MS PowerPoint - Introduction
Introduction
This one-day instructor led course is designed to give a thorough introduction to the basic skills needed to use Microsoft PowerPoint effectively through a combination of group discussion and hands-on practice. Each section of the course will provide an opportunity to explore the new subject area, followed by an exercise to reinforce learning.
Course Objectives
- Navigate around the PowerPoint screen
- Build basic Presentations
- Insert ClipArt, WordArt, Charts and Tables
- Run Presentations using Animation and Transition
Pre-requisites
We recommend that all those who attend are able to:
- Use the mouse to select and open menus and icons
- Identify and use the Shift, Ctrl, TAB and Home keys on the keyboard
Course Content
- The PowerPoint workspace
- Creating and saving a new presentation
- Opening, closing and switching between multiple presentations
- Applying slide auto layouts; adding, deleting and moving a slide
- Inserting and deleting text into frames: enhancing with formats and effects; changing case
- Moving and aligning the frames
- Creating and formatting bulleted lists: changing bullets, indents and linespacing
- Using the drawing toolbar, creating objects with different fills, line colours and styles
- Creating AutoShapes and using tools to rotate, flip and duplicate them
- Inserting text as WordArt
- Selecting and grouping multiple objects
- Inserting Clipart and other images: using the Picture toolbar to modify
- Creating tables to line up text in columns
- Creating and editing charts to give visual impact to data tables
- Creating and editing organisation charts
- Applying design templates and backgrounds to a presentation
- Applying animation to a presentation: building text and objects; using slide transitions
- Running and navigating through a slide-show effectively
- Printing slides and presentation handouts