PowerPoint 2010 Expert
Courseware Training Materials
Part of the Computer Expert Series

Intermediate / Advanced level computer training materials for delivering training to your students, staff or clients.  A courseware site licence allows you to train an unlimited number of people, at your training center using these teaching resources.

Training Course Outlines 

SLIDE MASTERS.

• Inserting slide masters.
• Editing a slide master.
• Customized slide masters.

THEMES.

• Applying Themes.
• Modifying a Theme and saving it as a new Theme.
• Setting a Theme as the default theme.
• Deleting a Theme.
• Creating and saving a new presentation template
• Modify a template

FORMATTING PICTURES & IMAGES.

• Picture brightness and contrast.
• Picture color modes.
• Re-coloring and resetting pictures.
• Compressing pictures.

MANIPULATING GRAPHICS.

• Ruler and Gridlines.
• Snapping to the grid and grid spacing.
• Positioning a graphic relative to the top-left corner of a slide.
• Distributing graphics horizontally on a slide.
• Distributing graphics vertically on a slide.
• Cropping a graphic.
• Re-scaling pictures.
• Converting a Clip Art picture to an AutoShape and then editing the AutoShape.
• Saving a graphic as a graphics file.
• Applying a background graphic to a single slide.
• Hiding the background graphic on a single slide.
• Applying a background graphic to multiple slides.
• Hiding the background graphics on multiple slides.
• Applying a background graphic to every slide.
• Hiding the background graphic on every slide.

FORMATTING AUTOSHAPES.

• AutoShape background fill effects.
• AutoShape transparency effects.
• AutoShape shape effects.
• AutoShapes Format Painter.
• AutoShape defaults.

DIAGRAMS.

• Creating and formatting an organization chart.
• Creating a cycle diagram.
• Creating a pyramid diagram.
• Creating a flowchart using ‘Shapes’.
• Editing Flowchart shapes and connectors.

CHARTS.

• Chart title.
• Chart legend.
• Data labels.
• Axes labels.
• Changing chart type.
• Chart gap and overlaps.
• Using images in chart columns or rows.
• Using plot and chart area graphics.
• Axis scales.

MOVIES AND SOUND.

• Using movies.
• Using sounds.

ANIMATION.

• Creating custom animation effects.
• Modifying custom animation settings.
• Changing the custom animation sequence.
• Using custom animation to fade bulleted paragraphs.
• Animating chart columns by series.
• Animating, or not animating, the chart grid and legend.

LINKING AND EMBEDDING.

• Action buttons - Linking to a different slide.
• Action buttons - Linking to a specific slide.
• Action buttons - Linking to a URL.
• Action buttons - Linking to Custom Shows.
• Action buttons - Linking to a different file.
• Linking data into a slide and displaying as an icon object.
• Linking and updating objects.
• Breaking a link.
• Inserting a link to a graphics file.
• Embedding data into a slide and displaying it as an object.
• Editing or deleting embedded data.

HYPERLINKS

• Creating and editing hyperlinks.

IMPORTING AND EXPORTING.

• Merging all the slides from one presentation into another presentation.
• Merging a Microsoft Word outline into a presentation.
• Saving a slide as a separate graphics file.

SLIDE SHOWS.

• Creating custom slide shows.
• Editing a custom slide show.
• Copying and deleting custom slide shows.
• Slide show transitions and timings.
• Controlling slide show looping.
• Applying settings so that slides advance manually.
• Setting slide show timings.
• Enabling or disabling slide show animations.
• Controlling a slide show.

PRESENTATION DESIGN PRINCIPLES

• Planning your presentation.
• Turn off your computer screen saver.
• Issues relating to presentation timing.
• Using graphics, diagrams and charts to convey ideas.
• Limiting the level of detail within a presentation.
• Using a consistent design scheme and adequate color contrast.
• Accessibility considerations when designing a presentation.