Introduction to PowerPoint

• Starting PowerPoint and opening a presentation
• Creating a blank presentation
• The PowerPoint window & menu commands
• Toolbars – displaying & hiding, moving & re
• sizing, changing the toolbar options

Using Basic Presentation Skills

• Creating a new Presentation
• Opening an existing & adding new slides
• Selecting design and content templates
• Using the AutoContent Wizard
• Looking at the different PowerPoint views
• Navigating between slides & zoom control
• Entering text directly on to a slide

Enhancing Presentation Text

• Changing the font, style & effect (bold, italic, underline etc)
• Changing the text alignment (centre, left etc)
• Adding, removing & modifying bullets
• Creating a numbered list
• Modifying line and paragraph spacing

Formatting & Editing Text

• Formatting bullets & numbers
• Using the Format Painter (copying formatting)
• Adding Tab Stops
• Moving & copying text between slides
• Pasting items from the Clipboard Toolbar
• Importing text from Word
• Using the Undo and Redo buttons

Using the Outline Pane

• Collapsing and expanding slides
• Demoting and promoting text lines
• Moving text lines and re-arranging slides
• Adding & deleting slides in Outline Pane
• Creating a Summary Slide

Slide and Title Masters

• Using the Slide & Title Masters
• Understanding the importance of the Masters
• Formatting the Slide & Title Masters
• Identifying the Master components – changing elements (bullet, fonts, adding a logo etc)
• Adding placeholder info (date, title, page number)

Editing Multiple Presentations

• Copying text between presentations
• Copying & moving slides between presentations

Working with Drawing Objects

• Drawing an enclosed object & changing the fill
• Drawing & formatting lines & AutoShapes
• Creating a text box
• Grouping & ungrouping objects
• Rotating a graphic

Creating Basic Charts

• Using charts in presentations
• Creating a chart
• Adding/deleting data in the datasheet
• Changing the chart type (pie, line, bar, 3D etc)

Using Slide Show View

• Running a slide show
• Navigating a slide show

• Setting slide transitions

• Animating text and objects

• Adding notes to a slides

• Using the pen to annotate

• Adding action items to a slide show

• Printing slides, slide outlines, speaker notes, delegates handouts

• Sending a presentation via Email

• Publishing a presentation to the Web

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