Getting acquainted with PPT 2007

• What does Powerpoint do?
• Tabs, Ribbons and Groups
• Working with the Slide pane, Design Area and the Speaker Notes area
• Understanding the new file formats
• New Features of Microsoft Powerpoint 2007

Working with charts

• Charts and presentations
• Creating a chart
• Working with different chart types
• Setting the chart title, chart axes, gridlines, legend, data labels, data tables.
• Changing the chart colours
• Adding or changing source data
• Plotting hidden data
• Switching rows and columns
• Changing the text angle
• Applying a gradient, texture or picture effect
• Manipulating 3D charts
• Exploding the pie
• Using a chart you created in Excel

Creating a consistent presentation

• Creating a consistent presentation
• Choosing a Theme
• Using the Slide Master
• Specifying what appears on each slide
• Defining the Slide Master Layout
• Defining the style of slide items
• Using the Slide Master Ribbon
• Saving Your Slide Master as a Template and using your template to create a new presentation

Advanced editing

• Proofing your presentation
• Replacing one font with another
• Using the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat tools

Running the show

• Navigation keys
• Adding annotation during a show
• Tricks of the trade

Linking within a presentation

• Linking to other slides in the same presentation, other presentations, other files, web pages and emails
• Hyperlinks – What are they?
• Why to set up links in a presentation?
• Creating a hyperlink
• Hyperlink characteristics
• Adding a screen-tip
• Editing a hyperlink
• Removing a hyperlink
• Using Action Buttons
• Returning to the link
  

Custom Animation

• Adding a preset animation to your slide(s)
• Making an entrance using custom animation
• Changing an item’s animation
• Removing an item’s animation
• Exploring other animation steps
• Previewing the animated slide
• Customising the custom animation
• Changing the animation sequence
• Using a motion path animation
• Using multiple animation steps
• Further Tailoring a custom animation
• Controlling animation speed
• Animating with sound efects
• Animating by sentence, word or letter
• Animating a chart
• Preparing for the perfect presentation
• Rehearsing your timing
• Recording a narration
• Creating, running and editing a custom show
• Setting up a slide show
• Preparing speaker notes and handouts
• Tips for becoming a better presenter
• The Statistics
• The Three ‘M’s
• The Mechanics
• The Message
• The Media

Incorporating sound and movies

• Adding a soundtrack to a presentation
• Changing how the track is initiated and when it finishes
• Playing directly from a CD
• Playing a movie during a show

Packaging a presentation

• Previewing and publishing the presentation to the web
• Creating a self-running presentation.