PowerPoint Advanced - Adding the Finishing Touches

PowerPoint Advanced – Adding the Finishing Touches

Duration 1 day

Overview

This course will extend your knowledge and skills in PowerPoint and enable you to create and deliver more complex presentations and to design to a company/organisation style or standard.

Recommended for

Staff with experience of producing presentations who want to produce customised presentations.

What do you need to know already?

We will assume that you have used PowerPoint before, perhaps quite extensively and that you are familiar with:

• Creating and printing presentations using text, bulleted lists, pictures and graphics
• Applying existing design templates
• Creating speaker notes to accompany slides
• Adding transition effects and animation schemes to a presentation

Objectives

At the end of the training, you will be able to successfully:

• Add advanced graphical features such as WordArt, Charts, Organisation charts and
  other diagrams and video and sound clips.
• Integrate PowerPoint with other applications in a number of ways including Object Linking
  and Embedding (OLE); Exporting and Hyperlinking
• Add Custom Animation effects to enhance slides including the use of timings
• Create and apply a range of custom design features including a company design template
• Apply advanced presentation techniques including re-ordering slides; creating custom shows;
  manual branching and action buttons

Modules covered in this course

Advanced Graphics

Moving on from the basics, we look here at working with tables, charts, SmartArt, Audio and Video

Interfacing with Other Applications

PowerPoint allows you to interface directly with other applications within the Microsoft Office suite. Here we examine the differences between object linking and embedding and focus on how to do this using Word and Excel.

We look at different file types and at Sharing and examine all the options included in hyperlinking.