PowerPoint Foundation
This session is aimed at those with limited experience of PowerPoint, but with general experience of MS Office.
- Exploring the PowerPoint ribbon menus
- Working with PowerPoint views: normal, outline, slide sorter, reading view
- Understanding slide content types and their uses
- Title slides
- Content slides
- Creating a simple text slide
- Formatting slides
- Formatting text size, colour & styles
- Formatting slide backgrounds
- Deleting and reordering slides
- Creating slide notes
- Adding headers & footers
PowerPoint Intermediate
This session is aimed at those already using PowerPoint and can create basic slide presentations.
- Working with the PowerPoint Slide Master
- Understanding slide masters
- Creating custom slide masters
- Styling presentations using the slide master
- Inserting images
- Adding photos & resizing
- Adding graphic artwork, logos etc.
- Adding slide transitions
- Understanding transition types & their application
- Changing animation effects
- Creating bullet point animations
- Animation uses and application
- Adding animations to text / bullet points
- Changing animation effects
PowerPoint Advanced
This session is aimed at those with good experience of PowerPoint and wish to utilise the more advanced features of the application.
- Adding multimedia
- Inserting videos from files
- Linking to online content
- Adding sound files
- Displaying information with SmartArt
- Exploring SmartArt types
- Applying and editing SmartArt
- Linking Excel spreadsheet data
- Embedding spreadsheets
- Updating data dynamically
- Working with graphs & charts
- Creating charts in PowerPoint
- Embedding linked charts from Excel spreadsheets