PowerPoint 2010 - Introduction

PPT-10-01

Duration

Half day

Who should attend?

The module will suit all users with little or no experience who wish to learn how to use a presentation graphics application. The course is designed to cover all the essential features of PowerPoint required for producing business presentations.

Pre-requisites

No previous experience of a presentation graphics program is required.

Objectives

You will learn how to: Quickly and easily create professional presentations. Work with different slide layouts. Incorporate text, charts, graphics and drawing tools in a presentation. Enhance your presentation using colour schemes. Edit slide masters. Apply slide transitions and special effects.

Course Content

Presentation Essentials

Create a presentation based on a Rio Tinto template. Use the Rio Tinto Library file. Save, close and open a presentation. Apply slide transitions and effects. Undo and redo features. Print slides, handouts and speaker notes.

Views

Slide, slide sorter, notes and reading view.

Slide Layouts

Create a new slide. Slide layouts. Understand slide layouts in the Rio Tinto Library

Manipulate slides

Copy, move and delete slides. Copy slides between presentations. Switch to a different Rio Tinto colour scheme.

Bulleted Slides

Create bulleted lists using the Rio Tinto custom layout. Align and indent text. Paragraph spacing.

Tables

Work with tables in PowerPoint.

Charts

Create a chart based on the Rio Tinto custom layout. Edit the chart data. Understand the chart elements.

Images

Insert photographic images from the Rio Tinto Brandbank. Resize and crop an image. Insert a map from the Rio Tinto library.

Draw tools

Resize and move objects. Align, layer and group objects. Fill colours and patterns. Add text to objects.

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