Services: Remote Learning, Online Classes, On-site Group Training.

Course Curriculum: PowerPoint Advance

Subject Areas Covered
1. Advanced Presentation
2. Images and Hyperlinks
3. Animation and Transition
4. Action Buttons and Media
5. Slide Masters
6. Working with Objects
7. Importing and Exporting
8. Tables
9. Charts
10. Templates
11. Setting Up
12 Saving and Sharing

Module: PowerPoint Presentation

• Understanding PowerPoint Presentation
  
• Applying a Theme
  
• Typing Text into a Slide
  
• Inserting New Slides
  
• Typing Text Using the Outline Pane
  
• Inserting an Online Picture
  
• Presenting a Slide Show
  
• Printing Handouts
  
• Using Slide Sorter View
  
• Reusing Slides
  
• Adding Sections
  
• Adding Notes to Your Slides
  
• Slide Numbers
  
• Keyboard Shortcuts for Navigating Slide Shows
  
• Using Resume Reading
  
• Presenting a Slide Show
  
• Saving a Presentation
  
• Closing Presentation
  

Module: Using Images

• Formatting the Picture Pane
  
• Adding and Removing an Image Background
  
• Applying Colour Corrections
  
• Recolouring an Image
  
• Applying a Picture Style
  
• Applying Picture Effects
  
• Applying Artistic Effects
  
• Cropping an Image
  

Module: Hyperlinks

• Understanding Hyperlinks
  
• Creating an Internal Hyperlink
  
• Creating a Hyperlink to link to another Presentation
  
• Creating a Hyperlink to link to another Application
  

Module: Animation and Transitions

• Understanding Animation
  
• Animating Text
  
• Animating Objects
  
• Applying Multiple Effects
  
• Applying Motion Paths
  
• The Animation Pane
  
• Setting the Timing
  
• Animating SmartArt Graphics
  
• Adding Slide Transitions
  
• Using and Changing Pre-Set Animation
  
• Using Custom Animation
  

Module: Action Buttons and Media

• Inserting a Video
  
• Inserting an Audio Clip
  
• Formatting Media Clips
  
• Editing Audio Clips
  
• Optimising and Compressing Media
  
• Understanding Action Buttons
  
• Inserting Action Buttons
  

Module: The Slide Masters

• Viewing the Slide Master
  
• Changing the Master Font
  
• Modifying Bullets
  
• Inserting an Image
  
• Applying Slide Transitions to the Slide Master
  
• Inserting Slide Numbers
  
• Creating Custom Slide Layouts
  
• Modifying Slide Layouts
  

Module: Working with Objects

• Drawing Lines, Shapes and Text Boxes
  
• Modifying Lines, Shapes and Text Boxes
  
• Aligning Objects
  
• Rotating Objects
  
• Flipping Objects
  
• Grouping Objects
  
• Ungrouping Objects
  

Module: Importing and Exporting

• Importing between Word and PowerPoint
  
• Exporting between Word and PowerPoint
  
• Importing between Excel and PowerPoint
  
• Exporting between Excel and PowerPoint
  
• Inserting slides from other Presentations
  

Module: Tables

• Adding a Table to a Slide
  
• Table Tools - The Design Tab
  
• Table Tools - The Layout Tab
  
• Formatting and aligning table data
  
• Applying a table style
  
• Inserting rows and columns
  
• Merging and splitting cells
  
• Resizing and positioning a table
  
• Applying borders
  
• Applying shading
  
• Adjusting column width
  
• Adjusting row height
  

Module: Charts

• Understanding Charts
  
• Inserting a Chart Using the Ribbon
  
• Changing the Chart Type
  
• Chart Elements
  
• Using Quick Layouts
  
• Understanding Chart Buttons
  
• Changing the Layout of Chart Elements
  
• Applying a Chart Style
  
• Understanding the Chart Format Panes
  
• Formatting Chart Elements
  
• Editing a Data Series
  
• Hiding Data Series
  
• Working with Pie Charts
  
• Working other various Charts
  

Module: Templates

• Using Templates
  
• Setting a Custom Templates location
  
• Using an existing Template
  
• Creating a Template from a Template
  
• Saving a Custom Template
  
• Creating a Template from a Theme
  
• Modifying a Template
  
• Using a Custom Template
  

Module: Setting up your PowerPoint Presentation

• About Self Running Presentations
  
