Formulating for Success!

Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint

Course Description

Welcome to Microsoft PowerPoint®. This course is designed for beginners and intermediate-level students who wish to acquire, develop, or sharpen their PowerPoint® skills, which are essential for staying competitive in today’s job market.

This course is designed to walk you through Microsoft PowerPoint®, showing you how to use this popular program to make compelling presentations. Topics covered include planning a presentation, choosing a look for the presentation, inserting and modifying graphic objects, inserting graphs and organizational charts, embedding tables and worksheets, applying templates, utilizing slide transitions, preparing custom presentations and collaborating with workgroups.

This course is also intended for students who wish to pursue their Microsoft Office Specialist certification in PowerPoint.

Course Outcome

After completing Introduction to Microsoft Excel students will be equipped with a basic understanding of the following:

□      Design PowerPoint presentations on their computers through examples and interactive exercises

□      Develop presentations from scratch using templates

□      Create, format and make use of charts, graphs and tables

□      Develop slide layouts, themes, and slide masters

□      Navigate through presentations, save presentations, preview slide shows, check spelling, use bulleted and numbered lists, and use clip art and shapes to enhance presentations

□      Incorporate sound, video and animation into a presentation

Recommended Prerequisites

This course is an intended for students, professionals, and marketing people interested in learning how to program using the Microsoft PowerPoint

Assessment

Students will be assigned 5 homework assignments, and 5 exams.

Lesson 1: An Introduction to PowerPoint

• The PowerPoint Environment

• Orientation to Views

• Navigate Through a Presentation

• Edit Slide Text

• Save the Presentation

• Run a Slide Show

Lesson 2: Beginning a Presentation

• Create a New Presentation

• Change Background Color

• Add Slides to a Presentation

• Enter Text

• Create a Presentation from a Microsoft

• Word Outline

Lesson 3: Formatting Text Slides

• Apply Character Formats

• Align Text

• Change Line Spacing

• Change Indents

Lesson 4: Adding Tables to a Presentation

• Create a Table

• Format Tables

• Insert a Table from Microsoft Word

 Lesson 5: Charting Data

• Create a Column Chart

• Edit Chart Data

• Change Chart Type

• Insert a Chart from Microsoft Excel

Lesson 6: Modifying Objects

• Resize Objects

• Copy and Duplicate Objects

• Move Objects

• Changing Object Orientation

• Format Objects

• Group and Ungroup Objects

• Change the Order of Objects

Lesson 7: Adding Images to a

• Presentation

• Add Clip Art

• Add a Picture from a File

• Draw Lines and Shapes

• Insert WordArt

Lesson 8: Preparing to Deliver a Presentation

• Spell Check

• Arrange Slides

• Add Transitions

• Create Speaker Notes

• Send a Presentation to Microsoft Word

• Print the Presentation

Course Delivery

This course is Instructor-led and delivered through our award-winning online Learning Management System. See our FAQ for more details.

Education Credit

This course has 20 contact hours and can be used for 2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Course Registration

Course only: $49

Course + Certificate: $99