A TOUR OF POWERPOINT

• Starting PowerPoint
• The PowerPoint screen
• Using the Ribbon
• Backstage view
• Launching dialog boxes
• Adding commands to the QAT

WORKING WITH PRESENTATIONS

• Switching between presentations
• Understanding PowerPoint views
• Navigating a presentation
• Using the Zoom tool

CREATING A PRESENTATION

• Planning a presentation
• Tips for effective presentation design
• Creating a blank presentation
• Creating a presentation based on a template
• Creating a presentation based on a theme
• Typing text into the outline pane
• Saving a presentation
• Inserting slides and text
• Previewing a slide show

SLIDE LAYOUTS

• Understanding slide layouts
• Inserting a title slide
• Inserting a title and content slide
• Inserting a section header slide
• Inserting a table
• Inserting a chart
• Applying a different layout to a slide

WORKING WITH TEXT

• Typing text onto a slide
• Editing text
• Moving and resizing placeholders
• Font formatting
• Paragraph formatting
• Converting text to SmartArt
• WordArt

SMARTART

• Inserting a SmartArt graphic
• Inserting text
• Adding shapes
• Adding an Assistant
• Changing the SmartArt layout
• Applying colour schemes
• Deleting SmartArt shapes

SLIDE SHOW NAVIGATION

• Using Slide Sorter view
• Reusing slides
• Adding sections
• Adding notes to slides
• Creating an internal hyperlink
• Creating a hyperlink to another presentation
• Creating a hyperlink to another application
• Presenting a slide show

PIVOT CHARTS

• Creating a PivotChart shell
• Dragging fields to the PivotChart shell
• Changing the PivotChart type
• Using the PivotChart filter field buttons

PRINTING

• Previewing slides
• Printing handouts
• Printing notes pages
• Printing the outline