• Recording a Slide Show
  
• Setting Up a Self-Running Presentation
  
• Rehearsing Timings
  
• Setting Up a Speaker-Led Show
  
• Creating a Custom Show
  
• Understanding Presenter View
  
• Using Presenter View
  

Module: Saving and Sharing Your PowerPoint Presentation

• Packaging Presentations for CD
  
• Saving a Presentation as a PDF Document
  
• Saving a Presentation as a Video
  
• Sending a Presentation via Email
  
• Presenting a Slide Show Online
  
• Saving to a Storage Device
  

Helpful Tips
To benefit from our PowerPoint advanced training course, learners must have good working knowledge in these intermediate areas;

• Understand different types of information for example text, numbers, images, graphics, sound, and videos.
  
• Able to use images, video or sound for presentations and in addition able to use Clip Art, photo, scanned images, borders, create diagrams or graphics, image formats.
  
• Able to use pre-recorded audio or video clips and understand audio and video formats.
  
• Able to use charts and tables for presentations and understand table, pie chart, graph, diagram, organisational chart, and flowchart.
  
• Able to combine information for presentations for example images, charts, tables with text by inserting, re-sizing and positioning, use of text boxes, presentation with audio and/or video, import information produced using other software and reference external information with hyperlinks.
  
• Understand and adhere to constraints on content; copyright law (e.g. on music downloads or use of other people's images), acknowledgement of sources, avoiding plagiarism, equal opportunities, local guidelines, and on delivery (e.g. environment, timing).
  
• Able to store and retrieve data, use Save, Save As, Find, Open, Close; Naming protocols; Reducing file size, and saving presentation as a stand-alone show or as web pages.
  
• Understand Slide Structure for example layout, use existing templates, designs and styles, organisational guidelines, adapt and create new templates.
  
• Understand Presentation effects for example video, sound, animation, slide transitions, visual and sound effects, and hyperlinks.
  
• Able to edit slides, use size, crop, and position objects; wrap text, add captions and graphic elements, slide order and change orientation.
  
• Understand animation and transition effects, adding and removing hyperlinks, applying and creating transitions, and applying animations.
  
• Able to Format slides, apply bullets, numbering, line spacing, alignment, colour, fonts, size, backgrounds, colour schemes, master slides and themes.
  
• Able to Present slides, apply timing, content, meaning; organisation of information, audience needs and location.
  
• Able to Prepare slides, view and re-order slides; rehearse timing and effects, set up and amend slide show settings, print slides, handouts, and speaker notes.
  
• Able to check presentation, spell check, grammar check, orientation, layout, slide order, text alignment and formatting, accuracy, clarity, transitions, and timings.
  
• Able to check problems with presentations, which vary according to the content, for example, Text, Formatting, Styles, Images, Size, Position, Orientation, Effects, Timing, Brightness, Contrast, Sound levels and Order of Animations.
  

Point to Note: Customers may customised modules according to their needs and learning requirements, and if you want to discuss specific modules not listed above, please speak to us, we're here to help.

Course Curriculum: PowerPoint Intermediate

Subject areas covered:
1. PowerPoint Design Tips and Techniques
2. What's new in PowerPoint
3. Customising Presentation Templates
4. Enhancing Presentations
5. Using SmartArt, Tables and Charts
6. Formatting and modifying tables
7. Advanced Presentation Techniques
8. Printing and Handouts

Introduction: PowerPoint Design Tips and Techniques & What's new in PowerPoint.

