Microsoft PowerPoint Training: Intermediate

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Microsoft PowerPoint Training: Intermediate

Course Description

As a Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® user, you are familiar with the basics of creating a presentation, and you are able to convey information effectively in a simple way. Static content in presentations, however, will not keep your audience interested. In this course, you will enhance presentations with features that will transform basic presentations into a powerful means of communication.

Course Objective: You will enhance your presentation with features that will transform it into a powerful means of communication. You will customize the PowerPoint interface to suit your requirements and use the new and enhanced features to create dynamic and visually appealing presentations. You will then finalize a presentation and secure it to authenticate its validity.

Target Student: This course is designed for students who want to gain the skills necessary to work with design templates, various types of diagrams, special effects, custom slide shows, collaboration functionality, and advanced presentation delivery. This course also assists in the preparation for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Microsoft® Office PowerPoint. It is for students who already have knowledge of the basics of Microsoft® PowerPoint, including slide formatting and working with tables, charts, images, objects, and presentation preparation.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following Element K courses or have equivalent knowledge:

• Microsoft® Office PowerPoint: Introduction

Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• customize the PowerPoint environment.
• customize a design template.
• add diagrams to your presentation.
• add special effects to a PowerPoint presentation.
• use the various options to customize slide shows.
• use PowerPoint to publish slides to a slide library and secure your presentations.
• finalize a presentation.

PowerPoint Training Course Content

Lesson 1: Customizing the PowerPoint Environment

Topic 1A: Personalize the PowerPoint Interface
Topic 1B: Customize Save Options
Topic 1C: Apply Advanced Customization Options

Lesson 2: Customizing a Design Template

Topic 2A: Set Up a Slide Master
Topic 2B: Customize Slide Layouts
Topic 2C: Create Custom Themes
Topic 2D: Customize Bullets
Topic 2E: Add Common Slide Information
Topic 2F: Modify the Notes Master
Topic 2G: Modify the Handout Master

Lesson 3: Adding Diagrams to a Presentation

Topic 3A: Create a Diagram
Topic 3B: Modify Diagrams

Lesson 4: Adding Special Effects to Presentations

Topic 4A: Add Multimedia Elements
Topic 4B: Customize Slide Component Animation

Lesson 5: Customizing a Slide Show Presentation

Topic 5A: Set Up a Custom Show
Topic 5B: Annotate a Presentation
Topic 5C: Create a Presenter-Independent Slide Show
Topic 5D: Set Up a Slide Show to Repeat Automatically

Lesson 6: Collaborating on a Presentation

Topic 6A: Publish Slides to a Slide Library
Topic 6B: Share a Presentation

Lesson 7: Finalizing a Presentation

Topic 7A: Review a Presentation
Topic 7B: Secure Presentations
Topic 7C: Publish a Presentation as a Web Page