Participants will learn to create, edit, and enhance slideshow presentations to create professional-looking sales presentations, employee training, instructional materials, and kiosk slideshows. Learners will gain a fundamental understanding of the PowerPoint environment and the correct use of key features of this application.

POWERPOINT ESSENTIALS COURSE OUTLINE:

Module One: Create and manage presentations

• Create a presentation
• Create a new presentation
• Create a presentation based on a template
• Import Word document outlines
• Insert and format slides
• Insert specific slide layouts
• Duplicate existing slides
• Hide and unhide slides
• Delete slides
• Apply a different slide layout
• Modify individual slide backgrounds
• Insert slide headers, footers, and page numbers
• Modify slides, handouts, and notes
• Change the slide master theme or background
• Modify slide master content
• Create a slide layout
• Modify a slide layout
• Modify the handout master
• Modify the notes master
• Order and group slides
• Create sections
• Modify slide order
• Rename sections
• Change presentation options and views
• Change slide size
• Change views of a presentation
• Set file properties
• Configure a presentation for print
• Print all or part of a presentation
• Print notes pages; print handouts
• Print in color, gray scale, or black and white
• Configure and present a slide show
• Create custom slide shows
• Configure slide show options
• Rehearse slide show timing
• Present a slide show by using Presenter View

Module Two: Insert and Format Text, Shapes, and Images

• Insert and format text
• Insert text on a slide
• Apply formatting and styles to text
• Apply WordArt styles to text
• Format text in multiple columns
• Create bulleted and numbered lists
• Insert hyperlinks
• Insert and Format Shapes and Text Boxes
• Insert or replace shapes
• Insert text boxes, resize shapes and text boxes
• Format shapes and text boxes
• Apply styles to shapes and text boxes
• Insert and format images
• Insert images
• Resize and crop image
• Apply styles and effects
• Order and group objects
• Order objects
• Align objects
• Group objects
• Display alignment tools

Module Three: Insert Tables, Charts, SmartArt, and Media

• Insert and Format Tables
• Create a table
• Insert and delete table rows and columns
• Apply table styles
• Import a table
• Insert and Format Charts
• Create a chart
• Import a chart
• Change the Chart Type
• Add a legend to a chart
• Change the chart style of a chart
• Insert and Format SmartArt Graphics
• Create SmartArt graphics
• Convert lists to SmartArt graphics
• Add shapes to SmartArt graphics
• Reorder shapes in SmartArt graphics
• Change the color of SmartArt graphics
• Insert and manage media
• Insert audio and video clips
• Configure media playback options
• Adjust media window size
• Set the video start and stop time
• Set media timing options

Module Four: Apply transitions and animations

• Apply slide transitions
• Insert Slide Transitions
• Set transition effect options
• Animate Slide Content
• Apply animations to objects
• Apply animations to text
• Set animation effect options
• Set animation paths
• Set Timing for Transitions and Animations
• Set transition effect duration
• Configure transition start and finish options
• Reorder animations on a slide

Module Five: Manage Multiple Presentations

• Merge Content From Multiple Presentations
• Insert slides from another presentation
• compare two presentations
• insert comments, review comments
• Finalize Presentations
• Protect a presentation
• Inspect a presentation
• Proof a presentation
• Preserve presentation content
• Export presentations to other formats