MANIPULATING SLIDES
Inserting slides with a particular slide layout
Modifying the slide layout
Changing the background colour on the active slide
Changing background colour on all the slides within a presentation

THEMES
Applying a theme to a presentation

TEXT BOXES (PLACEHOLDERS)
What are Text Boxes (Placeholders)?
Resizing a Text Box (Placeholder)
Moving a Text Box (Placeholder)
Compatibility issues when saving a presentation

SELECTING, COPYING MOVING, RESIZING AND DELETING TEXT
Selecting text
Moving text within a slide
Moving text between slides within a presentation or between presentations
Copying text within a slide

Copying text between slides within a presentation or between presentations
Deleting text

SEARCHING YOUR PRESENTATION
Using Find
Using Replace

FONT FORMATTING
Font formatting options
Changing the font type
Changing font size
Increasing or decreasing the font size
Bold, Italic or Underline formatting
Strikethrough effects
Shadow effects
Character spacing
Changing case
Font colour
Clearing all text formatting

PARAGRAPH FORMATTING
Text alignment
Columns
Modifying bullet point formatting
Using numbering instead of bullet points
Changing the list level
Line spacing
Using Outline view
PowerPoint Notes
Text direction
Text alignment within a Text Box (placeholder)
Text Autofit
Using the Format Painter

SELECTING, COPYING MOVING, RESIZING AND DELETING ILLUSTRATIONS
Selecting an illustration
Moving an illustration
Copying an illustration
Deleting an illustration
Resizing an illustration
Stretching an illustration

Copying illustrations between presentations
Moving illustrations between presentations

INSERTING ILLUSTRATIONS
Inserting Illustrations within PowerPoint
Inserting pictures
Inserting Clip Art
Inserting Shapes
Inserting text into a shape
Inserting perfect circles or perfect squares
Inserting SmartArt
Inserting Charts

FORMATTING SHAPES
Formatting the shape background fill colour style
Formatting the shape line weight and style
Formatting the shape line colour
Applying a shadow to an illustration
Modifying arrow line shapes and size
Rotating or flipping an illustration
Rotating illustrations by dragging with the mouse
Layering illustrations to the front or back
Aligning illustrations vertically
Aligning illustrations horizontally
FORMATTING CHARTS
Changing the chart type
Changing the background colour in the chart
Changing the column, bar, line or pie slice colours in the chart

ORGANIZATION CHARTS
What is an organisation chart?
Creating an organisation chart
Adding labels to items within an organisation chart
Adding a co-worker to an organisation chart
Adding a subordinates within an organisation chart
Adding a manager within an organisation chart
Removing an item from an organisation chart

MOVING, COPYING AND DELETING SLIDES
Moving slides within a presentation or between presentations
Copying slides within a presentation
Deleting a slide or slides
Copying slides between presentations
Moving slides between presentations

SLIDE SHOWS
Running a slide show
Slide show transition effects
Slide show animation effects

PRINTING
Spell-checking
Using Portrait or Landscape slide orientation
Selecting your output format
Visually inspect each slide before printing
Printing a presentation

CUSTOMIZING POWERPOINT
Modifying PowerPoint options

Level 2 Course Outline:
PHOTO ALBUMS
What is a PowerPoint Photo Album?
Creating a Photo Album
Reordering the picture sequence
Rotating images within the Photo Album
Modifying the picture layout
Modify the frame shape
Applying a theme to the Photo Album.
Displaying your pictures in Black and White
Adding captions to each picture
Adjusting picture contrast and brightness

MEDIA CLIPS
Supported media file formats
Inserting a sound clip
Modifying the sound clip volume level
Controlling when the sound is played within a media clip
Hiding a the sound clip icon
Using a picture instead of the sound icon within a slide
Inserting a movie clip
Playing the movie full screen

TABLES
Inserting a table
Applying a style to a table
Cell background shading
Adding table effects
Adding ‘Quick Styles’ to selected text
Applying borders to cells
Deleting rows or columns
Inserting rows or columns

SLIDE SHOW ANIMATION EFFECTS
What are animation effects?
Applying animation effects to text
Applying animation effects to illustrations
Custom animation
Changing the sequence of animation within a slide

SLIDE SHOW MANIPULATION
Inserting Action Buttons
Setting Mouse over properties
Practising slide timings
Using slide timings
Slide show looping options
Hiding slides
Displaying hidden slides
Annotating slide shows
Creating a custom slide show
Editing a custom slide show
Running custom slide shows

TEMPLATES AND SLIDE MASTERS
Templates, Slide Masters and Themes
Creating and saving a template
Modifying a Slide Master
Creating footers and inserting the date
Handout and Notes Masters
Modifying the Handout Master
Modifying the Notes Master

SLIDE MANIPULATION
Merging slides or complete presentations
Merging a word-processed outline into a presentation
Applying graduated background fill colours, texture & patterns
Saving a slide in gif, jpeg or bmp format