Module: Customising Presentation Templates

• Modifying templates
  
• Building custom templates and themes
  
• Building custom slide masters
  
• Advanced slide master techniques
  

Module: Enhancing Presentations

• Advanced drawing techniques
  
• Using alignment tools
  
• Sourcing and enhancing images
  
• Adding movies and sound
  
• Using animations and transitions
  

Module: Using SmartArt, Tables and Charts

• Inserting and editing SmartArt
  
• Creating organisation charts
  
• Formatting and modifying tables
  
• Inserting and designing charts and graphs
  
• Working with Excel - linking tables and charts
  

Module: Advanced Presentation Techniques

• Advanced slideshow delivery options
  
• Organising your presentation effectively
  

Module: Printing and Handouts

• Printing options
  
• Working with Word - exporting handouts and notes
  
• Exporting to other formats - PDF and video
  

Helpful Tips
To benefit from our PowerPoint intermediate training, learners must have good working knowledge in these basic areas;

• Understand different types of information for example text, numbers, images, graphics and sound.
  
• Understand the importance of copyright laws for example on music downloads or use of other people's images, acknowledgment of sources, avoiding plagiarism, equal opportunities, and local guidelines.
  
• Able to combine images, charts or tables with text by inserting, re-sizing and positioning and the use of text boxes.
  
• Able to store and retrieve files and folders and able to create, name, open, save, save as, print, close and find files.
  
• Understand organisational guidelines and slide structure and able to use layout, use existing templates, use designs and styles.
  
• Able to edit slides for example drag and drop, find, replace, undo or redo, resize, crop and position objects; wrap text, add lines and simple shapes.
  
• Able to format slides for example bullets, numbering, line spacing, alignment, colour, fonts, size and backgrounds.
  
• Able to present slides for example utilising timing, content, meaning, organisation of information and meeting audience needs.
  
• Able to prepare slides for example to view, re-order, rehearse timing, print slides, print handouts and speaker notes.
  
• Able to check presentation and use spell check, grammar check, orientation, layout, slide order, text alignment, formatting and accuracy.
  

Point to Note: Customers may customised modules according to their needs and learning requirements, and if you want to discuss specific modules not listed above, please speak to us, we're here to help.

Course Curriculum: PowerPoint Basic

Subject areas covered:
1. PowerPoint Design Tips and Techniques
2. What's new in PowerPoint
3. Getting started with PowerPoint
4. Creating Your First Presentation
5. Formatting and Proofing
6. Working with text and objects
7. Tables and Charts
8. Delivering Your Presentation

Introduction: PowerPoint Design Tips and Techniques & What's new in PowerPoint.

Module: Getting started with PowerPoint

• Exploring the PowerPoint environment
  
• Using Help options
  
• Opening & Closing PowerPoint presentations
  

Module: Creating Your First Presentation

• Creating new presentations
  
• Saving presentations
  
• Working in the outline tab and slide sorter
  
• Rearranging and deleting slides
  
• Using slides from other presentations
  

Module: Formatting and Proofing

• Moving and copying text
  
• Text formatting
  
• Setting tabs and alignment
  
• Using the spelling checker and AutoCorrect
  
• Using templates and themes
  

Module: Working with text and objects

• Drawing objects
  
• Using AutoShapes
  
• Enhancing objects
  
• Using Drawing Tools
  

Module: Tables and Charts

• Creating tables
  
• Working with tables
  
• Creating and enhancing charts and graphs
  

Module: Delivering Your Presentation

• Adding speaker notes and footers
  
• Running presentations
  
• Printing presentations
  
• Exporting to other formats
  

Point to Note: Customers may customised modules according to their needs and learning requirements, and if you want to discuss specific modules not listed above, please speak to us, we're here to help.

Services: Remote Learning, Online Classes, On-site Group Training.

Course Delivery Location: Our online tutorial services are delivered using Cisco or Zoom as our virtual training platform and you can start learning in the comfort of your home without the need to travel.

We also offer group training for employers who want to improve their staff ICT skills, we deliver training at our centre or at employers designated premises.

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