PowerPoint Training Course
in Chicago

Microsoft PowerPoint Course outline

Getting Started with Microsoft Powerpoint

• The updated menu format that includes a new Office button for all your file-storage needs
• A variety of slideshow controls
• A number of viewing options that facilitate the design process as you build your presentation
• The Help menu for questions that need a quick answer

Creating New Presentations with Powerpoint

• Plan your presentation and then turn placeholders into real text and graphics
• Quickly add, delete, and rearrange slides
• Easily integrate slides from other presentations
• Save time by setting up and saving your own custom slide layouts
• Fine-tune mouse controls for slide editing
• Duplicate, delete, move and resize text, images, charts and diagrams

Formatting Slides in Powerpoint

• Easily copy styles to other parts of your presentation
• Create an automatic list with the symbols and spacing you want
• Use the Find and Replace tool for quick global changes
• Use the Clipboard Pane to add in items from other Office applications
• Artfully align text, and design line spacing and indentation

Drawing Objects in Powerpoint

• Insert, resize, and rotate objects from the Shapes gallery
• Make a point stand out by adding WordArt effects to your text
• Create a shadow or bevel effect with the click of a button
• Align objects according to a grid or relative to one another
• Add and modify text within an object

Using Graphics in Powerpoint

• Incorporate WordArt text objects for attention-grabbing headlines
• Refine images, for example, by adjusting brightness and contrast
• Add unique picture borders to generate a framing effect
• Make certain parts of your image "see-through" with the Recolor tool
• Crop and resize images to fit your slide layout
• Group several items in order to lock their relative positioning

Creating Tables in Powerpoint

• Insert a new table with four quick and easy methods to choose from
• Use your mouse efficiently to move, adjust, or select table components
• Append pictures, text boxes, shapes and more to your table
• Incorporate charts based on Excel spreadsheets
• Use SmartArt to create high-impact and dynamic diagrams, like workflow, relationship, or hierarchies

Adding Finishing Touches

• Establish master settings for font, size, color, style and alignment of your text
• Format and redesign all your pages at once using a slide master
• Add time and date markers that update automatically
• Insert special effect transitions to add dimension and visual appeal
• Record timings automatically as you rehearse your speech
• Elaborate on key points hidden from your audience by adding speaker notes

Proofing & Delivering PPT Presentations

• Eliminate errors using Spell Check and AutoCorrect functions
• Create winning phrases with synonyms in the Thesaurus
• Run your slideshow from user-defined starting points
• Modify which slides are shown depending on your audience
• Print out your presentation in a variety of formats

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.

Microsoft PowerPoint Course outline

Working with Pre-Built Templates & Themes

• Use templates when creating new presentations
• Change your presentation's look by applying color and font themes
• Work with the confusing slide master options

Adding Images, Photos, Sounds, & Music in Powerpoint

• Insert, crop, and resize photos
• Find and insert clip art
• Add sound and music clips

Adding Videos & Animation in Powerpoint

• Integrate video clips
• Animate text, shapes, and charts
• Create a Photo Gallery presentation

Formatting your Text into SmartArt Graphics & Tables

• Convert your text into the appropriate diagram
• Understand the different types of shape diagrams
• Format tables

Creating an Interactive Powerpoint Presentation with Action Buttons

• Add navigation action buttons so you can page backward and forward or navigate to a specific slide
• Add action buttons that launch animation effects so you can interact with the items on a specific slide

Sharing, Reviewing, & Distributing Powerpoint Presentations

• Set review options and post comments on a presentation
• Check spelling and grammar
• Finalize and password-protect presentations
• Save presentations as a CD packages, individual image files, or web pages

Integrating Powerpoint with Word & Excel

• Create a presentation using a Word outline to establish structure and flow
• Embed and link content between different types of Microsoft Office files
• Create a hyperlink on a slide to open other Office documents

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.

Slide Masters - The Next Level

• Create a new slide master
• Preserve a slide master
• Restore Placeholders within a slide master
• Learn to create custom layouts

Working with Advanced Hyperlinks

• Use invisible, unobtrusive hyperlinks
• Incorporate hyperlinks into a Table of Contents

Embed/Add Video to Presentations

• Insert a video from a website
• Upload and add video from a file
• Experiment with playback and formatting tools

Advanced Animation Techniques

• Animate charts and SmartArt graphics
• Explore multiple animation effects
• Adjust the timing for animation effects
• Use animation triggers
• Add bookmarks and video triggers

Advanced File Collaboration

• Understand the differences between embedded and linked objects
• Determine if an object is embedded or linked
• Effectively manager linked objects

Tips and Tricks for Advanced Formatting

• Analyze and replace fonts
• Embed a custom font
• Customize indentation
• Hide background graphics in or out of master
• Work with SmartTags

Advanced Slideshow Options

• Create custom slideshows
• Work in kiosk mode
• Record voice narration

Finalize a PowerPoint Presentation

• Perfect a presentation with the slide inspector toll
• Create a slide library
• Publish a slide-to-slide library
• Protect your PowerPoint presentation file

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.