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Microsoft PowerPoint Introductory Outline

Aims of the One-Day Course

This course has been designed to give first time users the skills needed to create and run a basic presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint. This course is 100% hands-on, with practical exercises to practice the new skills as you learn them.

Course Content

Creating a slide presentation
- Creating Text Slides, Organisation
- Charts, and Graph Slides
- Editing and Deleting Slides
- Inserting, Moving, Copying, Re-sizing & Deleting ClipArt
Editing Master slides
- Page numbers
- Objects & Text to appear on every Slide
PowerPoint views
- Slide, outline, slide sorter, notes, slide show view
Applying special effects to text
Applying special effects to slides

Using the presentation templates available in PowerPoint
Creating and printing speaker notes and audience handouts
Producing a slide show
Printing slides
Creating a Custom Show
- Select the slides appropriate to the audience from a large presentation
Rehearsing slide timings
Running a PowerPoint show
- Moving between slides (going to a specific slide, restarting the show)
- Using the pen

Prerequisites

No previous experience of using PowerPoint is necessary, although keyboard and mouse experience is assumed. Familiarity with the use of Windows software is essential.

Course Duration

Six hours (9.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.30pm).

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