Course Overview
Using the different tools available to create complex presentations.
Prerequisites
PowerPoint beginner
Syllabus
Mastering charts
- Importing existing data
- Resizing your charts
- Exploring display settings
- Mastering two-dimensional charts
- Creating a custom chart type
- Making changes to the default chart
Organizational charts and connector lines
- Creating a drawing using AutoShapes
- Merging common shapes
- Adding 3D effects to an object
- Adding shadow effects to an object
- Changing the shape of objects
- Aligning and distributing objects evenly on a slide
- Connecting shapes using connector lines
Office integration
- Inserting objects that were created using other applications
- Searching and inserting slides
- Creating a link to a PowerPoint presentation
- Inserting an outline onto a slide
Adding finishing touches to your presentation
- Working with multiple Slide Masters
- Working with Colour Sets
- Making changes to the Handout and Notes masters
- Restoring placeholders that are displayed on headers and footers
- Creating slideshow templates
Navigating through a presentation
- Hiding and showing a slide
- Creating hyperlinks
- Inserting a custom slideshow
- Inserting a Zoom link
Multimedia
- Adding pictures from the Internet
- Adding sound effects
- Adding video clips
- Inserting a 3D model
- Inserting icons
- Customizing animations
- Setting time duration to create a self-running presentation
Appendices
- Replacing fonts
- Adding comments
- The Notes pane
- Saving a PowerPoint presentation as a slideshow
- Valuable tips for your presentation
- Running PowerPoint on touchscreen devices (Windows 8)
- Saving and sharing your Office files in the Cloud (SkyDrive)
- Co-authoring
- The enhanced Presenter View
- Starting an online meeting from PowerPoint (Lync)
- Screen registration
- Managing multiple versions
- Morph transitions
- Text highlighter
- Using the zoom