MICROSOFT POWERPOINT
PowerPoint is used to deliver "slide show" presentations, which often accompany speeches, conferences, presentations and reports. PowerPoint has a wide variety of tools to create everything from simple, text-only presentations to those with animation and sounds that can run automatically at an information booth or kiosk.
Introduction To PowerPoint
- Full Day Class (8:15 am - 4:30 pm)
- Sample: Table Of Contents (PDF)
- Sample: Class Excerpt
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"I hadn't realized all the options available to create great presentations."
Overview
This introductory class teaches essential skills to design PowerPoint presentations, including working with text, pictures, artistic word blocks known as "WordArt" and other basic drawing objects. Helpful tools such as spell checking are covered, in addition to the different "views" used in building a presentation. Delivering the presentation on screen or on paper is covered, including a discussion of PowerPoint's various print settings and options.
Objectives
- Understand fundamental concepts: what is PowerPoint?, what are slides and objects?, insert, resize and move objects.
- Review the environment: the interface, spelling tools, working with files, getting help.
- Learn more about objects: formatting and working with text, text boxes and graphics.
- Discuss PowerPoint's views and how to use them.
- Work with the slide and presentation tools: cut/copy and paste, create headers and footers and apply slide transitions.
- Print and present: deliver your presentation on-screen and/or on paper.
Prerequisite(s)
- Introduction To Windows
Or Equivalent Experience Using Windows-Based Computers
Other Information
Intermediate PowerPoint
- Full Day Class (8:15 am - 4:30 pm)
- Sample: Table Of Contents (PDF)
- Sample: Class Excerpt
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"I thought this wouldn't give me additional insight or training, but it absolutely did."
Overview
Intermediate PowerPoint is offered as a "workshop" style class, allowing students to cover those topics that will benefit them most. The largest, and most popular, section details PowerPoint's animation features. In addition to the basic techniques, students learn to create three types of advanced effects using the basic animation options available to them. Techniques to speed up the creation of presentations are often covered in detail, and these include creating custom templates for recurrent use. Additional topics, presented at the discretion of the students or instructor, include the application of hyperlinks within a presentation, creating "unstaffed" kiosk presentations that are self-running and the creation of organizational charts, among others.
Objectives
- Review tips and techniques: change text case, create lists, add a summary slide, duplicate slides, change a slide's background, work in black and white view and insert comments.
- Discuss how to streamline your work: custom shows, the master objects, templates and using slides from other files.
- Cover advanced presentation features: hyperlinks, animation, sound effects, organization charts and graphs.
- Learn to use additional speaker's tools: rehearse timings, create kiosk presentations, including those with soundtracks, set up slide shows and use the meeting minder.
- The PowerPoint Viewer 97 and the Pack and Go Wizard.
Prerequisite(s)
Other Information
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