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This course is designed to enable you to master the
preparation and delivery
of presentations (talks to groups) using PowerPoint; a
tool included in the Microsoft Office suite of
software.
You will create several presentations in the course
and
cover issues such as preparing and formatting slides,
altering the content of slides, rehearsing a talk and
changing the order of slides in a talk.
We will also show you how to prepare
graphics (illustrations) of your own and import these
into the PowerPoint environment so that your slides have
the look and feel appropriate to your message.
The full day course runs on demand -
please send an email
to
info@designcad.com.au and we will reply with some
possible dates. Training in this software is offered in both Adelaide and
Canberra, but in
Canberra, we need a minimum of three students in a group
to cover costs as we hire a training room in the Hotel
Kurrajong, National Circuit Barton.
The cost
of the course for in-house training is $A750.00 per person and includes GST.
We encourage payment prior to taking the course by
direct deposit to our bankers or via
PayPal. We
encourage payment via
PayPal, an organization which takes all credit cards
using a secure Internet facility. PayPal is a partner
within the eBay system. We have chosen PayPal because it
is independent of us, allows us to hold money in trust
until we have delivered the course and is now
operational in Australia.
We will provide a tax invoice on
receipt of payment. If you cannot attend after booking a
course, there is no penalty, we will simply re-schedule.
If this is not possible, we will refund payment.
This course can be taken by distance learning at a
considerable discount - $A250.00.
We ship a printed workbook and CD-ROM
containing a large collection of these instructional
movies. Together they enable you to learn to use the
software. We provide email support while you
work though the course.
Here is a link to
background material on the way our distance courses
work.
If your company or
organization is paying for the course, all we need is a
purchase order and an address to send the course
materials. We encourage payment via
PayPal, an
organization which takes all credit cards using a secure
Internet facility. PayPal is a partner within the eBay
system. We have chosen PayPal because it is independent
of us, allows us to hold money in trust until we have
delivered the course and is now operational in
Australia.
If you take the course as a private distance
student, payment for courses can also be
accepted through the the
PayPal system.
When taken in-house, An Introduction
to Microsoft PowerPoint normally runs over a full day session.
An
understanding of basic
computer operation including the ability to create, save and locate files. We
would expect that you have used a computer with
the Windows operating system for some
time and perhaps developed reasonable facility
with a word processor
such as Microsoft Word. If you do not have these
skills, visit the free software training section
on this web site or click the Help button below.
The table below provides an overview of
the course content.
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PowerPoint Process |
Starting PowerPoint and
opening a presentation. The PowerPoint interface, the
presentation window, text frame objects, slide layout, outline
view, normal view, slide sorter view, slide show, research view,
selecting objects, slide master, inserting slides, fonts,
options and toolbars are discussed. The mechanics of running a slide show
is covered. Finally, we alter a slide
show by removing a couple of slides and edit some existing
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Types
of PowerPoint Presentations |
Adding information to slides.
Building a three page presentation - a title slide, a slide with
bullets, a slide with a three dimensional image. Inserting coloured symbols. Using different views of your presentation -
slide, notes and outline. Rearranging slide order. Working with
objects. Promoting and demoting text and text items.
Using PowerPoint's wizards. |
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Interface |
The PowerPoint interface. Adding information to
slides, PowerPoint objects, adding new slides, indenting and
bullets, types of graphic files compatible with PowerPoint. Insert and modify clipart images, inserting a
picture, modifying a picture, inserting and modifying stylized
text. Paging through slides, the draw toolbar - connectors,
lines, block arrows, callouts, auto shapes. Colouring text and
graphics, Using the outlining feature, adding notes. Drawing and modifying a shape, changing the
appearance of a shape, aligning and connecting shapes, stacking
and grouping shapes. Ground rules for the talk - trade show
looping. Inserting and formatting a table, inserting an
Excel spreadsheet, inserting and formatting a chart, inserting
an organizational chart. Using Tables. PowerPoint on the web.
Adding and manipulating text, changing size,
alignment and spacing. Finding and replacing text and fonts,
correcting text while typing, checking spelling and presentation
styles, choosing the best word.
Entering and viewing text, editing text,
rearranging text and slides, formatting text in an outline,
importing an outline form Word, sending an outline or notes to
Word. |
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Preliminaries
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Installing PowerPoint.
Setting defaults and adjusting preferences. Creating
the correct environment for PowerPoint.
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Design Tips |
Planning a talk. Some
guidelines for making effective presentations. |
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Managing the Slide master |
Gaining consistency in your
presentations - setting up a and managing the slide master.
Viewing and changing the presentation master, saving a
presentation as a design template. Using Photoshop to create
your own background for a slide master.
Switching to a different colour scheme, creating
a colour scheme, adding colours that are not part of the scheme,
colouring and shading a slide background. |
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Embed Objects |
Embedding objects in
PowerPoint slides - sound files, graphics. Animating slides, adding transition effects,
inserting and playing sounds and movies. |
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Printing |
Printing PowerPoint
presentations.
Adding comments to a presentation, protecting a
presentation with a password, sending a presentation for review,
merging versions and handling reviewers' changes. Adding a footer and header, reviewing a
presentation, sending a presentation to the printer.
Presentations as PDF files. Previewing and saving a presentation
as a web page. |
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Setting
up and delivering slide shows |
Taking a presentation on the road, delivering a
slide show, customizing a slide show, adding slide timings,
using Microsoft Producer to set up an online broadcast. |
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Customizing PowerPoint |
Customizing toolbars, changing the default
settings for objects, simplifying tasks with macros. |
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Note: In addition to providing courses in our dedicated training
centre located within a campus of the University of Adelaide, we
also run many courses via our distance
learning program. This course is not yet available via our distance
learning program, but will be in the
near future.
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