Course Duration

PowerPoint Foundation is a one-day course. The course starts at 9:00 and finishes at 17:00, with one hour for lunch.

Course Venue

The course can be provided on-site if you have four or more participants. Our public courses are generally held at our training facility located at Westpark Business Campus, Shannon.

Navigating PowerPoint 2010

• User interface overview Ribbons, Tri Pane View (Normal)
• File Tab and usage
• Navigation Pane
• The PowerPoint views and how to access them
• Using Help

PowerPoint 2010 Views

• The Normal (Tripane) View
• The Slide Sorter View
• The Notes Pages View
• The Reading view
• The Slide Show View
• The View in Black and White
• Viewing the Slide Miniature
• Accessing Print Preview
• How to access Outline View

Creating a New Presentation with PowerPoint 2010

• Creating A New Presentation and Saving
• Create a presentation from inbuilt templates
• Placeholders
• Adding New Slides – entering & editing Text (slide view)
• Understanding Slide Layouts and changing / reapplying a layout
• Understanding the text levels
• Entering bulleted text
• Adding Freeform Text (text Boxes)
• Creating Blank Slides

Formatting Text

• Text Selection
• Formatting Text
• Formatting Backgrounds (Slide and Placeholder)
• Formatting Numbered and Bulleted Lists
• Format Painter
• Entering text in Outline
• Changing text levels
• Shortcut keys for navigating in outline

Drawing Tools

• The Insert Ribbon
• The design & format ribbons
• Drawing basic shapes freehand
• Creating regular shapes
• Formatting Shapes including 3D, Shadows and Fill Effects
• Enter and format Smart Art
• Set Shape Options
• Connect shapes
• Move and Copy Drawn Objects
• Work with Guides and Visible Grid
• Align & Distribute Objects
• Flip and Rotate Objects
• Order and Group Objects (layering)
• Enter and format text within a shape
• Inserting WordArt

Graphics and Clipart

• Insert Clip Art
• Moving and Resizing
• Format Ribbon and Clip Art
• Grouping and Ungrouping Clip Art

Tables and Charts

• Create and use a table
• Add text
• Insert columns and rows
• Format a Table
• Create a chart
• Edit the Chart Type
• Edit the Chart Options
• Format a chart
• Create an organisation Chart (Smart Art)
• Create an organisation Chart (Shapes)
• Edit and Format an Organisation Chart

Slide Masters and Templates

• View the Slide Master
• Add a company logo to every slide
• Format the background
• Colour Schemes
• Format the Title Area and Object Area
• Change Headers & Footers
• Using Multiple Slide Masters
• Preserving a Slide Master
• Viewing the Title Master
• Editing the Title Master
• View the layout masters
• Create your own layout
• Remove layouts from master
• Apply a Design Template to a slide or master
• Slide Design Task Pane
• Creating your own Design Template (using a Master)
• Apply your own design template
• Change settings of the Standard Master design

Transitions and Animation

• Transition Effects
• Animation Schemes
• Preview Animations
• Custom Animation
• Using Animation to Build Bullet Points
• Animate a Chart
• Animate smart art
• Animate a shape
• Animation Paths
• Animating multiple objects simultaneously
• Animation Timeline
• Reorder animations
• Animation settings

Slide Shows

• Rehearsing the timing of a Presentation
• Right Click options to use during slide shows
• Slide Navigation
• Hiding / Unhiding Slides
• Run / Exit slideshows

Saving presentations

• Saving as a presentation
• Saving as a slideshow
• Saving as a video
• Publish to web / SharePoint
• Save to other formats

Printing Presentations

• Print Preview
• Printing Slides
• Printing Hand-outs
• Printing Notes Pages
• Printing Outline View