Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students will be able to:

Produce and store a presentation
Access and retrieve data for editing
Edit simple text and slides to a required format and layout
Produce complex presentations to a required format and layout

Method
This course is provided as hands on and includes and extensive workshop manual and data disk for use during the course.

Creating a Basic Presentation

The AutoContent Wizard
Navigating a variety of views
Running and navigating your show
Saving, closing and opening
Creating presentations from templates
Adding, deleting and modifying slides
Applying a design template
Modifying and re-organising text and slides
Formatting text
Applying global presentation changes
Checking for spelling and style errors
Exiting PowerPoint

Graphics, Special Effects and Automating Your Show

Inserting and modifying pictures and drawing objects
Changing your colour scheme
Adding a slide footer
Automating your show with slide transitions and builds
Adding animation, sound and movies
Printing slides and audience handouts

Additional Topics Covered

Learning as you work with Help and the Office Assistant
Rehearsing your presentation
Customising the ClipArt gallery
Saving your presentations as a template
Pack and Go Wizard
Managing your electronic presentation
Adding functionality with Action buttons
Exporting slides and slide text to Word
Creating organisational charts
Inserting Word tables and Excel sheets
Creating charts