PowerPoint with Impact

Course Aims: This PowerPoint course is aimed at candidates who want to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create slides to run effective and interesting presentations and to include special slide show effects, Graphs, Pictures, Shapes and SmartArt diagrams.  

Course Pre-requisites: No previous knowledge of PowerPoint is required. Candidates must have experience, however, of using the Windows environment to launch programs and access files. 

Duration: 1 Day

Learning Method: Online class with dedicated tutor

Course Objectives: 

On completion of this course candidates will be able to:

• Develop a PowerPoint presentation
• Insert pictures in a PowerPoint presentation
• Insert and format shapes
• Work with tables
• Insert and customise charts and SmartArt graphics
• Import data from Excel
• Print presentation slides
• Create a slide master and apply colour schemes
• Add transition and custom animation

Course Content:

Introduction and Objectives:

Working with Presentations

• Displaying the Ruler, Grid and Guides
• Viewing and Navigating Slides
• Selecting Text
• Formatting Text
• Using the Format Painter
• Changing the Text Alignment
• Formatting Bullets and Numbers
• Adding & Removing Bullets & Numbers
• Adjusting Levels in a Bulleted List

Inserting Images

• Inserting Pictures
• Cropping a Picture
• Moving and Resizing a Picture
• Formatting a Picture

Working with Drawing Objects

• Drawing Shapes
• Selecting multiple shapes
• Aligning and formatting shapes
• Adding Text to Shapes

Working with the Slide Master

• Create, edit, and format a slide master.
• Saving the slide master

Printing

• Printing Presentations
• Printing Slides, Outlines, Speaker Notes and Handouts

Using Tables

• Creating a PowerPoint Table
• Inserting and Editing a Table

Creating, Editing, and importing Charts

• Working with Simple Charts
• Editing Chart Data
• Formatting a Chart
• Editing Chart Elements
• Importing an Excel Chart

Working with SmartArt Diagrams

• Inserting a SmartArt diagram (e.g., Organisation chart)
• Editing and formatting a diagram
• Converting a bulleted slide into a SmartArt diagram

Inserting a Video and sound

• Embed a Video and sound

Adding Transition and Animation

• Animating Text & Objects
• Animating a Chart and SmartArt

Action Planning

Review of Programme