Lesson One
Including:
Finding your way around backstage view, opening,
closing and saving a presentation, running the
presentation as a slide show, accessing
different PowerPoint views and using zoom
controls, navigating between slides, creating a
presentation, adding a new slide to a
presentation, entering and editing text, working
with bulleted text, the Notes pane, printing the
slides
Lesson Two
Including:
Understanding the principles of presentation
planning and design, using AutoFit options,
deleting a slide, selecting and formatting slide
text, using the Undo button, resizing and moving
a placeholder, identifying, applying and
resetting slide layouts, selecting a built-in
background style and applying a fill colour,
saving a presentation with a new filename
Lesson Three
Including:
Applying a theme and selecting colour and font
schemes, saving a custom theme, selecting
slides, moving, copying and deleting slides,
editing slide text, selecting multiple slides,
re-using slides from another presentation, the
find and replace feature, the spelling check
facility, using autocorrect, moving and copying
content in a slide and from one slide to
another, copying slides from one presentation to
another, using sections to organise and manage
your presentation, deleting a custom theme
Lesson Four
Including:
Selecting and rearranging slides in the outline
tab, expanding and collapsing the slide outline,
promoting and demoting outline text, inserting
slides from a Word outline, adding a new title
slide and section, background styles, creating,
editing and formatting notes, adding headers and
footers to notes and handouts, using the notes
master, printing notes, generating handouts,
using the handout master, printing the slide
outline, selecting page setup options for slides
Lesson Five
Including:
Slide Master View, adding a graphic to the slide
master view, formatting the Slide Master,
formatting the layout masters, including the
title slide layout master, displaying footer
text, date, and slide numbers, creating a custom
layout in slide master view, applying a theme to
selected slides, using multiple slide masters,
hiding and unhiding slides, using the slide show
toolbar, creating and running a custom slide
show, saving a presentation as a template,
creating a new presentation from a template
Lesson Six
Including:
Drawing, resizing, moving, copying and rotating
shapes, inserting text into a shape, specifying
size and position of a shape, and cropping an
object, selecting multiple objects, grouping,
ungrouping and aligning objects, applying Quick
Styles, changing shape fill, shape outline and
shape effects, using picture and texture fills
and custom colours, changing the theme of a
presentation, inserting and formatting Clip Art
images, creating, formatting and enhancing
WordArt, working with pictures and callouts
Lesson Seven
Including:
Inserting a chart and entering data, choosing
the chart type, layout and style, adding,
formatting and removing chart elements,
repositioning and resizing the chart, switching
rows and columns, changing gridline and axis
settings, creating a combination chart,
inserting a table, adjusting table dimensions,
inserting and deleting table rows and columns,
merging table cells, applying a table
background, creating and formatting a table,
creating tabbed columns, removing indent
settings
Lesson Eight
Including:
Creating flowchart shapes, selecting, sizing and
positioning flowchart shapes, connecting
flowchart shapes/changing the connector type,
adding, deleting and changing flowchart shapes,
creating a SmartArt graphic, adding text and
shapes to SmartArt diagrams, converting text to
a SmartArt diagram, changing the type and layout
of a SmartArt diagram, inserting and formatting
a text box, moving and sizing a text box,
changing text box margins, applying columns to a
text box, changing text direction in a text box
Lesson Nine
Including:
Inserting comments, viewing and editing
comments, deleting and hiding comments; showing
and hiding markup, using the document inspector,
viewing and adding document properties, marking
a presentation as final, setting and removing a
password, compressing pictures, saving a
presentation in different formats, using
compatibility checker, packaging a presentation
for CD, saving slide(s) as an image, creating
linked handouts, adding a digital signature
Lesson Ten
Including:
Adding, modifying and removing transition
effects, using reading view, applying transition
effects to selected slides, adding and removing
transition sounds, applying animation effects,
timing animations, animating a chart, animating
SmartArt, animating text boxes, using the
Animation pane, changing the order of
animations, animating text by paragraph,
removing animation effects, motion paths,
animation painter, adding sound to animation
effects
Lesson Eleven
Including:
Enhancing pictures using artistic effects,
cropping pictures using the crop tool, using
gridlines to position an image, adding a picture
to the background, changing the order of objects
on the slide, adding a picture to the slide
master, inserting and linking a video from a
file, formatting an inserted video, inserting
and using bookmarks in video clips, shortening,
cropping and resizing a video clip, applying a
title frame to a video clip, animating the
video, linking a video file, inserting a clipart
video, inserting audio from clipart and a file
Lesson Twelve
Including:
Inserting hyperlinks between slides, using
pictures as hyperlinks, inserting hyperlinks to
another file, editing hyperlinks, removing a
digital signature, inserting hyperlinks to an
external website (URL), copying data from other
programs, embedding files from other programs,
linking objects, updating links in a
presentation, breaking a link, understanding the
difference between embedded objects and linked
objects, hyperlinks, copy and paste, embedding
and linking, creating and formatting Action
Buttons
Lesson Thirteen
Including:
Setting and changing times for selected slides,
rehearsing slide timings and working with the
rehearsal toolbar, selecting show types, turning
off animation, creating a photo album, editing a
photo album, inserting a soundtrack from a file,
setting up a soundtrack to play across slides,
compressing media files