Duration
1 day
Introduction
There’s more beyond PowerPoint templates, and bullet points. Pick up ideas on creating powerful visuals, beautiful design and typography to captivate your audience. This training is about how to create great looking slides. Making bad slides is easy and we have seen many. Making good slides is easy too, but you need to be willing to invest in your slides and invest in your own visual thinking skills. We’ll help you with the PowerPoint techniques along the way.
Audience
PowerPoint users.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students should have experience:
- A basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office PowerPoint
Module 1: Creating Professional-Looking Slides
This module explains how to select appropriate fonts, apply customize slide background and create SmartArt in presentation.
- Tips on Choosing Fonts
- Embed Fonts in Your Presentation
- Customize Slide Background
- Use Fill Effects as Background
- Apply a Design Template
- Creating SmartArt Graphics
- Shapes Transformation (using shapes)
- Typographic Skills (using WordArt)
- Insert Date and Slide Numbers
- Create Handouts
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Select Fonts
- Customize and apply Fill Effect on Slide Background
- Creating SmartArt Graphics
- Insert Date and Slide Numbers
- Create Handouts
Module 2: Preset Animation Schemes
This module provides in-depth information about preset animation schemes.
Lessons
- Enhance Your Presentation with Animation
- Apply a Preset Animation Scheme
- Remove a Preset Animation Scheme
Module 3: Custom Animation
This module describes how to apply custom animation to individual slides.
Lessons
- Why Use Custom Animation?
- Display Custom Animation Task Pane
- Add a Custom Animation Effect to a Slide
- Change the Direction and Speed of Effect
- Change How An Effect Starts
- Change and Remove Effects
- Apply Animation Effects Using Slide Master
- Copy and Modify Animation Effects in Slide Master
Module 4: More Custom Animation Effects
This module describes how to use custom animation in more detail.
Lessons
- Animate by Word or By Letter
- Create an Audio Introduction
- Animate a List
- Customize Animation of List
- Dim or Hide Text
- Rearrange Animation Effects
- Create a Countdown Effect
Module 5: Timing Options and Timeline
This module explores variations of timelines and timing options for animation duration.
Lessons
- Create Overlapping Effects
- Display Advanced Timeline
- Read the Different Duration Types
- Change Start Time and Duration Using the Timeline
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Use With Previous to start all animations at the same time.
- Use Advanced Timeline.
- Read different duration types.
- Change start times.
Module 6: Adding Special Effects
This module explores advanced special effects and multimedia options.
Lessons
- Animate a Chart
- Add Transition Effects with Sound
- Set Up Automatic Slide Timings
- Insert Multimedia Object
- Change Multimedia Settings
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Display charts in a series to appear at once, or by each category.
- Use transition effects between slides.
- Set slides to proceed automatically.
- Insert multimedia objects such as sound and video clips.
- Change settings to start and stop multimedia in a slide
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.