Practical PowerPoint 2010 Tips & Tricks for the Workplace (ILT)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course covers Tips & Tricks on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. It assumes you have used PowerPoint and are familiar with creating, editing & formatting presentations.  In a quick and lively manner this will cover what is new in this version of PowerPoint and also show you some tips to increase your productivity in PowerPoint and widen your skills.

The course begins with a look at how you can use slide masters and custom layouts for customized presentations.  The use of PowerPoint templates and Office Themes for a unified look and feel across PowerPoint, Word and Excel is discussed.  Slide Sections are detailed for organizing long presentations.  Several examples of creating and editing SmartArt for beautiful diagrams are seen.  Inserting & editing videos is easy in PowerPoint and is demonstrated including trimming and compressing the video and saving the entire presentation as a video.  The mysteries of adding and customizing animations is covered as well as presenter tips like hiding a slide and other tips to control your show.

Category: Office Productivity/Microsoft

Duration: 1/2 Day

What are the requirements?

• Microsoft Office 2010

Pre-requsite: Basic skills in editing presentations

What am I going to get from this course?

• Use of Slide masters and Custom layouts
• How to create a custom template with colors, layout & contents
• How to create a custom Office Theme
• How to adjust color, effects and remove background colors on graphic objects
• Formatting with Office Themes for a unified look and feel
• How to use Sections to organize a long presentation
• How to make beautiful diagrams with the amazing SmartArt tool
• A basic review of animating objects for manual or automatic playback
• Presenter tips for hiding slides and navigating during a presentation
• How to add slides from other presentations
• How to insert, edit, trim, format and compress video clips in PowerPoint
• How to create exciting slide transitions
• How to create a beautiful presentations in under a minute using insert Photo Album
• How to save your presentation as a video for use on You Tube or burning a DVD

What is the target audience?

Busy PowerPoint users of any skill level who want a quick look at what is new and can save them time.  You should have basic skills in editing, formatting and working with PowerPoint presentations.

Lesson Plan

1. 1. Introduction

Introduction to PowerPoint 2010 Tips & Tricks Course

1. 2. Slide Masters & Custom Layouts

Use of Slide masters and Custom layouts

1. 3. Custom Template and Office Themes

How to create a custom template w colors, layout, &  custom Office Theme

1. 4. Slide Sections

Organizing your slides into sections

1. 5. SmartArt

Creating & editing SmartArt Graphics

1. 6. Embedding & Editing Videos

How to add a video to a slide, format it, and trim it in PowerPoint

1. 7. Graphics Tools

Applying styles and edits with Drawing & Picture tools.

1. 8. Animations  & transitions

Animating text and graphics, applying fancy transitions.

1. 9. Working with Multiple Presentations

How to open & copy from one PPT to another, keeping or matching  formatting

1. 10. Showing a Presentation

Starting a slide show, blank the screen, advance & jump to slides, hidden slides

1. 11. Saving as Video

Saving a PPT out as a video file for sharing such as burning a DVD

1. 12. Compressing Presentations

How to compress photos and video clips