Microsoft Powerpoint Introduction - In-company / Bespoke

Getting Started with PowerPoint

• Identify the Components of the PowerPoint Interface
• Create a PowerPoint Presentation
• Accessing Help

Choose the right view for the task in PowerPoint

• Normal view
• Slide Sorter view
• Notes Page view
• Outline view
• Add, rearrange, and delete slides in PowerPoint

Working with Themes

• Add colour and design to my slides with themes
• Remove the current slide design (theme)

Slide Layout

• What is a slide layout?
• Apply or change a slide layout

Working with text

• Add text to a slide
• Create a new text box
• Format text

Tables

• Add a table to a slide
• Format a Table
• Copy and paste a table from Word
• Insert an Excel spreadsheet within PowerPoint
• Edit Cells, Rows and Columns
• Delete a table

Graphics

• Working with Clipart, and Shapes
• Selecting objects, shapes, pictures or text boxes
• Arrange a picture, shape or other object

Adding Charts to Your Presentation

• Create a Chart
• Format a Chart
• Insert a Chart from Microsoft Excel

Inserting date and slide numbers

• Add slide numbers to your presentation
• Hide slide numbers on the title slide
• Change where the page numbers appear on your slides
• Start your slide numbering with a specific number

Print slides, notes, or handouts

Create the Slide Show

• Record your slide show
• Preview the recorded slide show
• Turn slide timings off
• Set the slide timings manually
• Add or remove transitions between slides
• Add Animations to Text and Objects
• Deliver the Presentation

Speakers notes

• Add speaker notes to your slides
• View your speaker notes as you deliver your slide show