MS PowerPoint Basic to Advanced

2012 Dates: 5 June - 6 June, 3 September - 4 September
Venue: IIR Training House, Rosebank, Johannesburg
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PowerPoint is a versatile program that allows you to create electronic presentations with relative ease. It offers powerful features for viewing, editing and manipulating data; supports many media types; is designed for non-designers; and integrates with other programs such as Word and Excel.

Target Audience
This course is suitable for all staff who would like to know more about Microsoft PowerPoint.
 
Prerequisite and Co-requisite Courses
This course assumes that you are able to use a PC running Windows 95 or above and have used a Microsoft Office product such as Word or Excel. No previous experience with PowerPoint is assumed.
 
Course Outline

Day 1
 Unit 1: Getting started
 Topic A: The PowerPoint window
 Topic B: Getting help

 Unit 2: New presentations
 Topic A: Creating new presentations
 Topic B: Saving presentations
 Topic C: Rearranging and deleting slides
 Topic D: Using slides from other presentations

 Unit 3: Formatting slides
 Topic A: Text formatting
 Topic B: Modifying text
 Topic C: Paragraph formatting

 Unit 4: Drawing objects
 Topic A: Shapes
 Topic B: Modifying objects
 Topic C: Text in objects

 Unit 5: Graphics
 Topic A: WordArt
 Topic B: Pictures
 Topic C: Clip art

 Unit 6: Tables and charts
 Topic A: Tables
 Topic B: Charts
 Topic C: Diagrams

 Unit 7: Modifying presentations
 Topic A: Templates and themes
 Topic B: Slide masters
 Topic C: Transitions and timings
 Topic D: Speaker notes
 Topic E: Setting up slide shows

 Unit 8: Proofing and delivering presentations
 Topic A: Proofing presentations
 Topic B: Running presentations
 Topic C: Printing presentations

Day 2

 Unit 1: Custom presentation options
 Topic A: Application settings
 Topic B: Custom themes
 Topic C: Custom templates
 Topic D: Advanced slide master techniques

 Unit 2: Graphic and multimedia content
 Topic A: Modifying clip art
 Topic B: Media clips
 Topic C: Animations
 Topic D: Photo albums

 Unit 3: Customising SmartArt graphics and tables
 Topic A: Customising SmartArt graphics
 Topic B: Customising tables

 Unit 4: Action buttons and custom slide shows
 Topic A: Interactive elements
 Topic B: Custom slide shows

 Unit 5: Distributing a presentation
 Topic A: Comments
 Topic B: Finishing a presentation
 Topic C: Distributing a presentation
 Topic D: Publish as a Web page

 Unit 6: Integrating Microsoft Office files
 Topic A: Build slides from a Word outline
 Topic B: Embed and link content
 Topic C: Documents linked with hyperlinks