PowerPoint Basic Course

 

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Duration

One day

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​Course Description

This course is for students who are interested in learning the principles required to produce and alter simple PowerPoint presentations.  Exploring the PowerPoint environment as the students create a presentation. Students will work with text on slides, enhancing it as well as add and change graphical elements to a presentation.

 

Course pre-requisites

Be familiar with Windows and using the mouse.

 

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Course Content

Getting Started with PowerPoint

• The PowerPoint environment

• Working with the ribbons

• Creating a blank presentation

• Use different views

 

Building a Presentation

• Creating a new presentation

• Entering text into a presentation

• Save, close and open a presentation

• Closing a presentation

• Inserting new slides

• Creating different slide layouts

• Format text using the font options

• Change paragraph formatting

• Create bulleted lists

 

Pictures, Shapes and Text Boxes

• Insert pictures

• Change the picture style

• Enhance the picture

• Use picture effects

• Rotate

• Crop pictures

• Insert shapes

• Insert text into a shape

• Format shapes

• Align shapes

• Layer shapes

• Group shapes

• Create text boxes

• Enhance the text box

 

WordArt

• Insert different wordart styles

• Change the font colour

• Change the text outline colour

• Use text effects

 

Animation

• Use slide transition effects

• Apply animation to different slide object

• Customise the animation effects

 

Slide Show

• Run the slide show

• Use slide show options

 

Enhancing the Presentation

• Use different thymes

• Change the slide background

 

Prepare to Print

• Page Setup Options

• Printing Slides

• Printing Outlines, Speaker Notes & Handouts

• Send Presentations via E-mail

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