Microsoft Powerpoint IT Training

Anyone who has never used PowerPoint before (or any other graphics package).

Delegates must be confident in using a mouse.

By the end of the course, you will be confident in using the essential features of PowerPoint to create and alter simple Presentation Slides.

In particular you will be able to:

• Create and save a new presentation
• View your presentation in different ways
• View the master slide and make changes that are reflected throughout the entire presentation
• Change the background colour and colour scheme for an existing template
• Add pictures to your presentation
• Use the drawing tools to add shapes or to create your own pictures
• Enhance your presentation by adding special effects to your slides, text and pictures

Anyone who has used PowerPoint before to create and alter simple presentations but would like to create professional-looking presentations more quickly.

You will have time to work on your own presentations during the course so you may like to bring along an existing presentation that you would like to work on. You may like to bring a memory stick so that you can take it away what you have created at the end of the course.

Delegates must be confident in using Windows and a mouse. Additionally you must have used PowerPoint before and be familiar with creating and printing a basic presentation, adding and editing text.

By the end of the course you will be able to create consistent, professional-looking presentations, including charts, diagrams, and animation. You will be able to set up your Slide show and create a presentation package to take away with you.

In particular you will be able to:

• Generate the text for a presentation from an existing Word document
• Make global changes to your presentation using Masters
• Create your own Design Template and apply it to a presentation
• Import Excel data as the basis for a Chart
• Create a simple Organisation Chart
• Create diagrams using shapes and align, distribute and group them
• Use Custom Animation to animate different parts of a Chart
• Make your presentation interactive by creating Hyperlinks
• Use Custom Show to adapt your presentation to suit different audiences
• Enable your presentation to be viewed via the Internet and/or a portable memory device

Anyone who has used PowerPoint before to create and alter simple presentations.

Delegates must be confident in using a mouse. Additionally you must have used PowerPoint before and be familiar with creating and printing a basic presentation, adding and editing text, applying a design template to the existing presentation (see our PowerPoint Essentials outline).

By the end of the course, you will be confident in using PowerPoint to create professional looking presentations as a standard, that include logos, pictures, sound, film and charts.

In particular you will be able to:

• Improve the look of your key slides and amend the look and layout of your bulleted text
• Create standard presentations
• Add logos and pictures to your slides and use sound and film
• Visually represent numbers and text (as a chart), to make them stand out and easy to understand
• Create a visual representation of the staff in your organisation (as a chart)
• Create automatic links within your presentation