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Training Course Summary:

People who are required to make on-screen presentations or OHP slides with graphics and special effects should attend this 1 day course where delegates will extend their knowledge of PowerPoint to gain a finer appreciation of its functionality.

Pre-Requisites:

Self taught users and those who have a good understanding of Excel Charts and Word Tables techniques. Alternatively those who have attended the PowerPoint Basics course.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Review of Basic Principles:
Slide Design – backgrounds, font type, bullets, colour schemes and transitions

Working with the Master Slide:
Changing the Default Options, Slide Set-up, Set Up the Master, Using Bullets, choosing and changing scheme colours, Adding a background/graphics to slides

Working with objects / flowcharts / clipart:
Selecting Objects, Using the Drawing Tools, Resizing, Copying, Moving, Aligning, Rotating, Scaling, Duplicating, Rotating & Flipping, Grouping Objects, Creating & Editing a Flowchart Diagram, Enhancing Objects/Shapes using Borders, Fills & Shading Patterns, Using Format Painter Command

Working with clipart/graphics:
Adding, Ungrouping, Re-colouring Clipart, Cropping Clipart, Creating a Screen Grab

Using slides/adding text from other programs:
Importing Slides from Other Presentations, Reapplying Slide master to update slides, Importing Text from Microsoft Word

Working with tables:
Creating, Editing, Formatting, Using Tabs

Working with charts:
Creating, Formatting, Importing Data from Excel into Chart

Working with organisation charts:
Creating, Enhancing, Saving and Returning to Microsoft PowerPoint

Slide Shows:
Adding Transitions/Adding Timings, Creating Builds Running a Slide Show, Package for CD

Printing Slides:
Setting up the Slide & Printing Slides, Printing Outlines, Handouts & Notes