MS PowerPoint Intro / Intermediate

Duration: One Day

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    Target Audience & Purpose

    PowerPoint Intro / Intermediate is for people who wish to create simple presentations, and is a pre-requisite for the Advanced course.

    Objectives

    By the end of this course participants should be able to:

    • Start and end a PowerPoint session
    • Edit a presentation
    • Create different types of slides
    • Use the Outline Tab
    • Add Clipart to a slide
    • Format slides and use templates
    • Use the Slide Sorter to reorganise a presentation
    • Print various components of a presentation
    • Run a slide show

    Course Inclusions

    • Comprehensive learning materials incl. exercise files
    • Post course telephone support
    • ‘Certificate of Attendance’ on completion of course

    Course Prerequisites

    Participants should already:

    • Be competent in using a mouse and keyboard
    • Have an understanding of Windows

    MS PowerPoint Intro / Intermediate – Course Outline

    Download Exercise Files

    Using Styles
    Using the Quick Styles Gallery, Using Style Inspector, Managing Styles, Applying Styles, Creating a Style, Adding a Style to the Quick Styles Gallery, Editing an Existing Style, Clearing Formats and Styles, Deleting a Style

    Working with Tables
    Create & Navigate a Table, Enter Text into a Table, Insert a Blank Line, Use Table Styles, Hide and Show Gridlines, Use the Draw Table Feature, Convert Existing Text into a Table, Insert Quick Tables

    Using Section Breaks
    Work with, Insert, Remove & Modify Section Breaks, Insert a Next Page, Continuous & Odd/Even Page Break, Format a Section

    Using Bookmarks and Cross References
    Work with, Create, View, Go to, Cross-reference & Delete a Bookmark

    Creating a Table of Contents
    Using a Table of Contents, Generating a Table of Contents, Removing a Table of Contents, Using Custom Styles, Viewing the TOC Field Code, Updating a Table of Contents, Inserting TC Field Codes, Using TC Fields, Using Outline Levels

    Creating an Index
    Using an Index, Creating Main Index Entries, Creating Index Subentries, Typing Index Entries, Cross-referencing Index Entries, Generating an Index, Viewing the INDEX Field Code, Updating an Index

    Using Footnotes and Endnotes
    Use, Insert, Set, View, Browse, Move, Copy and Delete a Note

    Creating a Table of Authorities
    Marking Citations, Inserting a Table of Authorities, Updating a Table of Authorities

    Creating Citations and Bibliography
    Inserting Citations, Managing Sources, Editing Citation and Bibliography Styles, Inserting a Bibliography

    Using Outline View
    Creating an Outline, Working in Outline View, Collapsing/Expanding Outline Headings, Displaying Outline Heading Levels, Moving an Outline Heading or Body Text, Numbering the Outline Levels, Displaying/Hiding Outline Text Formats

    Creating Master Documents
    Using a Master Document, Inserting Subdocuments, Collapsing/Expanding Subdocuments, Unlinking Subdocuments, Splitting and Merging Subdocuments, Locking Subdocuments, Opening Subdocuments

    Working with Comments and Revisions
    Enabling Change Tracking, Setting Change Tracking Options, Disabling Change Tracking, Inserting Comments, Managing Comments, Viewing and Navigating Comments, Enabling Balloon Options, Selecting Options for Show Markup, Displaying the Reviewing Pane, Comparing Documents, Combining Multiple Revisions, Reviewing Tracked Changes, Accepting/Rejecting All Changes, Printing Markup

    Inserting Dates and Symbols
    Insert the Date & Time, Insert Symbols and Special Characters