Our Microsoft PowerPoint training comprises two courses lasting approximately one day each:

• the introductory course, for first-time users of PowerPoint, covers all the skills required to create presentations using existing templates and including imported images and spreadsheets;
• the advanced course covers issues such as customisation, graphs & charts and using PowerPoint on the internet.

All delegates must be confident in using a keyboard, Windows and a mouse.

Click here for a printable version of PowerPoint Introduction Course Outlines

Click here for a printable version of PowerPoint Advanced Course Outlines

PowerPoint introductory course contents are as follows.

Introduction to PowerPoint

• The Main Screen & Toolbars

Creating, Opening and Saving a Presentation

• Entering Summary Information
• Adding, Deleting & Changing the Layout & order of Slides

Working with Templates and Masters

• Templates
• Editing, Detaching & Reapplying Masters
• Removing Background Items from Slides

Using the Drawing Toolbar

• Selecting Objects
• Using the Drawing Tools
• Resizing, Copying, Moving, Aligning
• Rotating, Scaling, Duplicating Rotating & Flipping, Grouping Objects

Changing the Appearance of Lines/Objects

• Adding Arrows
• Changing the Colour of a Line/Object
• Adding Borders, Fills & Shading Patterns
• Adding a Shadow and/or Offsets

Working with Clipart

• Adding, Ungrouping, Recolouring Clipart
• Cropping
• Auto Clip Art

Adding Text to Slides

• Using, Adding & Deleting Titles
• Adding Text Using the Text Tool
• Text in Shapes
• Formatting Text
• Line/Paragraph Spacing, Alignment, Tabs, Indents

Working with Bullets

• Adding & Deleting Bullets
• Changing the Bullet Style

Using the Outline Facility

Creating Handout and Notes Pages

Working with Meeting Minder and Slide Navigator

Working with Objects

• Tables & Organisational Chart Facility
• WordArt, Charts & Worksheets

Working with Colour Schemes

• Choosing & Changing Schemes
• Adding a Shaded Background to Slides
• Picking up & applying a colour scheme from one slide to another
• Reapplying the Slide Master colour scheme to a slide

Printing

• Setting up the Slide
• Printing Outlines, Handouts & Notes

Presentational Conferencing, Control Tools, Screen Show

• Adding Transitions, Timings, Sounds (optional)
• Creating Builds, Running a Slide Show
• Pack up & go Wizard

Using PowerPoint with Other Applications

PowerPoint advanced course contents are as follows.

Customising Presentation Slides

• Tab Setting
• Creating Custom Backgrounds
• Customising the Slide Colour Scheme

Working with Templates

• Working with the Slide Master
• Working with the Title Master
• Masters and Design Templates
• Modifying Slides Based on the
• Slide Master
• Creating your Own Templates

Working with Tables and Organisation Charts

• Creating a Table in PowerPoint
• Changing Table Attributes
• Creating an Organisation Chart
• Changing Organisation Chart
• Attributes

Using PowerPoint with other Programs

• Object Linking and Embedding
• Editing Linked and Embedded Objects
• Transferring Text into PowerPoint from Word
• Transferring PowerPoint Data to a Word Document
• Embedding an Excel Worksheet in a Slide
• Inserting Slides from Other Presentations

Creating Graphs

• Starting MS Graph
• The Datasheet Window
• Entering and Editing Data in the
• Datasheet Window
• The Graph Toolbar
• Choosing a Chart Type
• Adding Chart Elements
• Editing a Chart
• Inserting a Chart into a Presentation
• Inserting a Chart from Excel
• Setting chart Defaults

Delivering On-Screen Presentations

• What is a slide Show?
• Hiding Slides
• Working with Transition Effects
• Rehearsing a Presentation
• Interactive Slide Shows
• Creating Summary Slides

PowerPoint and the Internet

• Web Publishing
• What you need to publish a Presentation
• What to expect with a Web Presentation
• Publishing a Presentation
• Saving a Presentation as a Web Page
• Saving HTML files to a Specific
• Target Browser
• Using Web Folders