This practical course for beginners is especially designed for delegates who are interested in mastering the fundamentals needed to create and modify basic presentations using Microsoft Office's Power Point 2010.
By using PowerPoint to create and deliver your presentations, you will capture you audience's attention and communicate your idea more effectively. You will also clearly establish you authority and professionalism with a dynamic presentation style that makes full use of PowerPoint's versatile and powerful features.
Trainer: Bilal Kathrada - Durban University of Technology
Overview:
Explore PowerPoint
Working with the user interface.
Creating and saving presentations.
Compatibility with earlier versions.
Opening, moving around in, and closing presentations.
Viewing presentations on different ways.
Working with Slides
Adding and deleting slides.
Adding slides with ready-made content.
Slide Libraries.
Exporting presentations as outlines.
Dividing presentations into section.
Rearranging slides and sections.
Working with Slide content
Entering text into placeholders.
Adding text boxes.
Changing the default font for text boxes.
Editing text.
Clipboard.
Correcting and sizing text while typing.
Checking spelling and choosing the best words.
Research information.
Find and Replacing text and fonts
Format Slides
Applying themes.
Using different theme colours and fonts.
Changing the slide background.
Changing the look of placeholders.
Changing the alignment, spacing, size and look of text.
Add Simple Visual Enhancements
Insert picture and ClipArt images.
Inserting diagrams.
Graphic formats.
Converting existing bullets into a diagram.
Inserting charts.
Inserting shapes.
Connecting shapes.
Adding transitions.
Review and Deliver Presentation
Setting up a presentation for delivery.
Previewing and printing presentation.
Preparing speaker notes and hand-outs.
Enhanced hand-outs.
Finalising presentation.
Setting up presenter view.
Delivering a presentation.
Who should attend:
Beginners who want to learn to put together a Professional Microsoft PowerPoint presentation quickly and with little fuss.
Date: 30 October 2012
Time: 08:30 - 16:30
Venue: Chamber House, Royal Showgrounds, Pietermaritzburg
Cost: Members: R950 per head, Non-members: R1300 per head