Foundation Level Course Outline
Using PowerPoint 2010
• Navigating between Slides
• Zoom Tool
• PowerPoint Views
• Help
• Saving a Presentation
• Closing a Presentation
• Closing PowerPoint
• Using Multiple Presentations
Creating a Presentation
• Creating a New Presentation
• Inserting a New Slide
• Undo and Redo
Manipulating Slides
• Inserting Slides
• Modifying the Slide Layout
• Changing the Background Colour
Themes
• Applying a Theme to a Presentation
• Modifying the Theme Colours
• Modifying the Theme Fonts
Text Boxes (Placeholders)
• Editing Text Boxes (Placeholders)
• Resizing a Text Box (Placeholder)
• Moving a Text Box (Placeholder)
Manipulating Text
• Selecting Text
• Copying & Moving Text
• Deleting Text
• Using Find & Replace
Font Formatting
• Font Type
• Font Size
• Font Size
• Bold, Italic or Underline
• Strikethrough
• Shadow Effects
• Character Spacing
• Changing Case
• Font Colour
• Clearing All Text Formatting
Paragraph Formatting
• Text Alignment
• Columns
• Modifying Bullet Point Formatting
• Changing the List Level
• Indenting Bulleted Text
• Line Spacing
• Paragraph Spacing
• Outline View
• Presenter Notes
• Text Direction
• AutoFit
• Format Painter
Tables
• Table Selection Techniques
• Creating a Table
• Applying a Style to a Table
• Cell Background Shading
• Table Effects
• Adding 'Quick Styles' to Selected Text
• Applying Borders to Cells
• Deleting Rows or Columns
• Inserting Rows or Columns
• Modifying Column Width and Row Height
• Distributing Rows and Columns
Graphics
• Manipulating Illustration
• Pictures
• Clip Art
• Shapes
• Inserting Text Into a Shape
• Inserting Perfect Circles / Squares
• Inserting a Line
• Inserting a Free Drawn Line
• Inserting an Arrow
• Inserting a Text Box
• Inserting SmartArt
Manipulating Graphics
• Shape Background Fill Colour Style
• Shape Line Weight and Style
• Shape Line Colour
• Shadow effects
• Modifying Arrow Lines
• Rotating or Flipping
• Layering Illustrations to the Front or Back
• Aligning Graphics
• Grouping and Ungrouping Objects
Charts
• Inserting Charts
• Changing the Chart Type
• Changing the Background Colour In the Chart
• Changing the Column, Bar, Line or Pie Slice Colours In the Chart
• Chart Title Manipulation
• Adding Data Labels to a Chart
Organisation Charts
• Creating an Organisation Chart
• Adding Labels to an Organisation Chart
• Adding a Co-Worker
• Adding a Subordinates
• Adding a Manager
• Changing the Hierarchical Structure
Manipulating Slides
• Copying & Moving Slides
• Deleting Slides
Slide Masters
• Inserting a Picture into a Master Slide
• Removing a Graphic from a Master Slide
• Creating a Footer
• Automatic Slide Numbering
• Inserting Dates Into the Footer
Slide Shows
• Running a Slide Show
• Transition Effects
• Animation Effects
• Hiding Slides
Printing and Proofing
• Spell-Checking
• Portrait or Landscape Orientation
• Selecting Your Output Format
• Printing Options
• Selecting a Different Printer
• Printing Selected Slides
• Number of Slides Per Page to Be Printed
Intermediate Level Course Outline:
Customising and Compatibility Issues
• Modifying PowerPoint Options
• Compatibility Issues When Saving a Presentation
• Saving a Presentation As a Template
• Customised Templates
PowerPoint Sections
• Creating & Renaming Sections
• Collapsing & Expanding Sections
• Reordering Sections
• Removing Sections
Slide Masters
• Inserting Slide Masters
• Editing a Customised Slide Master
• Customised Slide Masters
Themes
• Applying Themes
• Modifying a Themes
• Setting the Default Theme
• Deleting a Theme
• Modifying a Template
Formatting Pictures & Images
• Removing a Picture Background
• Colouring Pictures
• Artistic Effects
• Picture Styles
• Picture Brightness and Contrast
• Compressing Pictures
• Resetting a Picture
• SmartArt & Pictures
Manipulating Graphics
• Ruler and Gridlines
• Snapping to the Grid and Grid Spacing
• Positioning a Graphic Relative to the Top-Left Corner of a Slide
• Distributing Graphics on a slide
• Cropping a Graphic
• Re-Scaling Pictures
• Background Graphics
Formatting AutoShapes
• AutoShape Background Fill Effects
• AutoShape Transparency Effects
• AutoShape Shape Effects
• AutoShapes Format Painter
• AutoShape Defaults
Advanced Level Course Outline:
Diagrams
• Organisation Chart
• Cycle Diagram
• Pyramid Diagram
• Flowchart
Charts
• Chart Title, Legend, Labels & Axes Labels
• Changing Chart Type
• Chart Gap and Overlaps
• Using Images In Chart Columns / Rows
• Axis Scales
Video and Audio
• Video Brightness and Contrast
• Re-Colouring a Video
• Adding a Poster Frame Image to a Video
• Resetting a Video
• Applying a Video Style
• Playing a Video In a Shape
• Video Special Effects
• Trimming Video
• Video Looping
• Using Audio
Animation
• Animation Effects
• Animation Triggers
• Animation Painter
• Custom Animation Effects
• Custom Animation Sequence
• Animating Chart Columns By Series
• Animating, or Not Animating, the Chart Grid and Legend
• Animating SmartArt
Linking and Embedding
• Action Buttons
• Linking and Updating Objects
• Breaking a Link
• Inserting a Link to a Graphics File
• Embedding Data Into a slide
• Editing or Deleting Embedded Data
Hyperlinks
• Creating and Editing Hyperlinks
Merging, Comparing & Exporting
• Merging all the slides from one Presentation Into another
Presentation
• Comparing Presentations
• Saving a Slide as a graphics File
• Using the Screen Shot Feature
Slide Shows
• Custom Slide Shows
• Editing a Custom Slide Show
• Slide Show Transitions and Timings
• Slide Show Looping
• Setting a Slide Show to use Timings
• Enabling or Disabling Slide Show Animations
• Controlling a Slide Show
Sharing Presentations
• Marking As Final
• Permissions – Encrypting With a Password
• Converting a Presentation to a Video
• Packing For a CD
• Saving As a PDF Format
Presentation Design & Compatibility
• Planning Your Presentation
• The Accessibility Checker
• The Document Inspector
• The Compatibility Checker