Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint

About the Course

Designed for
Aimed at users who wish to know the advanced features of Microsoft PowerPoint. This course provides candidates with practical experience of the topics listed in the course outline. On completion, candidates should have an excellent knowledge of the advanced features.

Teaching Approach
The teaching approach contains a mix of lectures, practical and one-to-one work and varies according to the people attending. For the most part, candidates are able to work at a pace which best suits them, and emphasis is placed upon quality of learning, rather than quantity.

Requirements
Those attending should have an above average understanding of Microsoft PowerPoint to an intermediate level, be competent Windows users and be familiar with the basics of file and disk management.

Course Material
A large part of each course is spent with a set of specially prepared exercises and projects so that those attending gain firm foundations through their own practical experience. Professionally presented course notes are provided and these may be retained for reference afterwards.

Duration
This training program is one day in duration.

Course Outline

Diagrams

  • Organisation Charts
  • Cycle, Pyramid, and Flowchart diagrams

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 SmartA

Linking and Embedding

  • Action Buttons
  • Linking and Updating Objects
  • Breaking a Link
  • Inserting a Link to a Graphics File
  • Embedding Data Into a slide
  • Creating and Editing Hyperlinks

Merging, Comparing & Exporting

  • Merging Presentations
  • Comparing Presentations
  • Saving a Slide as a graphics File

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
  • Controlling a Slide Show

Sharing Presentations

  • Marking As Final
  • Permissions – Encrypting With a Password
  • Converting a Presentation to a Video
  • Saving As a PDF Format

Presentation Design & Compatibility

  • Planning Your Presentation
  • The Document Inspector
  • The Compatibility Checker