PowerPoint

Introductory Level - One Day Course Code: PP01

Course Objectives:
This course will enable trainees to:
Create slides; presentation material and on-screen shows based on templates; Customise presentations and utilise special effects; Adopt good design principles for different types of presentation media

Course Details
Start and exit the software; the environment; Creating slides from templates, editing presentations
Arranging slides into order; delete slides; hide slides
Produce, edit and format bulleted slides; change font, font size,colour; Use the Spell checker; Find and replace text
Add, edit and format WordArt and ClipArt; scanned images; sound and movie clips
Use the AutoShape feature; changing AutoShapes re-shaping, using the vortex point, text wrap, duplication, alignment, rotation; callouts, freehand drawing, connectors
Create and edit bar graphs, line graphs and pie charts from entered data
Create and edit tables; changing borders; coloumn widths
Create and edit Organisation Charts
Produce printed output: slides, notes, handouts
Creating a custom background; customise a colour scheme; changing the title slide and slide masters; apply a template from another presentation
Basic computer-based slide shows: running a manual show

Advanced Level/Existing Users - One Day Course Code: PP02

Course Objectives
The course objectives can be tightened up once we have established delegates' abilities but we would suggest the following:
Revising any topics from the Introductory level that delegates may not know, use advanced features for text and graphic display; Utilise special effects for on-screen shows; Import/Export between relevant applications

Course Details
There will be an opportunity for anyone who is self-taught, to re-cap on items from the previous level.
Headers, Footers; Page Numbers
Inserting slides from other presentations
Changing Masters: Slides; Title Masters; Speakers Notes and Handouts
Creating Design and Content Masters
Customising graphs - editing features e.g. scaling, number formats, colour schemes, data labels, data tables, rotation, trouble shooting imported data
Screen Show features: Meeting Minder, Recording Speaker Notes, Summary Slide, End with a Black Slide option, Recording Narration
Adding action buttons, hyperlinks, video, media and sound clips, adding a track from a CD
Working with other Applications - Paste and Paste Linking, Word Outlines, sending a Presentation to Word, adding Comments, interfacing with Outlook, sending to a Mail Recipient
Presentation Conferences (if the facility is available) - viewing a slide show on more than one PC
Creating Custom Shows
User Preferences and Customising Toolbars