What will you get out of the course?

• Rich slides that have more impact on your audience
• An understanding of animation best practice, and how to use it to enhance rather than undermine your presentation
• The ability to more easily share and edit your presentations by using appropriate file formats
• Slick, professional-looking diagrams through expert use of SmartArt

What will you learn on this course?

• Designing and Planning a Presentation
  
  Style guidelines; Avoiding common pitfalls and errors; Design fundamentals


• Working with Slides
  
  Adding notes to a slide; Adding slides from other presentations; Using Slide Masters; Using multiple Slide Masters; Resetting Slide Masters; Using headers and footers; Changing colour schemes; Customising backgrounds


• Adding Content to Slides
  
  Creating charts and graphs; Changing chart types; Modifying charts and graphs; Linking Excel data to a PowerPoint presentation; Creating diagrams; Formatting diagrams; Creating organisation charts; Modifying organisation charts; Using Word Art; Linking to Word documents; Using Paste Special


• Using Drawing Tools
  
  Creating, resizing, moving, copying and formatting drawing objects; Applying shadows and other effects to drawing objects; Using the Arrange tools to layer objects; Using the Grouping tools to control multiple objects; Using guidelines to effectively position objects; Modifying the drawing grid


• Working With Images and Pictures
  
  Inserting, resizing, moving, copying and formatting ClipArt pictures; Inserting, resizing, moving, copying and formatting other graphical images; Re-colouring images; Obtaining Clip Art and other images from the internet; Compressing images


• Automating Slideshows
  
  Inserting hyperlinks to other documents, presentations and web pages; Creating hyperlinks from drawing objects and images; Adding action buttons; Creating actions from drawing objects and images Inserting sound and movie clips into a presentation


• Running a Slideshow
  
  Running a simple slideshow; Using Slide Transitions; Animating slides; Using custom animations; Modifying custom animation timings and other effects Animating charts and diagrams; Creating a custom slide show; Running a custom slide show; Setting up a self running presentation; Using timings


• Issuing a Presentation
  
  Preparing a presentation for distribution; Packaging a presentation; Creating handouts from a presentation