Microsoft PowerPoint 2010: Power User

Course Overview

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Audience

Delegates should:

Be familiar with using a mouse and working within the Windows environment. The delegate should also be familiar with the core functionality of PowerPoint, namely be able to create and modify presentations and perform basic formatting tasks

Skills Gained

Modify existing PowerPoint presentations. Create and format an effective PowerPoint presentation. Incorporate drawing objects, pictures, charts, graphs and diagrams into a presentation. Incorporate animations and other visual effects into a presentation. Create notes and handouts for a presentation. Run a slideshow using effective animation and transitions. Incorporate and link information between other applications, including Word and Excel. Enhance presentations using sounds and media clips. Create events using action buttons and hyperlinks. Prepare and package presentations for distribution to others. Create self running slide shows

Course Outline

Designing and Planning a Presentation

Style guidelines
Avoiding common pitfalls and errors
Design fundamentals

Working with Slides

Adding notes to a slide
Adding slides from other presentations
Using Slide Masters
Using multiple Slide Masters
Resetting Slide Masters
Using headers and footers
Changing the slide design using templates or themes (2007 Only)
Changing colour schemes
Customizing backgrounds

Adding Content to Slides

Creating charts and graphs
Changing chart types
Modifying charts and graphs
Linking Excel data to a PowerPoint presentation
Creating diagrams
Formatting diagrams
Creating organisation charts
Modifying organisation charts
Using Word Art.
Importing outlines from Word (2003 Onwards)
Linking to Word documents
Using Paste Special

Using Drawing Tools

Creating, resizing, moving, copying and formatting drawing objects.
Applying shadows and other effects to drawing objects
Using the Arrange tools to layer objects.
Using the Grouping tools to control multiple objects
Using guidelines to effectively position objects
Modifying the drawing grid

Working With Images and Pictures

Inserting, resizing, moving, copying and formatting ClipArt pictures
Inserting, resizing, moving, copying and formatting other graphical images
Re-colouring images
Obtaining Clip Art and other images from the internet. Compressing images

Automating Slideshows

Inserting hyperlinks to other documents, presentations and web pages
Creating hyperlinks from drawing objects and images. Adding action buttons
Creating actions from drawing objects and images Inserting sound and movie clips into a presentation

Running a Slideshow

Running a simple slideshow
Using Slide Transitions
Animating slides
Using custom animations
Modifying custom animation timings and other effects Animating charts and diagrams
Creating a custom slide show
Running a custom slide show
Setting up a self running presentation
Using timings