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Intermediate /Advanced PowerPoint 2016 training – Provisional Course Outline

Aims of the Intermediate /Advanced PowerPoint 2016 training course
The Intermediate/ Advanced PowerPoint 2016 training course aims to give delegates a greater understanding of Microsoft PowerPoint 2016. We provide Microsoft PowerPoint training at your site in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.
| Number on course | Price per day |
|---|---|
| 1 - 1 training | £315 + VAT |
| 2 - 4 people | £495 + VAT |
| 5 - 8 people | £645 + VAT |
Course Objectives
On completion of the course delegates will have improved their skills in using Microsoft PowerPoint 2016. They will be able to:
- Create and edit slides using a variety of layouts and styles
- Add additional objects to slides
- Use formatting to create a consistent, sophisticated presentation
- Understand the elements of good slide design
- Combine information from other applications into a PowerPoint presentation
The course is of one day’s duration.
How the course is run – This instructor-led course has a hands-on approach, with plenty of opportunity for delegates to practise the new skills they learn at the computer.
Pre-requisites – Familiarity with the Windows environment, and a basic knowledge of PowerPoint.
Course Outline
Design Considerations
- Audience and environment
- Assimilation
- Delivery
Slides
- Creating and saving a new presentation template
- Merging slides and presentations
- Merging a word-processed outline into a presentation
- Applying background effects to slides
- Exporting slides in gif, jpeg and bmp formats
Pictures, images and drawn objects
- Converting pictures to drawn objects
- Grouping and ungrouping drawn objects
- Bringing images backwards or forwards
- Positioning and aligning pictures images and drawn objects
- Omitting background graphics from slides
- Applying semi-transparent, 3-D, shadowed and background fill effects to pictures, images and drawn objects
- Using the Format Painter
- Adjusting depth of images
- Cropping and proportionately rescaling an image
- Rotating, mirroring and flipping an image
- Applying effects to images
- Converting an image into greyscale or black and white format
- Converting an image into a file format such as: bmp, gif, jpeg format
- Compressing images
- SmartArt – creating, formatting, changing layout, changing colours
- Converting PowerPoint text to SmartArt graphics
Charts and graphs
- Creating a line-column chart on two axes
- Changing chart type format
- Changing chart data type for a data series
- Changing scale of value axis
- Drawing flowcharts
- Changing or deleting flowchart shapes
- Changing connector types between flowchart shapes
Multimedia
- Inserting sounds and movies
- Animating objects
- Changing the sequence of animations in a slide
- Applying automatic settings so that bulleted points and drawn objects will dim to a specified colour after animation
- Animating chart elements
Managing presentations
- Hyperlinks
- Creating action buttons
- Applying timings to slide transitions
- Automatic slide shows
- Presenter view
- Custom slide shows
Linking to other applications
- Importing and linking data from Excel to charts
- Importing information from other applications
- Exporting slides to other applications
Securing and sharing presentations
- Inserting, reading, editing and deleting comments
- Using the comment text in the presentation
- The Document Inspector
- Packaging a presentation for CD
Setting up a laptop computer and screen projector
To request further details of any of our courses, or to make a booking, please contact us by ringing 01747 820396 or 07477 578417 or by sending an email to info@archwayct.co.uk or filling in our contact form.
Dorset PowerPoint training locations include:
| Bournemouth | Poole | Sherborne | Shaftesbury |
| Gillingham | Christchurch | Ferndown | Wimborne |
| Blandford Forum | Dorchester | Weymouth | Verwood |
| Merley | Wareham | Bridport | Lulworth |
| St Leonards |
Wiltshire PowerPoint training locations include:
| Salisbury | Swindon | Trowbridge | Chippenham |
| Devizes | Marlborough | Warminster | Tisbury |
| Melksham | Westbury | Corsham | Amesbury |
| Tidworth | Bradford-on-Avon | Bulford Camp | Porton |
| Calne | Highworth | Wootton Bassett | Wroughton |
| Malmesbury |
Hampshire PowerPoint training locations include:
| Ringwood | Fordingbridge | Winchester | Southampton |
| Basingstoke | Portsmouth | Petersfield | Havant |
| Gosport | Eastleigh | Fleet | Alton |
| Farnborough | Andover | Aldershot | Horndean |
| Fareham | Totton | Hedge End | Stubbington |
| Hythe | New Milton | Emsworth | Romsey |
| Bordon | Tadley | South Hayling | Lymington |
| Yateley | Blackfield | Hook | Blackwater |
| Bursledon | North Baddesley | Liphook | Netley |
| Bishop’s Waltham | Liss | Marchwood | Denmead |
| New Alresford |
Somerset PowerPoint training locations include:
| Bath | Yeovil | Wincanton | Frome |
| Taunton | Weston-Super-Mare | Midsomer Norton | Shepton Mallet |
| Radstock | Paulton | Bridgwater | Burnham-on-Sea |
| Chard | Cheddar | Clevedon | Crewkerne |
| Glastonbury |