PowerPoint 2010 Essential Training

Introduction

• Welcome
• What is PowerPoint?
• Using the exercise files

1. Understanding the PowerPoint 2010 Interface

• Managing your presentations with Backstage
• Using the Office Ribbon
• Customizing the view
• Customizing the Office Ribbon

2. Getting Started

• Starting from scratch
• Adding slides and content
• Deleting slides and changing layouts
• Rearranging slides
• Saving time with Outline mode
• Separating your show into sections
• Adding photos and clip art
• Spell-checking
• Using the thesaurus
• Saving a presentation
• Applying a theme
• Running the show

3. Formatting a Presentation

• Using fonts and color
• Adding bullets and list numbering
• Changing text alignment
• Using picture effects
• Removing backgrounds from photos
• Understanding slide masters
• Changing slide backgrounds
• Adding a logo to the background
• Applying slide transitions
• Saving the design template

4. Adding Tables and Charts

• Creating tables
• Formatting tables
• Pasting tables from Excel
• Creating charts
• Pasting charts from Excel

5. Working with Shapes

• Adding shapes
• Moving, resizing, formatting, and rotating shapes
• Adding text to shapes
• Adding text boxes
• Working with layers (Send to Back and Send to Front)
• Animating text, shapes, and other objects

6. Adding Audio and Video

• Adding an audio clip
• Adding video
• Cropping video

7. Adding SmartArt and Diagrams

• Adding organizational charts
• Adding cycle diagrams, Venn diagrams, and other diagrams

8. Sharing with Others

• Printing a presentation
• Adding speaker notes
• Saving your presentation as a PDF
• Presenting on another laptop (packaging)
• Broadcasting on the web
• Saving as a video
• Using web apps through SharePoint

Conclusion

• Goodbye