Who this course is for
Lesson One: Entering and editing text, working with bulleted text, the undo/redo button, resetting to default formatting, adding slides, the principles of presentation planning and design, checking spelling, applying different themes. Lesson Two: Opening an existing presentation, adding new slides, using different slide layouts, changing the appearance of the text, changing the alignment of paragraphs, using format painter. Lesson Three: Creating a themed presentation, background formatting, adding, modifying and removing transition effects. Lesson Four: Creating a table, inserting and delete rows and columns, adjusting the table dimensions, merging cells, applying a background, changing the table design, the Draw table tool, inserting a chart and adding spreadsheet data, selecting and changing chart types. Lesson Five: Using the ruler, gridlines and guides, working with shapes - drawing, shading, rotating and moving, grouping and formatting, moving and resizing, adding shape effects, changing the order on a slide, adding text, using pictures, merging shapes. Lesson Six: SmartArt Graphics - creating, changing the type and layout, adding text and shapes, converting text to a SmartArt graphic, animating SmartArt; Text boxes - inserting and formatting, moving and resizing. Lesson Seven: Using the zoom controls; Photographs - inserting, applying artistic effects and corrections, cropping, compressing; Audio - inserting from a file, using the playback ribbon, removing audio; Video - inserting and linking video files. Lesson Eight: Autofit, Using data from Word and Excel, moving and resizing placeholders, line spacing, copying text and slides between open presentations, reusing slides. Lesson Nine: Outline view, working with a slide master, multiple slide masters, creating a new theme, using templates. Lesson Ten: Rehearsing slide timings, working with the rehearsal toolbar, changing timings, setting up a slide show, Slide Show view.
