Intro to Microsoft PowerPoint Training from Belfast Northern Ireland - Online Training Course

22 August 2024

Our 1 day Microsoft PowerPoint Introduction course is suitable for complete beginners to Microsoft PowerPoint.

Prerequisites

A working knowledge of Windows is required, or our Introduction to MS Windows course. No experience of MS PowerPoint is required.

Benefits

At the end of this course you will have a good working knowledge of PowerPoint basics. You will feel more confident using PowerPoint and be able to create a presentation from scratch. You will learn how to improve the format of your text as well as getting to grips with importing and manipulating graphics, using the Powerpoint drawing tools and the chart and table design tools to make your presentation much more visually stimulating. You will also learn how to make modifications to your presentation before you learn how PowerPoint is used in a live presentation.

After completing this course you will be prepared to attend our Advanced MS PowerPoint training course.

Course Content

Basic File Operations

• Open, Close, Save (As)
• Print (Different Views)
• Pack And Go

Drawing Objects

• Rectangles, Ellipses
• Resize & Move
• Scale Facility To Resize Exactly
• Adjust Border & Line Style & Colour (inc Arrowheads)
• Send To Front/ To Back/ Forward/ Backward
• Align, Group, Rotate Objects
• Autoshapes
• Shadow

Format Text

• Font Type, Size
• Shadow, Colour
• Styles
• Format Painter

Pictures

• Images From File/ Clipart
• Move & Resize Image
• Set Picture Properties ?€? Transparency, Background Colour, Wrap Text

Backgrounds

• Use from Template
• Customise
• Create Own

Templates

• Use Standard
• Customise Existing & Create New

Toolbars

• Hide/ Display
• Customise Existing
• Create New

Tools

• Find and Replace
• Convert Case
• Spelling
• AutoCorrect
• Pack and Go

Clipart

• Resize
• Change Colour Scheme
• Group and Ungroup To Rotate
• Picture Toolbar
• Customise ClipArt Gallery

Views Available

• Slide
• Slide Master
• Slide Sorter
• Outline
• Notes

Prepare Slide Show

• Animate Presentation Using Build Slides & Transition Effects
• The Difference Between Pre-set & Custom Animation
• Animation Effects Toolbar
• Use Timings

Slide Layouts

• Bullets
• Clipart
• Tables
• Graphs
• Organisational Chart
• Media Clips
• Objects