Microsoft PowerPoint Course

Microsoft PowerPoint Course

This is one of the most comprehensive courses available to take you from beginner to expert level with the exciting PowerPoint package.

In approximately 30 hours of study at either our London (Notting Hill or High Holborn) & central Manchester training centres, you'll learn how to create beautiful, compelling presentations using Microsoft's latest release of this ubiquitous programme.

The purpose of this extremely practical PowerPoint training programme and indeed all of our MS Office courses, is to equip you with all the skills you'll need to satisfy the most critical audience or demanding boss.

Find out more about Pitman Training and how this Microsoft PowerPoint  Course in London (High Holborn or Notting Hill) & Manchester can help you here.

There are no admission requirements for this course. Everyone is welcome.

This Microsoft PowerPoint Course is essential for anyone who wants to learn about PowerPoint - and move from beginner to expert level, and for everyone who wants to create effective presentations with PowerPoint.

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This Microsoft PowerPoint Course is made up of 12 core lessons:

Lesson One:
Starting the PowerPoint 2007 program, the PowerPoint
interface, opening and closing a presentation, running a presentation as a slide
show, different PowerPoint views, navigating between slides, adding a slide,
saving a presentation, creating a new presentation, entering and editing text,
indenting bulleted items, changing the bullet style, using zoom controls,
printing slides, repeating the last action, exiting PowerPoint

Lesson Two:
Planning and designing a presentation, using
AutoFit options, deleting a slide, selecting and formatting text, clear
formatting, changing case, text alignment, line and paragraph spacing, using
Format Painter. using Undo, resizing and moving a placeholder, identifying,
applying and resetting slide layouts, using background styles, saving a
presentation with a new

Lesson Three:
Applying a theme,
selecting colour and font schemes, saving a custom theme, selecting slides in
Slide Sorter view, moving, copying and deleting slides. duplicating slides,
re-using slides from another presentation, Find and Replace, Spell Check, adding
and removing AutoCorrect items, moving and copying slide content, copying slides
from one presentation to another. deleting a custom theme

Lesson Four:
Selecting and rearranging slides in the outline tab, expanding
and collapsing the slide outline, promoting and demoting outline text, inserting
slides from a Word outline, creating, editing and formatting notes, adding
headers and footers to notes and handouts, using the Notes Master, applying a
gradient fill, using the Handout Master, different print options, selecting Page
Setup options for slides

Lesson Five:
Working in Slide
Master view, formatting the Slide Master, adding, background styles in the Slide
Master, inserting a graphic onto the Slide Master, hiding/displaying background
graphics, formatting the layout masters, enabling the footer, date and slide
number, applying a theme to a Slide Master, creating a custom layout in Slide
Master view, running a slide show from the current slide, hiding and unhiding
slides, using the Slide Show Toolbar, creating and running a custom slide show,
saving a presentation as a template. creating a new presentation from a template

Lesson Six:
Drawing and resizing shapes, moving, copying
and rotating shapes, drawing and resizing a perfect circle square, specifying
shape size and position, selecting multiple objects, grouping and ungrouping
objects, aligning objects, viewing gridlines and align objects, applying Quick
Styles, changing shape fill, outline and effects, using picture and texture
fills, inserting and formatting Clip Art, inserting pictures, cropping pictures
using the crop tool, adding a picture to the Slide Master, creating and
formatting Word Art

Lesson Seven:
Inserting a chart and entering spreadsheet data,
chart type, layout and style, selecting and formatting chart elements, adding
and removing chart elements, repositioning and resizing charts, switching rows
and columns, changing gridline and axis settings, creating a combination chart,
creating and formatting a table, adjusting table dimensions, Inserting and
deleting rows and columns, merging table cells, applying a table background,
creating tabbed columns using default tabs, removing indent settings

Lesson Eight:
Creating flowchart shapes, selecting shapes
using the Selection and Visibility pane, sizing and positioning flowchart
shapes, connecting flowchart shapes/changing the connector type, adding,
deleting and changing flowchart shapes, creating a SmartArt graphic, adding text
and shapes to SmartArt diagrams, moving, resizing and formatting a SmartArt
diagram, inserting and formatting a text box, moving and sizing a text box,
hanging text box margins, applying columns to a text box, changing text box
orientation

Lesson Nine:
Inserting comments, viewing and
editing comments, deleting and hiding comments, using Document Inspector,
viewing and adding Document Properties, marking a document as Final, setting and
removing a password, compressing pictures, saving a presentation in PowerPoint
97-2003 format, using the Compatibility Checker, saving a presentation as a
show, saving a presentation as a web page, using package a presentation for CD,
saving a slide as an image, adding a digital signature

Lesson Ten:
Adding and removing transition effects, modifying transition
effects, applying transition effects to selected slides, adding and removing
transition sounds, applying preset animation effects, managing the custom
animation pane, adding, changing and removing custom animation, modifying
animation effects, selecting entrance, emphasis and exit effects, selecting and
modifying motion paths, using start settings, changing the order of animation
effects, adding sound to animation effects

Lesson Eleven:
Inserting hyperlinks, editing hyperlinks,
removing a digital signature, copying and pasting external content, embedding
data using paste special, inserting and editing an embedded object, inserting
and editing a linked object, updating links in a presentation, breaking a link,
creating Action Buttons, formatting and changing an action setting

Lesson Twelve:
Considering when PowerPoint presentations
are used, setting a slide timing for selected slides, rehearsing slide timings,
changing timings, selecting show types, navigation methods for different show
types, setting slides to advance manually or with timings, setting the slide
show to loop continuously, showing slides with or without animation, inserting a
movie from a file or from a movie clip, setting movie options and formats,
inserting a sound from a file or from a sound clip, changing animation effects
for a sound or a movie, setting up a soundtrack to play across slides

Find out how this is one of the most comprehensive courses in Britain. It's a lot to learn, but don't worry, our course advisors will be with you every step of the way.

At the end of the course, when you pass your exam, you'll earn a nationally recognised Pitman Training certificate to prove how skilled you are.

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This Microsoft PowerPoint Course costs just £414.36 (inc VAT).

(NB: Government funding is not available for this course and attendance is required in London's Notting Hill or High Holborn & Manchester to complete the course).

You can start this course at any time (no waiting for term to start) and come in to study at times to suit you during our long opening hours which include evenings and Saturdays.

This course leads to a nationally recognised Pitman Training qualification.