Presentations
Creating new presentations Saving presentations Working in the outline tab Rearranging and deleting slides Using slides from other presentations	Modifying templates Building custom templates Building custom slide masters Advanced slide master techniques
Formatting and Proofing	Using Multimedia in Presentations
Exploring text formatting Moving and copying text Setting tabs and alignment	Advanced clip art and drawing techniques Adding movies and sound Using animations Using scanned images
Using the spelling checker	Using Organization Charts and Tables
Examining AutoCorrect and the style checker Using Drawing Tools Drawing objects Using AutoShapes Working with text in objects Enhancing objects Working with WordArt and Clip Art Working with WordArt Adding clip art	Advanced organization chart options Formatting and modifying tables Advanced Presentation Techniques Adding special effects Working with slide show options Setting up review cycles
Using Tables and Charts	Advanced Presentation Delivery Options
Working with tables Creating and enhancing charts Creating organization charts	Working with shared workspaces Working with the package for CD feature Advanced delivery techniques
Enhancing Presentations	Customizing the Environment
Using templates Working with the slide master Working with multiple slide masters Adding transitions and timings Adding speaker notes and footers	Customizing and creating toolbars Automating your work
Microsoft Office Integration
Working with Excel Working with Word
Recap & Closing