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Microsoft PowerPoint - An Introduction

This one-day course covers creating slide shows for speaker-led presentations. See how to add animations and slide transitions and how to control the flow of the presentation.

Course Outline

  • PowerPoint screen layout
  • The task pane
  • Working with outline
  • Using normal view
  • Changing the scale of the view
  • Creating a new slide show
  • Using slide layouts
  • Bulleted lists
  • Working with graphic objects
  • Adding lines, colours & shadows
  • Adding clip-art to the presentation
  • Creating & editing a chart
  • Using Word Art
  • Adding transitions and animation

Who would benefit from the course?

Users who want to learn to create business-class PowerPoint slide shows.

Pre-requisites

No pre-requisites are required; although a basic understanding of Windows and familiarity with using a mouse would be an advantage.