Microsoft PowerPoint – Essentials & Presentation Skills
Overview
So many fail at effectively delivering a presentation either because their technical mastery of the subject is not matched by their presentation skill or the presenter falls short because of his/her poorly, assembled and boring presentation slides. This programme combines two of the most potent ingredients to ensure effective presentation:
- PowerPoint Essentials programme
- Presentation Skills programme
Objectives
At the end of the PowerPoint Essentials programme, participants should be able to use PowerPoint to generate different types of multimedia (audio and video) that can be added to enhance their presentations, review and edit presentations; build Slide Masters; use themes and backgrounds; transitions; animations; all types of graphics (including shapes, tables, charts, SmartArt, pictures, Clip Art, photo albums, and screenshots); and an overview of some exciting new photo editing tools.
The Presentation Skills programme is designed to help participants: Overcome fear and anxiety and present with confidence; Deliver presentations more successfully; and Excel at every presenting opportunity. At the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
- Determine audience attitudes and needs.
- Overcome nervousness, anxiety, and any distracting mannerisms.
- Structure presentations to gain maximum effect.
- Present both technical and non-technical information clearly, concisely, and persuasively.
- Enhance voice projection, articulation, pace and fluency.
- Use body language (posture, eye contact, and gestures) effectively.
- Use ordinary and high-tech media effectively.
- Project, control and confidence.
- Plan and develop complete, formalized product presentations around the market forces that affect business.
- Use audience involvement techniques to identify and handle questions.
- Set up an on-going action plan to improve future presentations.
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Beginner
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27 Hours
GHC 500
Per Participant
Content
PowerPoint Essentials
- Opening PowerPoint
- Opening a presentation
- Navigating between slides
- Using the Zoom tool
- Changing PowerPoint views
- Using Help
- Saving a presentation
- Closing a presentation
- Closing PowerPoint
- Opening multiple presentations
- Switching between multiple presentations
- Creating a new presentation
- Inserting a new slide
- Undo and Redo
- Saving a presentation
- Saving a presentation using a different name
- Inserting slides with a particular slide layout
- Modifying the slide layout
- Changing the background colour on the active slide
- Changing background colour on all the slides within a presentation
- Applying a theme to a presentation
- What are Text Boxes (Placeholders)?
- Resizing a Text Box (Placeholder)
- Moving a Text Box (Placeholder)
- Compatibility issues when saving a presentation
- Selecting text
- Moving text within a slide
- Moving text between slides within a presentation or between presentations
- Copying text within a slide
- Copying text between slides within a presentation or between presentations
- Deleting text
- Font formatting options
- Changing the font type
- Changing font size
- Increasing or decreasing the font size
- Bold, Italic or Underline formatting
- Strikethrough effects
- Shadow effects
- Character spacing
- Changing case
- Font colour
- Clearing all text formatting
- Text alignment
- Columns
- Modifying bullet point formatting
- Using numbering instead of bullet points
- Changing the list level
- Line spacing
- Using Outline view
- PowerPoint Notes
- Text direction
- Text alignment within a Text Box (placeholder)
- Text Autofit
- Using the Format Painter
- Selecting an illustration
- Moving an illustration
- Copying an illustration
- Deleting an illustration
- Resizing an illustration
- Stretching an illustration
- Copying illustrations between presentations
- Moving illustrations between presentations
- Inserting Illustrations within PowerPoint
- Inserting pictures
- Inserting Clip Art
- Inserting Shapes
- Inserting text into a shape
- Inserting perfect circles or perfect squares
- Inserting SmartArt
- Inserting Charts
- Formatting the shape background fill colour style
- Formatting the shape line weight and style
- Formatting the shape line colour
- Applying a shadow to an illustration
- Modifying arrow line shapes and size
- Rotating or flipping an illustration
- Rotating illustrations by dragging with the mouse
- Layering illustrations to the front or back
- Aligning illustrations vertically
- Aligning illustrations horizontally
- Changing the chart type
- Changing the background colour in the chart
- Changing the column, bar, line or pie slice colours in the chart
- What is an organisation chart?
- Creating an organisation chart
- Adding labels to items within an organisation chart
- Adding a co-worker to an organisation chart
- Adding a subordinates within an organisation chart
- Adding a manager within an organisation chart
- Removing an item from an organisation chart
- Moving slides within a presentation or between presentations
- Copying slides within a presentation
- Deleting a slide or slides
- Copying slides between presentations
- Moving slides between presentations
- Running a slide show
- Slide show transition effects
- Slide show animation effects
- Spell-checking
- Using Portrait or Landscape slide orientation
- Selecting your output format
- Visually inspect each slide before printing
- Printing a presentation
- Modifying PowerPoint options
- What is a PowerPoint Photo Album?
