POWERPOINT ADVANCED COURSE

Overview

This course will enable participants to move from the basics of PowerPoint and build full presentations with interactive media elements. The course will focus on using advanced features of PowerPoint to enable the student to create professional presentations.

Prior Knowledge Requirements

All attendees to an Advances PowerPoint course must be proficient with the elements covered in the PowerPoint Introduction course.

The course covers the following areas:

Revision of Basics

• Creating presentations
• Formatting text and presentations
• Running Slide Shows
• Transitions and Animation
• Slide Show preparation

Slide Masters and Templates

• Viewing the Slide Master
• Adding Logos to every slide
• Formatting the Background
• Colour Schemes
• Setting Watermarks
• Format Title Area & Object Area
• Adding Headers and Footers
• Inserting a second Slide Master
• Preserving a Slide Master
• Viewing the Title Master
• Editing the Title Master
• Viewing the Notes Master
• Headers & Footers for Notes Master
• Applying Design Templates
• Slide Design Task Pane
• Creating your own Design Template
• Apply your own Design Template
• Change settings of the Default Design

Slide Show Advanced Options

• Adding Hyperlinks to a Presentation
• Creating Action Buttons
• Viewing Speaker Notes
• Creating a Custom Show
• Options for Custom Shows

Multi-media

• Inserting Movie File
• Inserting sounds and music
• Adding CD Tracks

Working with other Applications

• Linking Data from Word and Excel
• Embedding Data from external source
• Sending Slides to Word to create handouts

Presenting with PowerPoint

• Using Pack and Go option
• PowerPoint Viewer
• Setting the Meeting Minder
• Publishing to the Web

Creating Drawings

• Drawing basic shapes freehand
• Creating regular shapes
• Formatting shapes
• Creating Auto Shapes
• Moving and copying shapes
• Working with Guide and Visible Grid
• Aligning and Distributing Objects
• Flipping and Rotating Objects
• Ordering and Grouping Objects
• Inserting and formatting text within a shape
• Inserting WordArt

Graphics and Clip Art

• Insering Clip Art
• Moving and Resizing
• Re-colouring Clip Art
• Grouping and Ungrouping Clip Art
• Text Flow around Graphics
• Adding Text Boxes