Recommended Prerequisite: Computer Basic, Word Basic
Our staff will show you how to create a professional presentation from start to finish in this course. We will use different views to generate our presentation. Open slide masters, use design templates, create headers and footers, placeholders, and use font formatting and auto numbering. We will add clip art and draw shapes in our presentation, and discuss how to change colors of shapes and assemble your shapes. Build a table in a slide, and learn to add information and format the text in the table. We will show you how to delete slides and rearrange slides in slide sorter view. We will view our slide show, check and replace text, preview transitions, print handouts for our audience, and apply options during the slide show. We will work with adjusting the background, text styles for templates, designs for title masters, and importing data from Word. We will add emphasis to our presentation by using WordArt. Learn to add clip art categories, add and move images in the clip gallery. We will arrange clip art on our slides, modify graphics, insert slides, and utilize drawing tools. We will apply animation effects to the opening screen, to text, and to graphics. We will work with speaker notes, audience handouts, and printing transparencies. We will also prepare presentations from existing slides, change case, replace fonts, and add text to drawings. Prepare your presentation for the web by e-mailing presentations, adding hyperlinks, and publishing your presentation to the web. We will show you how to combine presentations, create toolbars, apply templates, customize backgrounds, work with tab and paragraph indents, and build color schemes. Create charts, graphs, organization charts, and PowerPoint tables. We will show you how to add links between slides, and action buttons. Learn to import Word tables, Excel charts, and multimedia elements. We will also export outlines to Word and save slides as graphics. To prepare for our slide show, we will set automatic slide timings, hide slides, embed fonts, and generate notes. We will discuss different ways to deliver your presentation, including exporting to 35mm slides, formatting for the web, and Pack and Go.