Basic Microsoft PowerPoint
This Microsoft PowerPoint training course aims to provide new PowerPoint users with the essentials skills needed to create, edit and present professional looking presentations using text, tables, diagrams, charts and pictures as well as providing presentations tips.
Description
This Microsoft PowerPoint training course aims to provide new PowerPoint users with the essentials skills needed to create, edit and present professional looking presentations using text, tables, diagrams, charts and pictures as well as providing presentations tips.
Course Objectives
By attending this ICL training course, delegates will be able to:
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Work with the basic features of powerpoint
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Create a new presentation
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Work with presentations
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Insert text into a slide and apply basic formatting
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Work with the various slide layouts
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Create and work with smartart graphics
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Draw and format shapes
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Navigate a slide show in powerpoint
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Use a range of printing techniques
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Follow the procedures for using various forms of Help
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Create brilliant presentations.
How will this Training Course be Presented?
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Presenter-taught training in a computer lab
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Online training via the platform Zoom or MS Teams
Prerequisites
Assumes prior skill and knowledge required to create, edit, print and chart simple worksheets, as well as understand ranges and the copying process.
You should be also familiar with the basic functions of a computer operating system such as navigating the environment using a mouse and keyboard, starting applications, copying and pasting objects, formatting text, creating folders, opening and saving files, familiarity with the accessing the Internet and web browsers.
Additional information
Please bring a USB flash drive to class if you would like to make a copy of your work or any relevant class materials. Alternatively, you can save these to a cloud storage space or email them to your personal email address.
Software
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Recommended operating system: Windows or Mac
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Recommended software for PC: MS Excel 2013, 2016, 2019, 365
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Recommended software for Mac OS: MS Excel 2016, 2019, 365
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Recommended browser: Chrome
Who is this Training Course for?
Suitable for beginners. Assumes little or no knowledge of the software.
The Course Content
Getting to know PowerPoint
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Starting PowerPoint
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Understanding the start screen
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Creating a new blank presentation
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The PowerPoint screen
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How microsoft powerpoint works
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Using the ribbon
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Using ribbon keytips
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Showing and collapsing the ribbons
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Understanding the backstage view
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Accessing the backstage view
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Using shortcut menus
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Understanding dialog boxes
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Launching dialog boxes
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Understanding the quick access toolbar
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Adding commands to the QAT
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Understanding the status bar
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Customising the status bar
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Exiting safely from PowerPoint
Your first presentation
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Creating presentations in PowerPoint
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Creating a presentation
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Applying theme variants
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The save as place
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The save as dialog box
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Typing text into a slide
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Inserting new slides
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Typing text using the outline pane
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Applying slide transitions
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Saving a presentation
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Previewing a slide show
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Closing a presentation
Working with presentations
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The open place
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The open dialog box
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Opening a presentation
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Opening multiple presentations
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Switching between open presentations
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Understanding presentation views
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Changing presentation views
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Navigating a presentation
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Using the zoom tool
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Opening a recent presentation
Working with text
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Editing text
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Checking spelling and grammar
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Understanding font formatting
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Applying font formatting
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Applying paragraph formatting
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Changing bullet and numbering styles
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Moving and resizing placeholders
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Applying wordart to text
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Converting text to smartart
Slide layouts
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Understanding slide layouts
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Inserting a title slide
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Inserting a title and content slide
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Inserting a section header slide
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Inserting a table
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Inserting a picture with caption slide
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Inserting a chart
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Changing the slide layout
SmartArt
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Understanding smartart
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Inserting a smartart graphic
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Inserting text into smartart
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Adding shapes below
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Adding shapes above
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Adding shapes before and after
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Adding an assistant
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Promoting and demoting shapes
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Switching smartart right to left
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Resizing smartart
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Changing the smartart layout
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Applying a colour scheme
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Applying a smartart style
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Deleting smartart shapes
Shapes
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Drawing shapes
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Resizing shapes
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Editing shapes
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Positioning shapes
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Arranging shapes
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Merging shapes
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Formatting shapes
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Using the eyedropper
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Copying shapes
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Aligning shapes using the ribbon
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Aligning objects using the smart guides
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Inserting and formatting text
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Connecting shapes
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Grouping shapes
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Rotating shapes
Preparing for presentations
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Using slide sorter view
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Reusing slides
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Adding sections
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Adding notes to your slides
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Slide numbers
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About hyperlinks
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Creating an internal hyperlink
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Creating a hyperlink to another presentation
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Creating a hyperlink to another application
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Keyboard shortcuts for navigating slide shows
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Using resume reading
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Presenting a slide show
Printing you presentation
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Understanding printing
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Previewing slides
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Printing slides
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Printing handouts
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Printing notes pages
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Printing the outline
Getting help
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Understanding how help works
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Accessing the help window
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Navigating the help window
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Using the office website
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Googling help
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Printing a help topic
Brilliant presentations
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Make it readable
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The four pillars of great design
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Perfect presentation layouts
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Presenting polished presentations
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Presentation methods and hardware