50129 - Learn Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Step by Step, Level 1

This one-day instructor-led course provides students with an overview of the features and functions of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Work in the PowerPoint environment
• Open, move around in, and close a presentation
• Display different views of a presentation
• Save a presentation
• Quickly create a presentation
• Create a presentation based on a ready-made design
• Convert an outline to a presentation
• Reuse existing slides
• Create a photo album
• Enter text
• Edit text
• Add and manipulate text boxes
• Correct and size text while typing
• Check spelling and choose the best words
• Find and replace text and fonts
• Change the size, alignment, spacing, and look of text
• Change the layout of a slide
• Rearrange slides in a presentation
• Apply a theme
• Switch to a different color scheme
• Use colors that are not part of the scheme
• Add shading and texture to the background of a slide
• Insert and modify clip art images
• Preview and printing a presentation
• Finalise a presentation
• Show a presentation

Module 1: Introduction to PowerPoint 2007
This module explains how to work with presentations, including how to open, view, save, and close them.

Lessons
• Working in the PowerPoint Environment
• Opening, Moving Around in, and Closing a Presentation
• Displaying Different Views of a Presentation
• Saving a Presentation

Lab : Introduction to PowerPoint 2007
• Explore the interface.
• Explore ways to move around in a presentation.
• Explore different views.
• Save a new presentation in a new folder and an existing presentation in an existing folder.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Give commands, and open and close presentations.
• Move among slides and to specific slides in a presentation.
• Look at presentations in different ways.
• Save presentations.

Module 2: New Presentations
This module explains how to create presentations from templates, convert outlines to presentations, reuse existing slides, and create photo albums.

Lessons
• Quickly Creating a Presentation
• Creating a Presentation Based on a Ready-Made Design
• Converting an Outline to a Presentation
• Reusing Existing Slides
• Creating a Photo Album

Lab : New Presentations
• Create a presentation based on a presentation template.
• Create a presentation based on a design template, and add and delete slides.
• Import an outline as a presentation.
• Import slides from an existing presentation.
• Display photos in a photo album.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Create presentations from different kinds of templates.
• Reuse outlines from other programs and reuse slides from other presentations.
• Import photos to create a photo album.

Module 3: Slide Text
This module explains how to enter and edit text; add and manipulate text boxes; check spelling and use the Thesaurus; find and replace text and fonts; and change the size, alignment, spacing, and look of text.

Lessons
• Entering Text
• Editing Text
• Adding and Manipulating Text Boxes
• Correcting and Sizing Text While Typing
• Checking Spelling and Choosing the Best Words
• Finding and Replacing Text and Fonts
• Changing the Size, Alignment, Spacing, and Look of Text

Lab : Slide Text
• Enter text in layout placeholders.
• Edit slide text.
• Create, size, position, and format text boxes.
• Explore AutoCorrect and AutoFit
• Correct misspellings, and substitute a word.
• Replace a word and a font, and hide an object.
• Resize placeholders, and apply paragraph and character formatting.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Enter and edit text.
• Create and manipulate text boxes.
• Use AutoCorrect and AutoFit.
• Correct spelling errors and find the right word to use.
• Find and replace text and fonts.
• Resize placeholders, and use paragraph and character formatting to enhance text.

Module 4: Slide Layout and Order
This module explains how change the layout of slides and rearrange slides in a presentation.

Lessons
• Changing the Layout of a Slide
• Rearranging Slides in a Presentation

Lab : Slide Layout and Order
• Switch to a different layout, adjust it, and revert to the default layout.
• Arrange slides in a presentation.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Change to a different slide layout.
• Change slide order in a presentation.

Module 5: Visual Enhancements
This module explains how to apply themes to presentations, change the color scheme or create a custom color scheme, change the color of specific elements, add backgrounds to presentations, and insert and customize clip art.

Lessons
• Applying a Theme
• Switching to a Different Color Scheme
• Using Colors That Are Not Part of the Scheme
• Adding Shading and Texture to the Background of a Slide
• Inserting and Modifying Clip Art Images

Lab : Visual Enhancements
• Switch to a different theme.
• Switch to a different color scheme, and create a custom color scheme.
• Change the color of specific elements.
• Add background shading and texture.
• Insert and customise a clip art image.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Change the theme applied to a presentation.
• Change a color scheme or create a custom color scheme.
• Change the color of a specific element.
• Change the slide background.
• Add a clip art image to a slide.

Module 6: Lights, Projector, Action!
This module explains how to preview and print a presentation, how to ensure that a presentation contains no inappropriate information before marking it as final, and how to present a presentation.

Lessons
• Previewing and Printing a Presentation
• Finalising a Presentation
• Showing a Presentation

Lab : Lights, Projector, Action!
• Prepare a presentation for printing, and then print it.
• "Scrub" a presentation, and mark it as final.
• Deliver a presentation, and mark up slides.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Check a presentation's layout in Print Preview, and then print it.
• Finalise a presentation before distributing it
• Show a presentation and reinforce specific topics by marking up slides

This course is intended for novice information workers who want to learn beginning-level PowerPoint 2007 skills.

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Basic computer knowledge, such as keyboard and mouse skills.
• Basic file-management skills. The student should know how to navigate to folders and files on a computer running Windows Vista.