PowerPoint Introduction

Duration:

One Day

Aims:

Microsoft PowerPoint is a business graphics program running in the Windows environment. This one day course guides participants through PowerPoint, and shows how to create text slides, use the drawing tools, add and manipulate Clip Art images, create and edit graphs and create rolling presentations. The course involves hands-on exercises with a series of specially prepared examples to help the delegates be more confident working with PowerPoint.

Prerequisites:

Basic familiarity with PCs, a mouse and Windows is required, gained by previous user experience or by attendance on an Apt Training PCs & Windows course.

Introduction
  • Starting & exiting PowerPoint
  • The PowerPoint screen
  • Toolbars
  • Task Panes
  • Accessing Help
Creating a Presentation
  • Design Templates
  • Slide layouts
  • Entering data
  • Selecting data
  • Editing data
  • Deleting data & undo
  • Adding slides
  • Deleting slides
  • Saving presentations
  • Opening presentations
Viewing a Presentation
  • Normal view
  • Outline
  • Slides
  • Notes
  • Slide sorter view
  • Slide show view
Slide Master
  • Using the slide master
Working with Text
  • Title slides
  • Bullet slides
  • Using the text box tool
  • Editing text
  • Text formatting
  • Format painter
  • Spell checker
Working with Objects
  • The Drawing toolbar
  • AutoShapes
  • Adding objects
  • Formatting objects
  • Positioning objects
  • Duplicating objects
  • Deleting objects
  • Ordering objects
  • Aligning objects
  • Rotating objects
  • Changing object shapes
  • Grouping objects
Tables
  • Inserting a table
  • Editing a table
  • Using spreadsheet data
  • Linking to a spreadsheet
Charts
  • Creating a chart
  • Chart types
  • Formatting charts
  • Using spreadsheet data
  • Linking to a spreadsheet
Organisation Charts
  • Diagram gallery
  • Creating organisation charts
Clip Art, Photographs, Movies & Sounds
  • The Clip art task pane
  • Adding clip art
  • Adding photographs
  • Adding movies
  • Adding sounds
Printing
  • Headers and Footers
  • Printing the Presentation
  • Printing Notes & Handout Pages
Running a Slide Show
  • Organising slides
  • Applying transitions
  • Applying animations