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Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 - Introduction

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Getting To Know PowerPoint

  • Start PowerPoint in Windows 8
  • Understand the start screen
  • Create a new blank presentation
  • The PowerPoint screen
  • How Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 works
  • Use the ribbon
  • Use ribbon KeyTips
  • Show and collapse the ribbons
  • Understand the backstage view
  • Access backstage view
  • Use shortcut menus
  • Understand dialog boxes
  • Launch dialog boxes
  • Understand the Quick Access Toolbar
  • Add commands to the QAT
  • Understand the status bar
  • Customise the status bar
  • Exit safely from PowerPoint

Your First Presentation

  • Create presentations in PowerPoint
  • Create a presentation
  • Apply theme variants
  • The save as place
  • The save as dialog box
  • Type text into a slide
  • Insert new slides
  • Type text using the outline pane
  • Apply slide transitions
  • Save a presentation
  • Preview a slide show
  • Close a presentation

Working With Presentations

  • The open place
  • The open dialog box
  • Open a presentation
  • Open multiple presentations
  • Switch between presentations
  • Understand PowerPoint views
  • Change presentation views
  • Navigate a presentation
  • Use the zoom tool
  • Open a recent presentation

Working With Text

  • Edit text
  • Check spelling and grammar
  • Understand font formatting
  • Apply font formatting
  • Apply paragraph formatting
  • Change bullet and number styles
  • Move and resize placeholders
  • Apply WordArt to text
  • Convert text to SmartArt

Slide Layouts

  • Understand slide layouts
  • Insert a title slide
  • Insert a title and content slide
  • Insert a section header slide
  • Insert a table
  • Insert a picture with caption slide
  • Insert a chart
  • Change the slide layout

SmartArt

  • Understand SmartArt
  • Insert a SmartArt graphic
  • Insert text into SmartArt
  • Add shapes below
  • Add shapes above
  • Add shapes before and after
  • Add an assistant
  • Promote and demoting shapes
  • Switch SmartArt right to left
  • Resize SmartArt
  • Change the SmartArt layout
  • Apply a colour scheme
  • Apply a SmartArt style
  • Delete SmartArt shapes

Shapes

  • Draw shapes
  • Resize shapes
  • Edit shapes
  • Position shapes
  • Arrange shapes
  • Merge shapes
  • Format shapes
  • Use the eyedropper
  • Copy shapes
  • Align shapes using the ribbon
  • Align objects using the smart guides
  • Insert and formatting text
  • Connect shapes
  • Group shapes
  • Rotate shapes

Preparing For Presentations

  • Use slide sorter view
  • Reuse slides
  • Add sections
  • Add notes to your slides
  • Slide numbers
  • About hyperlinks
  • Create an internal hyperlink
  • Create a hyperlink to another presentation
  • Create a hyperlink to another application
  • Keyboard shortcuts for navigating slide shows
  • Use resume reading
  • Present a slide show

Printing Your Presentation

  • Understand printing
  • Preview slides
  • Print slides
  • Print handouts
  • Print notes pages
  • Print the outline

Getting Help

  • Understand how help works
  • Access the help window
  • Navigate the help window
  • Use the office website
  • Google search help
  • Print a help topic

Brilliant Presentations

  • Plan a presentation
  • Make it readable
  • The four pillars of great design
  • Perfect presentation layouts
  • Present polished presentations
  • Present methods and hardware

Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 - Advanced

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Themes

  • Understand themes
  • Apply a theme
  • Change the theme colours
  • Create custom theme colours
  • Change the theme fonts
  • Change the slide background
  • Save a customised theme
  • Use a customised theme
  • Delete a customised theme

Slide Masters

  • Understand slide masters
  • View the slide master
  • Change the master font
  • Modify bullets
  • Insert an image
  • Apply slide transitions to the slide master
  • Insert slide numbers
  • Create custom slide layouts
  • Modify slide layouts

Templates

  • Understand templates
  • Set a custom templates location
  • Use an existing template
  • Create a template from a template
  • Save a custom template
  • Create a template from a theme
  • Modify a template
  • Use a custom template

Tables

  • Insert a table using the ribbon
  • Insert rows and columns
  • Apply a table style
  • Merge and split cells
  • Adjust column widths
  • Adjust row heights
  • Resize and position a table
  • Align table data
  • Apply borders
  • Apply shade

Charts

  • Understand charts
  • Insert a chart using the ribbon
  • Change the chart type
  • Chart elements
  • Use quick layouts
  • Understand chart buttons
  • Change the layout of chart elements
  • Apply a chart style
  • Understand the chart format panes
  • Format chart elements
  • Edit a data series
  • Hide data series
  • Work with pie charts

Images

  • Understand clip art and pictures
  • Insert a picture from file
  • Insert an online picture
  • Resize an image
  • Position an image
  • Insert clip art
  • Modify graphics
  • Rotate and flip clip art
  • Insert a screenshot
  • Insert a screen clip
  • Create a photo album

Enhancing Images

  • Understand picture enhancements
  • The format picture pane
  • Remove an image background
  • Apply colour corrections
  • Recolour an image
  • Apply a picture style
  • Apply picture effects
  • Apply artistic effects
  • Crop an image

Media Action Buttons

  • Understand media in PowerPoint
  • Insert an online video
  • Insert an online audio clip
  • Format media clips
  • Edit audio clips
  • Optimise and compress media
  • Understand action buttons
  • Insert action buttons

Animations and Transitions

  • Understand animations and transitions
  • Animate text
  • Animate objects
  • Apply multiple effects
  • Apply motion paths
  • The animation pane
  • Set the timing
  • Animate SmartArt graphics
  • Use slide transitions

Setting Up the Show

  • About self-run presentations
  • Record a slide show
  • Set up a self-run presentation
  • Rehearse timings
  • Set up a speaker-led show
  • Create a custom show
  • Understand presenter view
  • Use presenter view

Saving and Sharing Presentations

  • Package presentations for CD
  • Save a presentation as a PDF document
  • Save a presentation as a video
  • Send a presentation via email
  • Present a slide show online
  • Save to a storage device