Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 - Levels 1-3

1 Day Instructor Led Course per Level - 7 Contact Hours per Level

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- International Curriculum

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Previous Software Versions: MS Office XP, 2002, 2000, 2003

Level 1 Course Outline

FIRST STEPS WITH PRESENTATIONS
• Opening PowerPoint
• Opening a presentation
• Navigating between slides
• Using the Zoom tool
• Changing PowerPoint views
• Using Help
• Saving a presentation
• Closing a presentation
• Closing PowerPoint
• Opening multiple presentations
• Switching between multiple presentations

CREATING A PRESENTATION
• Creating a new presentation
• Inserting a new slide
• Undo and Redo
• Saving a presentation
• Saving a presentation using a different name

MANIPULATING SLIDES
• Inserting slides with a particular slide layout
• Modifying the slide layout
• Changing the background colour on the active slide
• Changing background colour on all the slides within a presentation

THEMES
• Applying a theme to a presentation

TEXT BOXES (PLACEHOLDERS)
• What are Text Boxes (Placeholders)?
• Resizing a Text Box (Placeholder)
• Moving a Text Box (Placeholder)
• Compatibility issues when saving a presentation

SELECTING, COPYING MOVING, RESIZING AND DELETING TEXT
• Selecting text
• Moving text within a slide
• Moving text between slides within a presentation or between presentations
• Copying text within a slide

• Copying text between slides within a presentation or between presentations
• Deleting text

SEARCHING YOUR PRESENTATION
• Using Find
• Using Replace

FONT FORMATTING
• Font formatting options
• Changing the font type
• Changing font size
• Increasing or decreasing the font size
• Bold, Italic or Underline formatting
• Strikethrough effects
• Shadow effects
• Character spacing
• Changing case
• Font colour
• Clearing all text formatting

PARAGRAPH FORMATTING
• Text alignment
• Columns
• Modifying bullet point formatting
• Using numbering instead of bullet points
• Changing the list level
• Line spacing
• Using Outline view
• PowerPoint Notes
• Text direction
• Text alignment within a Text Box (placeholder)
• Text Autofit
• Using the Format Painter

SELECTING, COPYING MOVING, RESIZING AND DELETING ILLUSTRATIONS
• Selecting an illustration
• Moving an illustration
• Copying an illustration
• Deleting an illustration
• Resizing an illustration
• Stretching an illustration

• Copying illustrations between presentations
• Moving illustrations between presentations

INSERTING ILLUSTRATIONS
• Inserting Illustrations within PowerPoint
• Inserting pictures
• Inserting Clip Art
• Inserting Shapes
• Inserting text into a shape
• Inserting perfect circles or perfect squares
• Inserting SmartArt
• Inserting Charts

FORMATTING SHAPES
• Formatting the shape background fill colour style
• Formatting the shape line weight and style
• Formatting the shape line colour
• Applying a shadow to an illustration
• Modifying arrow line shapes and size
• Rotating or flipping an illustration
• Rotating illustrations by dragging with the mouse
• Layering illustrations to the front or back
• Aligning illustrations vertically
• Aligning illustrations horizontally

FORMATTING CHARTS
• Changing the chart type
• Changing the background colour in the chart
• Changing the column, bar, line or pie slice colours in the chart

ORGANISATION CHARTS
• What is an organisation chart?
• Creating an organisation chart
• Adding labels to items within an organisation chart
• Adding a co-worker to an organisation chart
• Adding a subordinates within an organisation chart
• Adding a manager within an organisation chart
• Removing an item from an organisation chart

MOVING, COPYING AND DELETING SLIDES
• Moving slides within a presentation or between presentations
• Copying slides within a presentation
• Deleting a slide or slides
• Copying slides between presentations
• Moving slides between presentations

SLIDE SHOWS
• Running a slide show
• Slide show transition effects
• Slide show animation effects

PRINTING
• Spell-checking
• Using Portrait or Landscape slide orientation
• Selecting your output format
• Visually inspect each slide before printing
• Printing a presentation

CUSTOMISING POWERPOINT
• Modifying PowerPoint options

Level 2 Course Outline:

PHOTO ALBUMS
• What is a PowerPoint Photo Album?
• Creating a Photo Album
• Reordering the picture sequence
• Rotating images within the Photo Album
• Modifying the picture layout
• Modify the frame shape
• Applying a theme to the Photo Album.
• Displaying your pictures in Black and White
• Adding captions to each picture
• Adjusting picture contrast and brightness

MEDIA CLIPS
• Supported media file formats
• Inserting a sound clip
• Modifying the sound clip volume level
• Controlling when the sound is played within a media clip
• Hiding a the sound clip icon
• Using a picture instead of the sound icon within a slide
• Inserting a movie clip
• Playing the movie full screen

TABLES
• Inserting a table
• Applying a style to a table
• Cell background shading
• Adding table effects
• Adding 'Quick Styles' to selected text
• Applying borders to cells
• Deleting rows or columns
• Inserting rows or columns

SLIDE SHOW ANIMATION EFFECTS
• What are animation effects?
• Applying animation effects to text
• Applying animation effects to illustrations
• Custom animation
• Changing the sequence of animation within a slide

SLIDE SHOW MANIPULATION
• Inserting Action Buttons
• Setting Mouse over properties
• Practising slide timings
• Using slide timings
• Slide show looping options
• Hiding slides
• Displaying hidden slides
• Annotating slide shows
• Creating a custom slide show
• Editing a custom slide show
• Running custom slide shows

