Overview and objectives

This course is designed to help you to obtain the skills required to create and deliver a slide show to accompany a presentation. 

Target audience

Those wanting to obtain basic skills in using presentation graphics software, such as designing slides and delivering a slide show.

Course prerequisites

You should be able to use Microsoft Windows and basic functions in Office to start an application, get help, and open, close, and save files.

Course Content 

What is PowerPoint?

• Understand the functions of a presentation graphics application
• Understand some principles of presentation design
• Recognise the different elements of the PowerPoint window
• Select different views
• Change the zoom setting

Creating a Presentation

• Create a new presentation
• Create a specific type of slide
• Enter text onto a slide
• Delete a slide

Entering and Editing Text

• Move the insertion point
• Select text
• Insert new text
• Type over existing text
• Delete text
• Use the Undo, Redo, and Repeat commands
• Insert the date and time
• Insert symbols and special characters
• Create and modify speaker notes

Working with Objects

• Select, position, and delete an object
• Resize an object
• Move or copy an object

Moving and Copying Data

• Cut, Copy, and Paste with the Windows Clipboard using the menu, toolbars, and keyboard
• Move and copy text from one presentation to another
• Use the Paste Options smart tag to change the format of pasted text
• Use drag-and-drop to move and copy text
• Use Paste Special to choose different formats for data
• Change the order of slides, Move and copy slides between files
• Delete slides

Inserting Pictures and Clip Art

• Understand Object Linking and Embedding
• Insert a Clip Art object
• Insert a picture from a file
• Insert a Print Screen graphic
• Insert an image from a scanner or digital camera, Modify a picture using the Picture toolbar
• Crop a picture

Formatting Tools

• Understand the proper use of fonts and formatting for a slide show
• Change text fonts, enhancements, and colour
• Change the text alignment
• Change paragraph and line spacing
• Add different graphical bullets
• Add AutoNumber bullets
• Use the Format Painter to copy formatting 

Background Effects

• Apply different slide background colours
• Apply texture, pattern, and picture fill backgrounds

Formatting Objects

• Format shapes and objects (line, border, shading, shadow, 3-D)

Creating a Slide Show

• Start a slide show on any slide
• Get Help during a slide show
• Use on-screen navigation tools
• Hide a slide
• Add animated transitions between slides
• Animate objects on a slide using a preset scheme

Printing Slides and Handouts

• Select an output format for a presentation
• Preview the presentation in Print Preview
• Preview a presentation in black and white and greyscale
• Print slides in a variety of formats
• Add and print speaker notes
• Print audience handouts

Editing Text in Outline View

• Enter and edit text in Outline view
• Promote and demote text
• Modify slide sequence in Outline view
• Import text from Microsoft Word

Proofing Tools

• Check spelling
• AutoCorrect typing errors
• Find and replace text

Using Templates and Masters

• Create a presentation using a content template
• Create a presentation using the AutoContent Wizard
• Create a presentation from a design template
• Apply a design template to an existing presentation or to selected slides
• Modify the Slide, Title, Notes, and Handouts Masters
• Work with multiple masters
• Insert headers and footers and slide numbering

Inserting a Chart

• Insert a new graph using Microsoft Graph
• Reposition, resize, and delete a graph object
• Modify an embedded graph object
• Change data using the datasheet
• Change the chart type

Using Tables on Slides

• Create a table in PowerPoint
• Modify a PowerPoint table
• Add a table from Word