MS Powerpoint Intermediate to Advanced Level.

Course Brief

Entirely hands-on, this course will provide those attending with a good basic understanding of how to create and manipulate charts, graphic images, organisation charts and how to create a rolling presentation on screen using Microsoft PowerPoint. The course will then provide participants with an insight into the advanced elements of Powerpoint. 

Course Content

Getting Started

  • Overview of New Features
  • Introduction to PowerPoint
  • PowerPoint Screen

Creating & Editing a Presentation

  • Creating a Presentation
  • Open / Close / Save Presentation
  • Using Slide Layouts
  • Creating a Title Slide
  • Selecting Text
  • Formatting Text
  • Alignment
  • Line spacing
  • Creating a Bulleted List
  • Changing the appearance of Bullets
  • Using Different Views

Inserting Art & Objects

  • Working with Graphic Objects
  • Inserting Clipart
  • Tabs
  • Using Outline View
  • Changing Colour Schemes
  • Using Templates
  • Creating a Slide Show
  • Creating Graphs
  • Creating Organisational Charts
  • Inserting WordArt

Managing the Slide Deck

  • Customising Toolbars
  • Using Slide Master

Advanced Animation Techniques

  • Adding entrance and exit animations
  • Setting effect options and controlling timings
  • Controlling animation for Charts
  • Using the animation pane
  • Adding multiple animations
  • Customised motion paths

Controlling Audio and Video Content

  • Inserting Audio and Video clips
  • Cropping a Video or audio clip
  • Controlling playback
  • Controlling interaction with other content
  • Screen recording tool

 

Target Trainee Profile

New, recent or intended users of PowerPoint.  Anyone who needs to produce high quality slides, overheads and other presentation materials.  This outline is based on the 2016 version of Powerpoint.

 

 

 

 

Who is this content for?

This outline is based on the 2003 version of Powerpoint.

  • Customising PowerPoint
  • Customising the toolbars
  • Setting Options and Defaults
  • Working with Tables and Organisation Charts
  • Creating a table chart
  • Changing table chart attributes
  • Creating an organisation chart
  • Changing organisation chart attributes
  • Working with PowerPoint Graph
  • Changing Chart Attributes
  • Adding Visual Elements to a graph setting graph defaults

  • Working with the Drawing tools
  • Changing object properties
  • Flipping and rotating objects
  • Adding graphic text
  • Drawing More Effectively
  • Clip Art
  • Working with Different Views
  • Slide View
  • Slide Sorter View
  • Outline View
  • Notes Page View
  • Controlling the Overall Look
  • Templates
  • Customising a Template
  • Modifying the Notes Master and the Handout page
  • Saving a Template
  • Slide Show View
  • Creating a Slide Show
  • Annotating Slides During a Slide Show
  • Animation Effects
  • Transition Effects
  • Rehearsing a Presentation
  • Using the Pack and Go Wizard
  • Using Multimedia
  • Options for Movie and Sound Clips
  • Using PowerPoint with other Programs
  • Object Linking and Embedding
  • Editing Linked and Embedded objects
  • Creating a PowerPoint Presentation from a Word Outline