- Creating a Photo Album
- Reordering the picture sequence
- Rotating images within the Photo Album
- Modifying the picture layout
- Modify the frame shape
- Applying a theme to the Photo Album.
- Displaying your pictures in Black and White
- Adding captions to each picture
- Adjusting picture contrast and brightness
- Supported media file formats
- Inserting a sound clip
- Modifying the sound clip volume level
- Controlling when the sound is played within a media clip
- Hiding a sound clip icon
- Using a picture instead of the sound icon within a slide
- Inserting a movie clip
- Playing the movie full screen
- Inserting a table
- Applying a style to a table
- Cell background shading
- Adding table effects
- Adding “Quick Styles” to selected text
- Applying borders to cells
- Deleting rows or columns
- Inserting rows or columns
- What are animation effects?
- Applying animation effects to text
- Applying animation effects to illustrations
- Custom animation
- Changing the sequence of animation within a slide
- Inserting Action Buttons
- Setting Mouse over properties
- Practising slide timings
- Using slide timings
- Slide show looping options
- Hiding slides
- Displaying hidden slides
- Annotating slide shows
- Creating a custom slide show
- Editing a custom slide show
- Running custom slide shows
- Templates, Slide Masters and Themes
- Creating and saving a template
- Modifying a Slide Master
- Creating footers and inserting the date
- Handout and Notes Masters
- Modifying the Handout Master
- Modifying the Notes Master
- Merging slides or complete presentations
- Merging a word-processed outline into a presentation
- Applying graduated background fill colours, texture & patterns
- Saving a slide in gif, jpeg or bmp format
- Moving a graphic backwards or forwards
- Grouping and ungrouping objects
- Positioning a graphic relative to the slide
- Distributing selected graphics horizontally, vertically relative to a slide
- Converting a picture to a drawn object
- Controlling the display of background pictures on a slide
- Applying shape effects
- Applying (& repositioning) a shadow (of a specified colour) to a graphic
- Applying graduated background effects to a drawn object
- Applying a semi-transparent effect to a graphic
- Applying 3-D effects to a drawn object
- Further Shape style formatting options
- Using the Format Painter to apply styles to objects
- Applying picture styles
- Modifying contrast and brightness
- Re-colouring pictures
- Cropping a picture
- Re-scaling and rotating a picture
- Resetting the image size
- Rotating and flipping pictures
- Setting picture shape
- Converting a picture to a greyscale format
- Saving a picture using a specific file format
- Changing the colour depth of a picture
- Creating a chart
- Changing the chart type
- Applying chart styles and layouts
- Creating a line-column on two axes / mixed chart
- Formatting the vertical axis
- Drawing a flowchart using built-in flowchart options
- Changing or deleting flowchart shapes within a flowchart
- Changing connector types between flowchart shapes
- Linking an Excel chart into a PowerPoint presentation
- Updating a linked object
- Editing linked data within a presentation
- Converting a linked object within a slide to an embedded object
- Linking a picture from a file
- Planning the right presentation for the right environment
- Physical issues leading to a successful presentation
- Design considerations
- Matching the presentation to an audience
- Colour issues within a presentation
- Using a storyboard and time-line
- Show the Mini Toolbar on selection
- Enabling Live Preview
- Showing the Developer tab on Ribbon
- Always use ClearType
- Colour Scheme
- Customising the ScreenTip Style
- Personalising your copy of Microsoft Office
- Language Settings
- Viewing properties within a Presentation
- Editing properties
- Marking a presentation as the final version
- Creating Microsoft Word formatted handouts
- What is the PowerPoint Viewer?
- Downloading the PowerPoint Viewer
- Saving a presentation in HTML format
- Publishing a presentation to the web
- Changing the web page title
- Setting Web options
- Customising colours
- Setting browser compatibility options
- Setting the screen resolution
- Adding comments
- Navigating between comments
- Editing comments
- Deleting comments
- Hiding comments
- Using a microphone
- Setting microphone levels for your narration
- Recording narrations
- Turing off narrations
- Deleting narrations
- Modifying narration quality
- Inserting hyperlinks
- Using Hyperlinks
- Adding a ‘Home’ link
- Inserting a hyperlink pointing to a web site
- Removing hyperlinks
Presentation Skills
- The Importance of Communication Skills
- Overcoming Communication Barriers
- Overcoming Fear, Anxiety and Nervousness
- Building Self-Confidence
- The Art of Conversation
- Body Language
- Planning your Presentation
- Mastering Delivery
- Technical Presentations including Sales Presentations
- Using Visual Aids
- Using the Speaking Voice
Course Reviews
Facilitator(s)
Richard Lamptey
Richard Odartey Lamptey has worked in the private sector for a period spanning over eight (8) years. He has consulted...