Course overview

Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)

Our PowerPoint – Professional Presentations course looks at creating professional, business focussed presentations quickly and easily. It ensures delegates are aware of the key concepts in using the tool such as slide masters and by the end of the day you will be able to create and run high quality presentations.

This course is designed for new and existing users of PowerPoint who want to get the best out of the tool.

Objectives 

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Create a new presentation
• Amend the slide master/template
• Create text slides
• Animate text on slides
• Insert pictures and objects
• Set object animation
• Insert and work with SmartArt
• Create charts
• Run a presentation

Content

Creating a new presentation

• Creating a new presentation from a template
• Using your company template
• Changing slide layouts
• Copying, deleting and inserting slides

Using the slide master

• Modifying the Slide Master
• Using Slide layouts
• Multiple Slide Masters
• Slide dates, footers and numbers

Creating text slides 

• Working with bullet points
• Setting spacing
• Changing text and bullet styles
• Using Outline view
• Text animation on a slide
• Slide titles
• Bullet points
• Applying animation to the Slide Master

Animating text

• Slide titles
• Bullet points
• Applying animation to Slide Master

Drill Down vs Drill Through

• Review of drill down
• Creating drill through pages
• Using drill through

Inserting and working with pictures

• Inserting pictures
• Inserting online pictures
• Formatting pictures

Adding Drawings

• Inserting lines and shapes
• Using Quick Styles
• Selecting and grouping objects
• Aligning and positioning objects
• Add text to a shape
• Duplicating objects

Object animation

• Simple object animations

Working with SmartArt

• Inserting SmartArt Graphics
• SmartArt formatting
• Converting text to SmartArt

Inserting charts

• Creating a slide with a graph
• Changing chart types
• Setting chart options
• Graph animations

Presenting your presentation

• Slide show settings
• Using Presenter view
• Using the PowerPoint viewer
• Slide show presentation tips

Public Training Programme

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Ideal for those valuing flexibility and affordability, our public courses are ideal where you only have small numbers requiring training and offer training from the comfort of your home or office.

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