TEMPLATES AND SLIDE MASTERS
• Templates, Slide Masters and Themes
• Creating and saving a template
• Modifying a Slide Master
• Creating footers and inserting the date
• Handout and Notes Masters
• Modifying the Handout Master
• Modifying the Notes Master

SLIDE MANIPULATION
• Merging slides or complete presentations
• Merging a word-processed outline into a presentation
• Applying graduated background fill colours, texture & patterns
• Saving a slide in gif, jpeg or bmp format

MANIPULATING ILLUSTRATIONS
• Moving a graphic backwards or forwards
• Grouping and ungrouping objects
• Positioning a graphic relative to the slide
• Distributing selected graphics horizontally, vertically relative to a slide
• Converting a picture to a drawn object
• Controlling the display of background pictures on a slide

SHAPE FORMATTING
• Applying shape effects
• Applying (& repositioning) a shadow (of a specified colour) to a graphic
• Applying graduated background effects to a drawn object
• Applying a semi-transparent effect to a graphic
• Applying 3-D effects to a drawn object
• Further Shape style formatting options
• Using the Format Painter to apply styles to objects

PICTURE FORMATTING
• Applying picture styles
• Modifying contrast and brightness
• Re-colouring pictures
• Cropping a picture
• Re-scaling and rotating a picture
• Resetting the image size
• Rotating and flipping pictures
• Setting picture shape
• Converting a picture to a greyscale format
• Saving a picture using a specific file format
• Changing the colour depth of a picture

CHARTS AND FLOW CHARTS
• Creating a chart
• Changing the chart type
• Applying chart styles and layouts
• Creating a line-column on two axes / mixed chart
• Formatting the vertical axis
• Drawing a flowchart using built-in flowchart options
• Changing or deleting flowchart shapes within a flowchart
• Changing connector types between flowchart shapes

LINKING OBJECTS
• Linking an Excel chart into a PowerPoint presentation
• Updating a linked object
• Editing linked data within a presentation
• Converting a linked object within a slide to an embedded object
• Linking a picture from a file

PRESENTATION PLANNING AND DESIGN CONCEPTS
• Planning the right presentation for the right environment
• Physical issues leading to a successful presentation
• Design considerations
• Matching the presentation to an audience
• Colour issues within a presentation
• Using a storyboard and time-line

Level 3 Course Outline:

CUSTOMISING POWERPOINT OPTIONS
• Displaying the PowerPoint Options
• Getting help about Word Options

POPULAR OPTIONS
• Show the Mini Toolbar on selection
• Enabling Live Preview
• Showing the Developer tab on Ribbon
• Always use ClearType
• Colour Scheme
• Customising the ScreenTip Style
• Personalising your copy of Microsoft Office
• Language Settings

PROOFING OPTIONS
• AutoCorrect options
• Replace With
• Exceptions
• Setting Microsoft Office spelling options
• Setting PowerPoint specific spelling options

SAVE OPTIONS
• Setting the default file format for saving presentation
• Setting the AutoRecovery interval
• Setting the default file location

ADVANCED OPTIONS
• Setting the number of undo levels
• Setting the number of recently used documents displayed
• Setting the opening view
• Background printing

CUSTOMIZE OPTIONS
• Adding a command to the Quick Access Toolbar
• Removing a command from the Quick Access toolbar
• Easy way of modifying the Quick Access toolbar

ADD-INS OPTIONS
• What are Add-Ins?

TRUST CENTER OPTIONS
• Trust Center Settings
• Setting trusted locations
• Setting trusted locations

RESOURCES OPTIONS
• Updates
• Microsoft Office Diagnostics
• Contact Microsoft
• Microsoft Office Activation
• Microsoft Office Online
• About Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

PREPARING A PRESENTATION FOR DISTRIBUTION

PROPERTIES
• Viewing properties within a Presentation
• Editing properties

DOCUMENT INSPECTOR
• What is the Document Inspector?
• Using the Document Inspector

ENCRYPTION
• Encrypting a presentation
• Opening an encrypted presentation
• Removing encryption from your presentation

DIGITAL SIGNATURES
• What is a digital signature?
• Creating a digital signature
• Viewing a digital signature
• Digital signature gives protection from changes

FINAL VERSIONS OF A PRESENTATION
• Marking a presentation as the final version

COMPATIBILITY CHECKER
• Checking compatibility with earlier versions of PowerPoint

PUBLISHING PRESENTATIONS
• Creating Microsoft Word formatted handouts
• Packaging a presentation for a CD
• Running a presentation packaged for a CD

USING THE POWERPOINT VIEWER
• What is the PowerPoint Viewer?
• Downloading the PowerPoint Viewer

PUBLISHING TO THE WEB
• Saving a presentation in HTML format
• Publishing a presentation to the web
• Changing the web page title
• Setting Web options
• Customising colours
• Setting browser compatibility options
• Setting the screen resolution

MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES

WORDART
• Inserting a WordArt object
• Modifying the WordArt Text Fill
• Modifying the Text Outline
• Applying Text Effects

SYMBOLS
• Inserting a symbol

COMMENTS
• Adding comments
• Navigating between comments
• Editing comments

• Deleting comments
• Hiding comments

NARRATIONS
• Using a microphone
• Setting microphone levels for your narration
• Recording narrations
• Turing off narrations
• Deleting narrations
• Modifying narration quality

POWERPOINT DESKTOP SHORTCUT
• Creating a PowerPoint Desktop shortcut

HYPERLINKS
• Inserting hyperlinks
• Using Hyperlinks
• Adding a ‘Home’ link
• Inserting a hyperlink pointing to a web site
• Removing hyperlinks