In How to Build Powerful PowerPoint® Presentations, you'll learn...
- The tricks for using graphics to present technical material in easy-to-absorb pieces
- Ways to enhance your productivity using ribbons in PowerPoint
- How to avoid embarrassing design and layout blunders that immediately peg you as an amateur
- How to capitalize on PowerPoint’s presentation flexibility—present to several audiences simultaneously, set up your presentation to be self-running or publish it over the Internet
- And much more!
Discover how to move beyond the black-and-white overheads and Mylar® of the past and leap into the world of computerized presentation graphics. This workshop is full of ways to push PowerPoint to its multimedia limits, and to dazzle audiences with a push of a button.
WORKSHOP AGENDA
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PowerPoint startup+
- Learn to create impressive presentations using templates as a ready-made starting point
- Check out the items that are found when you click the Microsoft® Office Button
- Explore essential PowerPoint screen elements and the differences among the ribbons
- Find the quickest route to saving, printing and opening your presentations using shortcut keys
- Discover the 4 PowerPoint screen views—and how to change them on the fly
- Printing basics: How to print slides, handouts and slide outlines
- Personalize your own set of tools by adding items to the Quick Access Toolbar
Creating, editing and organizing slides+
- How to create, edit, place and adjust text boxes
- How to select, cut, copy and paste slides
- The steps for creating the perfect Slide Master so you can create multiple slides quickly
- Using text alignments to create a professional edge in all your presentation slides
- How to group and ungroup objects so your graphic elements are picture-perfect
- Flexibility on the fly: Simple techniques for changing the order of your slides and hiding and deleting slides
- Say goodbye to word and graphics clutter—how to use the Duplicate Selected Slides command to break up crowded slides
- How to add new slides to an existing presentation
- Punch up your visual appeal using SmartArt graphics with text and charts in your presentation
- How to use an existing presentation to create a different show for a variety of audiences
Designing and formatting your slides+
- How to use Apply Design to create a perfect master slide
- Move your mouse over slide colors, backgrounds and formats and immediately see the effects of the changes using Live Preview
- How to use bullets, headings, columns and other layout techniques to increase the effectiveness of your presentation
- How to rotate and resize objects, crop photos and change the color and weight of lines and borders
- How to create your own fill effects using scanned images in SmartArt® Tools in the Format tab
- Master the basics of graphics image editing, including cropping, resizing and bordering
- How to format your presentation for widescreen viewing
Multimedia and special effects+
- Discover how to punch up your presentation with clip art and animation
- How to use the Custom Animation task pane to set the play options for sound in your presentation
- Narrate your presentation directly from the Slide Show tab in PowerPoint
- Learn to use the Windows® Sound Recorder to create customized sound effects
- How to add video that’s included on your Office disk
- How to use animated images more effectively
- Do’s and don’ts for adding your own voice to a presentation
- How to set timing in the Animation tab so that your graphics appear when they’re supposed to during your presentation
- How to use Animation Settings to create dissolve effects for your graphics
- A quick tour of the more than 50 animation settings PowerPoint puts at your disposal and how to preview them without making the actual change
Connecting to other Office applications and the Web+
- How to make links to live Web pages while you’re connected to the Internet
- A step-by-step guide for creating hyperlinks between Word and Excel®
- Learn how to dynamically embed an Excel graphic in your PowerPoint files so that your monthly presentations always contain the most up-to-date data
- Discover how to import information stored on your local intranet
- Learn how to use your system’s cache to access Web pages when an Internet connection isn’t possible
Going live with your presentation+
- Discover the steps for setting up a timed presentation
- Uncover the various methods for transitioning between slides—without even clicking the mouse
- Find out how to get the best results from presentations using the Slide Show Resolution setting right from the Slide Show tab when presenting using a projector
- How to add page numbers, headers and footers to your printed slides
- How to publish your presentation on the Web
- How to print your presentation, notes and handouts
- How to publish a presentation to a PDF file using a Microsoft add-in
- PowerPoint’s suitcase: How to save your presentation with the Publish for CD feature
- Changing the order of your slides on the fly
