This Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 course explains how to use Microsoft PowerPoint. Delegates will learn Microsoft PowerPoint by working on many practical exercises with help of an experienced MOS qualified instructor.
This Microsoft PowerPoint course is hands-on, instructor-led and classroom based. This training can be taken as a part-time evening course or even on the weekends. A list of all upcoming public Microsoft PowerPoint training course is given on training dragon website. Each course is restricted to a maximum of ten delegates to ensure an excellent training experience.
This course prepares you for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010, Exam 77-883: PowerPoint 2010
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Course Contents
Managing the PowerPoint Environment
Adjust views
- Adjusting views by using ribbon or status bar commands
Manipulate the PowerPoint window
- Working with multiple presentation windows simultaneously
Configure the Quick Access Toolbar
- Showing the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) below the ribbon
Configure PowerPoint file options
- Using PowerPoint, Proofing, and Save options
Creating a Slide Presentation
Construct and edit photo albums
- Adding captions to pictures, inserting text, inserting images in black and white, reordering pictures in an album, and adjusting image rotation, brightness, and contrast
Apply slide size and orientation settings
- Setting up a custom size and changing the orientation
Add and remove slides
- Inserting an outline, reusing slides from a saved presentation, reusing slides from a slide library, duplicating selected slides, deleting multiple slides simultaneously, and including non-contiguous slides in a presentation
Format slides
- Formatting sections, modifying themes, switching to a different slide layout, applying a fill colour, gradient, picture, texture, or pattern to a slide, and setting up slide footers
Enter and format text
- Using text effects, changing the indentation, alignment, line spacing, and direction of text, changing the formatting of bulleted and numbered lists, entering text in a placeholder text box, converting text to SmartArt, copying and pasting text, using Paste Special, and using Format Painter
Format text boxes
- Applying a fill colour, gradient, picture, texture, or pattern to a text box, changing the outline colour, weight, or style, changing the shape of the text box, applying effects, setting the alignment, creating columns in a text box, setting internal margins, setting the current text box formatting as the default for new text boxes, adjusting text wrapping, sizing and positioning a text box, and using AutoFit
Working with Graphical and Multimedia Elements
Manipulate graphical elements
- Arranging, positioning, and resizing graphical elements, applying effects, applying styles, applying borders, and adding hyperlinks
Manipulate images
- Applying colour adjustments, applying image corrections (sharpen, soften, brightness, contrast), adding artistic effects to an image, removing a background, cropping a picture, compressing selected pictures or all pictures, changing a picture, and resetting a picture
Modify WordArt and shapes
- Setting the formatting of the current shape as the default for future shapes, changing the fill colour or texture, changing the WordArt, converting to SmartArt
Manipulate SmartArt
- Adding and removing shapes, changing SmartArt styles, changing the SmartArt layout, reordering shapes, converting a SmartArt graphic to text, converting SmartArt to shapes, making shapes larger or smaller, and promoting or demoting bullet levels
Edit video and audio content
- Applying a style to video or audio content, adjusting, arranging, and sizing video or audio content, and adjusting playback options
Creating Charts and Tables
Construct and modify tables
- Drawing a table, inserting a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, setting table style options, adding shading, borders, and effects, changing the alignment, resizing, merging or splitting columns and rows, distributing columns and rows, arranging columns and rows
Insert and modify charts
- Selecting a chart type, entering chart data, changing the chart type, changing the chart layout, switching row and column, selecting data, editing data
Apply chart elements
- Using chart labels, axes, gridlines, and backgrounds
Manipulate chart layouts
- Selecting chart elements and formatting selections
Manipulate chart elements
- Arranging chart elements, specifying a precise position, applying effects, resizing chart elements, applying Quick Styles, applying a border, and adding hyperlinks
Applying Transitions and Animations
Apply built-in and custom animations
- Using More Entrance, More Emphasis, and More Exit effects, and using More Motion paths
Apply effect and path options
- Setting timing and start options
Apply and modify transitions between slides
- Modifying a transition effect, adding a sound to a transition, modifying transition duration, and setting up manual or automatically timed advance options
Manipulate animations
- Changing the direction of an animation, attaching a sound to an animation, using Animation Painter, reordering animations, and selecting text options
Collaborating on Presentations
Manage comments in presentations
- Inserting and editing comments, showing or hiding markup, moving to the previous or next comment, and deleting comments
Apply proofing tools
- Using Spelling and Thesaurus features, comparing and combining presentations
Preparing Presentations for Delivery
Save presentations
- Saving the presentation as a picture presentation, PDF, XPS, outline, or OpenDocument presentation, saving a slide or object as a picture file and saving a presentation as a show (.ppsx)
Share presentations
- Packaging a presentation for CD delivery, creating video, creating handouts (send to Microsoft Word), and compressing media
Print presentations