MANIPULATING ILLUSTRATIONS
Moving a graphic backwards or forwards
Grouping and ungrouping objects
Positioning a graphic relative to the slide
Distributing selected graphics horizontally, vertically relative to a slide
Converting a picture to a drawn object
Controlling the display of background pictures on a slide
 

SHAPE FORMATTING
Applying shape effects
Applying (& repositioning) a shadow (of a specified colour) to a graphic
Applying graduated background effects to a drawn object
Applying a semi-transparent effect to a graphic
Applying 3-D effects to a drawn object
Further Shape style formatting options
Using the Format Painter to apply styles to objects

PICTURE FORMATTING
Applying picture styles
Modifying contrast and brightness
Re-colouring pictures
Cropping a picture
Re-scaling and rotating a picture
Resetting the image size
Rotating and flipping pictures
Setting picture shape
Converting a picture to a greyscale format
Saving a picture using a specific file format
Changing the colour depth of a picture

CHARTS AND FLOW CHARTS
Creating a chart
Changing the chart type
Applying chart styles and layouts
Creating a line-column on two axes / mixed chart
Formatting the vertical axis
Drawing a flowchart using built-in flowchart options
Changing or deleting flowchart shapes within a flowchart
Changing connector types between flowchart shapes

LINKING OBJECTS
Linking an Excel chart into a PowerPoint presentation
Updating a linked object
Editing linked data within a presentation
Converting a linked object within a slide to an embedded object
Linking a picture from a file

PRESENTATION PLANNING AND DESIGN CONCEPTS
Planning the right presentation for the right environment
Physical issues leading to a successful presentation
Design considerations
Matching the presentation to an audience
Colour issues within a presentation
Using a storyboard and time-line

Level 3 Course Outline:
CUSTOMISING POWERPOINT OPTIONS
Displaying the PowerPoint Options
Getting help about Word Options

POPULAR OPTIONS
Show the Mini Toolbar on selection
Enabling Live Preview
Showing the Developer tab on Ribbon
Always use ClearType
Colour Scheme
Customising the ScreenTip Style
Personalising your copy of Microsoft Office
Language Settings

PROOFING OPTIONS
AutoCorrect options
Replace With
Exceptions
Setting Microsoft Office spelling options
Setting PowerPoint specific spelling options

SAVE OPTIONS
Setting the default file format for saving presentation
Setting the AutoRecovery interval
Setting the default file location

ADVANCED OPTIONS
Setting the number of undo levels
Setting the number of recently used documents displayed
Setting the opening view
Background printing

CUSTOMIZE OPTIONS
Adding a command to the Quick Access Toolbar
Removing a command from the Quick Access toolbar
Easy way of modifying the Quick Access toolbar

ADD-INS OPTIONS
What are Add-Ins?

TRUST CENTER OPTIONS
Trust Center Settings
Setting trusted locations
Setting trusted locations

RESOURCES OPTIONS
Updates
Microsoft Office Diagnostics
Contact Microsoft
Microsoft Office Activation
Microsoft Office Online
About Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

PREPARING A PRESENTATION FOR DISTRIBUTION
PROPERTIES
Viewing properties within a Presentation
Editing properties

DOCUMENT INSPECTOR
What is the Document Inspector?
Using the Document Inspector

ENCRYPTION
Encrypting a presentation
Opening an encrypted presentation
Removing encryption from your presentation

DIGITAL SIGNATURES
What is a digital signature?
Creating a digital signature
Viewing a digital signature
Digital signature gives protection from changes

FINAL VERSIONS OF A PRESENTATION
Marking a presentation as the final version

COMPATIBILITY CHECKER
Checking compatibility with earlier versions of PowerPoint

PUBLISHING PRESENTATIONS
Creating Microsoft Word formatted handouts
Packaging a presentation for a CD
Running a presentation packaged for a CD

USING THE POWERPOINT VIEWER
What is the PowerPoint Viewer?
Downloading the PowerPoint Viewer

PUBLISHING TO THE WEB
Saving a presentation in HTML format
Publishing a presentation to the web
Changing the web page title
Setting Web options
Customizing colours
Setting browser compatibility options
Setting the screen resolution

MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES
WORDART
Inserting a WordArt object
Modifying the WordArt Text Fill
Modifying the Text Outline
Applying Text Effects

SYMBOLS
Inserting a symbol

COMMENTS
Adding comments
Navigating between comments
Editing comments

Deleting comments
Hiding comments

NARRATIONS
Using a microphone
Setting microphone levels for your narration
Recording narrations
Turing off narrations
Deleting narrations
Modifying narration quality

POWERPOINT DESKTOP SHORTCUT
Creating a PowerPoint Desktop shortcut

HYPERLINKS
Inserting hyperlinks
Using Hyperlinks
Adding a ‘Home’ link
Inserting a hyperlink pointing to a web site
Removing hyperlinks