Powerpoint 2016 Essentials

Participants will learn to create, edit, and enhance slideshow presentations to create professional-looking sales presentations, employee training, instructional materials, and kiosk slideshows. Learners will gain a fundamental understanding of the PowerPoint 2016 environment and the correct use of key features of this application.

Completing this course will confer 2 CPD Credits towards internationally recognised Continuous Professional Development Requirements within organisations operating this kind of staff development methodology.

Course Outline

Module One: Create and manage presentations

• Create a presentation
  • Create a new presentation
  • Create a presentation based on a template
  • Import Word document outlines
• Insert and format slides
  • Insert specific slide layouts
  • Duplicate existing slides
  • Hide and unhide slides
  • Delete slides
  • Apply a different slide layout
  • Modify individual slide backgrounds
  • Insert slide headers, footers, and page numbers
• Modify slides, handouts, and notes
  • Change the slide master theme or background
  • modify slide master content
  • create a slide layout
  • modify a slide layout
  • modify the handout master
  • modify the notes master
• Order and group slides
  • Create sections
  • Modify slide order
  • Rename sections
• Change presentation options and views
  • Change slide size
  • Change views of a presentation
  • Set file properties
• Configure a presentation for print
  • Print all or part of a presentation
  • Print notes pages; print handouts
  • Print in color, grayscale, or black and white
• Configure and present a slide show
  • Create custom slide shows
  • Configure slide show options
  • Rehearse slide show timing
  • Present a slide show by using Presenter View

Module Two: Insert and Format Text, Shapes, and Images

• Insert and format text
  • Insert text on a slide
  • Apply formatting and styles to text
  • Apply WordArt styles to text
  • Format text in multiple columns
  • Create bulleted and numbered lists
  • Insert hyperlinks
• Insert and Format Shapes and Text Boxes
  • Insert or replace shapes
  • insert text boxes, resize shapes and text boxes
  • format shapes and text boxes
  • apply styles to shapes and text boxes
• Insert and format images
  • Insert images
  • Resize and crop images
  • Apply styles and effects
• Order and group objects
  • Order objects
  • Align objects
  • Group objects
  • Ddisplay alignment tools

Module Three: Insert Tables, Charts, SmartArt, and Media

• Insert and Format Tables
  • Create a table
  • Insert and delete table rows and columns
  • Apply table styles
  • Import a table
• Insert and Format Charts
  • Create a chart
  • Import a chart
  • Change the Chart Type
  • Add a legend to a chart
  • Change the chart style of a chart
• Insert and Format SmartArt Graphics
  • Create SmartArt graphics
  • Convert lists to SmartArt graphics
  • Add shapes to SmartArt graphics
  • Reorder shapes in SmartArt graphics
  • Change the color of SmartArt graphics
• Insert and manage media
  • Insert audio and video clips
  • Configure media playback options
  • Adjust media window size
  • Set the video start and stop time
  • Set media timing options

Module Four: Apply transitions and animations

• Apply slide transitions
  • Insert Slide Transitions
  • Set transition effect options
• Animate Slide Content
  • Apply animations to objects
  • Apply animations to text
  • Set animation effect options
  • Set animation paths
• Set Timing for Transitions and Animations
  • Set transition effect duration
  • Configure transition start and finish options
  • Reorder animations on a slide

Module Five: Manage Multiple Presentations

• Merge Content From Multiple Presentations
  • Insert slides from another presentation
  • compare two presentations
  • insert comments, review comments

• Finalize Presentations
  • Protect a presentation
  • Inspect a presentation
  • Proof a presentation
  • Preserve presentation content
  • Export presentations to other formats