Mastering PowerPoint Presentations

Module 1: Presentation Planning

• Audience and Environment
• Understand how audience demography and knowledge of subject impacts on planning of a presentation
• Understand venue considerations like: lighting, available presentation equipment, room size and layout
• Design, Content and Layout understand timing considerations like: adapt content to time available, allow appropriate time interval for each slide,
• Understand that presentation dialogue is supported by graphical objects and text,
• Understand the importance of using a consistent design scheme and adequate color contrast
• Be aware of accessibility design considerations like: font size, alternative text, colors, limiting animations and transitions

Module 2: Slide Masters and Templates

• Slide Masters: insert a new slide/title master, edit slide master layouts like: font, bulleted list format,
• Apply a custom slide master to specified slides
• Templates: create/modify a new template, add a theme

Module 3: Using Graphical Objects

• Formatting Drawn Objects: – Formatting Drawn Objects – apply background fill, transparency, 3-D effects, pick up a style from a drawn object and apply it to another drawn object, change the default formatting for new drawn objects
• Formatting Pictures, Images – adjust brightness and contrast, display in greyscale/black/white/washout format, Change/restore original colors
• Handling Graphical Objects – display, hide ruler, grid and guides, move guides, turn on/off snap objects to grid, crop, re-scale.

Module 4: Charts and Diagrams

• Using Charts- Format chart title/legend/data labels/axes labels, change the chart type for a defined
• Data series – change the gap/overlap between columns/bars, format columns/bars/plot area/chart area to display an image, change scale of value axis
• Using Diagrams – Create using built- in options a diagram like: flowchart/cycle/pyramid, add/move/delete shapes in a diagram, add/change/delete connectors in a flowchart

Module 5: Learn Multimedia

• Movies, Sound: Insert movies/sounds to play automatically/on mouse click
• Animation – change custom animation effects/ settings/sequence, apply colour dim effects to bulleted points after animation, animate chart elements

Module 6: Enhancing Productivity

• Linking, Embedding: Insert/edit/remove a hyperlink, insert an action button, link data into a slide and display as an object/icon, update/break a link, insert an image from a file with a link to the file,
• Embed data into a slide and display as an object, edit/delete embedded data
• Importing, Exporting – merge slide(s)/a complete presentation/a word-processed outline into an existing presentation, save a specified slide as a file format

Module 7: Managing Presentations

• Custom Shows -Create/show/copy/edit/delete a custom slide show
• Slide Show Settings – Apply/remove timings from slide transitions, apply settings to a slide show
• Slide Show Control – Add/erase pen comments during a slide show