Course Content:

Basic Review:
Creating a Presentation, Formatting a Presentation, Working with Outline View, Working with Slide Sorter View


Drawing Skills:
The Drawing Toolbar, Drawing basic shapes freehand, Creating regular shapes
Formatting Shapes including 3D, Shadows and Fill Effects, Creating Auto Shapes, Copying and Moving
Working with Guides, Aligning & Distributing Objects
Flipping and Rotating, Ordering Objects
Grouping Objects, Freeform drawing tool and Edit Points, Inserting and formatting text within a shape
Inserting WordArt , Using connectors to create flow diagrams

Multi-media, Linked and Embedded Objects:
Inserting a movie file, Inserting sound
Linking Data from Word and Excel
Embedding part of an object, Embedding Data form Word and Excel
Slide Show Preparation
Rehearsing the timing of a Presentation, Controls to use during slide shows, Slide Navigator Hiding Slides, Adding Hyperlinks to a presentation Creating Action Buttons

Speaker Notes and Handouts:
The Notes Page View, Printing Notes
Sending Slides to Word to Create Handouts

Custom Shows:
Creating a custom show, Options for custom shows
Creating an Agenda slide

Presenting with PowerPoint:
Pack and Go, PowerPoint Viewer, Publishing to the Web