Whether you are new to PowerPoint, self-taught or an experienced user looking for hints and tips, our training specialists will help you create engaging presentations with impact. Our team bring the training to you, delivering the workshops at your site, helping you focus on what’s important to you.
As well as our full day training courses, we offer 1-2-1 IT Clinics
which can be tailored to your specific needs.
Courses are also available on PowerPoint 2010 and 2013.
Microsoft PowerPoint Training Options - Day Courses
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2016: Introduction
Duration:
One day (9:30 - 16:30)
This one-day foundation course is ideal for anyone wishing to master core skills for creating presentations with impact. This workshop will show you how to:
- Create and edit text slides
- Print a presentation
- Add graphics, drawing objects or graphs
- Apply design templates
- Run an electronic slide show
Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of text editing, formatting and file handling within packages such as Excel, or Word, is a beneficial starting point for this course.
Course Content
Getting started
- Tour of the Screen
- Ribbon
- Quick Access Toolbar
- Dialog box launcher
Creating a presentation
- Using slide layouts to add text and titles
- Editing and formatting text
- Applying and using templates
- Working with the slide master
- Themes & quick styles
- Inserting slides from existing presentations
Using PowerPoint views
- Slide view and slide sorter views
- Outline view and summary slides
- Notes view and speaker notes
Graphics
- Inserting a picture and applying effects
- Creating a diagram with SmartArt
- Copying a graph from Excel
- Controlling slide appearance
- Adding movement to objects on slides
- Using the slide show Help menu
- Printing slides and hand-outs
To find out more about this course, or to make a booking, please call us on 0118 9789 279 or click here
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2016: Power User
Duration:
One day (9:30 - 16:30)
Ideal for those ready to go "beyond the basics", this one-day comprehensive course builds on your existing skill set, helping you to add impact, troubleshoot and work more efficiently.
You will learn how to:
- Troubleshoot presentation layout issues
- Design and apply custom templates/themes
- Work smarter with graphics and drawing objects and charts
- Enhance slideshows with hyperlinks
- Produce professional looking hand-outs
Prerequisites: To benefit from this course you will already have attended the Introduction, or have the equivalent knowledge.
Course Content
Design templates
- Modifying the slide master
- Customising slide layouts
- Create custom themes
- Inserting video and sound clips
- Inserting drawing objects
- Manipulating objects:
- Duplicating
- Grouping/ungrouping
- Aligning & distributing
- Formatting
- Setting default formats
- Changing the “stack” order
- SmartArt tips and tricks
Working with charts
- Review of creating a PowerPoint chart
- Adding animation to a chart
- Copying an Excel chart into PowerPoint
- Copying Excel data into a PowerPoint chart
Adding special effects to presentations
- Animations/transitions
- Hyperlinks
- Mixing different slide designs
Set up a custom show
- Choose which slides to use for different audiences or different events
- Rehearse and record timings
- Set-up a slide show to repeat automatically
Collaborating on a presentation
- Finalise, share and secure presentations
To find out more about this course, or to make a booking, please call us on 0118 9789 279 or click here
to email us.
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We offer face-to-face and virtual sessions, tailored to your specific needs and designed to: build confidence; help you work more effectively and understand what to do next. Find out more.
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