Course Information

Duration: Two-Day Course
Platform: Windows only
Fee: $595 CDN (+GST)

This class is limited to eight people.

Course Overview

In this course you will learn to customize PowerPoint and use the many advanced features to quickly create a well designed and coordinated presentation. The course will begin with a brief review of some of PowerPoint’s basic features and concepts.

Course Content

Creating & Editing a Presentation

• Identifying and naming the different parts of the PowerPoint screen and customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
• Using advanced editing techniques to create and edit a presentation using the normal, slide, outline and sorter views
• Generating and formatting extensive Notes Pages to remind yourself of what you would like to say during your presentation
• Using the Replace Fonts command to quickly ensure that the fonts are consistent throughout a presentation
• Using the AutoCorrect command to reduce typing of common words
• Enhancing the appearance of your text using the many advanced formatting commands

Creating & Saving a PowerPoint Template

• Applying and customizing themes, color schemes, font sets and backgrounds to your presentation
• Creating professional-looking slides, titles, handouts, notes and outline masters to ensure a consistent look in your presentation
• Creating and saving your own custom slide layouts
• Saving a custom template based on a presentation you have designed

Creating Objects

• Create attention-grabbing slides by downloading clip art from the Internet and inserting pictures onto your slides and learning to modify the pictures
• Constructing interesting drawings using the predefined AutoShapes and learning to connect shapes
• Using the advanced formatting techniques to insert a table onto a slide to display information in a column and row format
• Creating bar or pie charts to display data more effectively and take advantage of the color scheme in your presentation
• Producing an organizational chart or pyramid diagram using PowerPoint’s SmartArt graphics
• Converting an existing bullet point slide to a diagram

Animating a Presentation

• Add excitement to your presentation by including special slide transitional effects and animation to text, objects and charts
• Creating a custom show that includes a selfrunning PowerPoint presentation
• Incorporating multimedia, including: music, sounds and videos to your presentation
• Adding hyperlinks to your presentation and then clicking on the hyperlink to quickly proceed to a specific slide, a different presentation, a Word document, an Excel worksheet or an Internet address

Packaging & Printing a Presentation

• Saving the presentation as a package to ensure all the graphics, movies and files are available for presenting
• Printing the four components of your presentation