PowerPoint 2007

Course Objective: To teach the PowerPoint 2007 program to an employable level and to enable learners to take the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist PowerPoint 2007 test (MCAS) or ECDL Advanced Module AM6 Presentation exam.

Course Content:

► Lesson One – Including: Starting the PowerPoint 2007 program, the PowerPoint interface, opening and closing a presentation, running a presentation as a slide show, different PowerPoint views, navigating between slides, adding a slide, saving a presentation, creating a new presentation, entering and editing text, indenting bulleted items, changing the bullet style, using zoom controls, printing slides, repeating the last action, exiting PowerPoint 2007

► Lesson Two – Including: Planning and designing a presentation, using AutoFit options, deleting a slide, selecting and formatting text, clear formatting, changing case, text alignment, line and paragraph spacing, using Format Painter. using Undo, resizing and moving a placeholder, identifying, applying and resetting slide layouts, using background styles, saving a presentation with a new filename

► Lesson Three – Including: Applying a theme, selecting colour and font schemes, saving a custom theme, selecting slides in Slide Sorter view, moving, copying and deleting slides. duplicating slides, re-using slides from another presentation, Find and Replace, Spell Check, adding and removing AutoCorrect items, moving and copying slide content, copying slides from one presentation to another. deleting a custom theme

► Lesson Four – Including: Selecting and rearranging slides in the outline tab, expanding and collapsing the slide outline, promoting and demoting outline text, inserting slides from a Word outline, creating, editing and formatting notes, adding headers and footers to notes and handouts, using the Notes Master, applying a gradient fill, using the Handout Master, different print options, selecting Page Setup options for slides

► Lesson Five – Including: Working in Slide Master view, formatting the Slide Master, adding, background styles in the Slide Master, inserting a graphic onto the Slide Master, hiding/displaying background graphics, formatting the layout masters, enabling the footer, date and slide number, applying a theme to a Slide Master, creating a custom layout in Slide Master view, running a slide show from the current slide, hiding and unhiding slides, using the Slide Show Toolbar, creating and running a custom slide show, saving a presentation as a template. creating a new presentation from a template

► Lesson Six – Including: Drawing and resizing shapes, moving, copying and rotating shapes, drawing and resizing a perfect circle square, specifying shape size and position, selecting multiple objects, grouping and ungrouping objects, aligning objects, viewing gridlines and align objects, applying Quick Styles, changing shape fill, outline and effects, using picture and texture fills, inserting and formatting Clip Art, inserting pictures, cropping pictures using the crop tool, adding a picture to the Slide Master, creating and formatting Word Art