COMPUTER SKILLS
Computer skills are a valuable addition to any employee’s personal portfolio and can greatly increase your desirability to employers.
Overview
This two-day course is designed to help delegates to obtain the skills required to create & deliver a presentation.
Objectives
- Applying a Theme to your Presentation
- Create & Edit Charts
- Working with the Slide Master & adding Header & Footer Elements
- Using Slide Transition & Animation
- Create Hyperlinks & Photo Albums
- Adding Music to a Continuous Presentation
Course Prerequisite
MS Windows & Internet (Introduction)
Language of Delivery
English
Delivery Methods
Course is facilitated by a competent & experienced subject matter trainer, who utilises the following techniques to ensure that the session is practical and experiential:Â Questions; Discussion; Exercises & Assessments.
Who should attend?
Anyone who needs to enhance their presentations by using text, shapes, graphics, diagrams and also to add transitions, animation & sound.
Duration
2 Days
Includes:
- Comprehensive Manual
- Lunch & Refreshments (not applicable to on-site training)
- Electronic Certificate (on successful completion of the course)
- Electronic Trainer Feedback Report
- Electronic Delegate Feedback Questionnaire
Course outline
| Module 1 | What is PowerPoint? Creating a Blank Presentation Understanding the PowerPoint Interface PowerPoint Views Backstage View Opening & Closing a Presentation Exit PowerPoint |
| Module 2 | Creating a New Presentation Creating a New Slide Choosing a Slide Layout Creating a Title Slide Applying a Theme to your Presentation Adding Speaker Notes Saving the Presentation as a Slide Show Changing the Slide Size Preview & Print a Presentation |
| Module 3 | Working with Text Formatting Text Adding Symbols Creating Text Boxes Undo & Redo Cut, Copy & Paste Text Creating & Enhancing Bulleted Lists Line Spacing Paragraph Indentation Setting Tabs Spell Check Changing the Case of Text |
| Module 4 | Creating Charts Types of Charts Working with the Datasheet Work with Cells Clear & Deleting Rows & Columns Formatting Charts Inserting Excel Charts Creating Tables Edit & Format Tables |
| Module 5 | Drawing Shapes Grouping & Ungrouping Shapes Aligning & Distributing Shapes Change the order of Shapes Rotate & Flip Shapes Cut, Copy & Paste Shapes Duplicating Shapes Formatting Shapes Adding Text to Shapes Change the appearance of a Shape Adding Text to Shapes Using Callouts Inserting & Modifying Pictures |
| Module 6 | Using SmartArt Graphics Using the 3D Format Converting Text to a SmartArt Graphic Converting a SmartArt Graphic to Shapes or Text Create an Organisational Chart Adding Subordinate Shapes Formatting Text |
| Module 7 | Apply a Theme to your Presentation Change the Colour Scheme of a Theme Customize a Colour Scheme Exploring Master Views Modifying the Slide Master Header & Footer Elements to Slides, Notes and Handouts |
| Module 8 | Slide Sorter View Duplicate Slides Run a Slide Show Guidelines for creating a Slide Show Adding Transitions to a presentation Work with Transition Timings Adding Animation to Objects, such as Text, Charts and SmartArt Graphics Hide Slides Creating Custom Slide Shows |
| Module 9 | Using Outline View to rearrange Slides Creating a Summary Slide |
| Module 10 | Templates Building Custom Templates and Themes Create Action Buttons Action Settings Internal & External Hyperlinks Inserting Video Clips Inserting Sound Adding Sound to a continuous Presentation Setup a Slide Show to Play Automatically Creating & Editing Photo Albums Package a Presentation for CD Package & Run a Presentation |