PowerPoint 2007, Advanced
As a Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 user familiar with the basics, you're able to convey information clearly without much glitz. That's okay, but you can do better—audiences expect more than the basics. In this course, you will enhance presentations with features that will transform basic presentations into those with a powerful means of communication.
Audience
The target student for this course should be comfortable using a personal computer and Microsoft Windows XP. Students also need to know the basics of using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. Students will get the most out of this course if their goal is to become proficient using PowerPoint’s advanced features to create enhanced presentations.
Students taking this course should be familiar with personal computers and the use of a keyboard and a mouse. Furthermore, this course assumes that students have completed the PowerPoint 2007: Basic course of have equivalent experience.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Customize the Quick Access toolbar; create and apply a custom design theme; create a custom template and apply it to a new presentation; and modify a presentation by creating duplicate slider masters, editing a title master, applying different slide masters, and renaming a slider master.
- Modify a clip art image by cropping it and changing its color scheme; add sound and movie clips to a presentation; apply animation effects to slide elements; and create a photo album presentation to display photographs.
- Format an IGX Graphic by making changes to associate objects, and create a custom table by drawing a table and formatting it.
- Add interactive elements to a slide by adding action buttons and modifying them, and create customized slide shows by using the Custom Shows dialog box.
- Review a presentation by using Comments; prepare to share a presentation by using the commands in the File, Prepare menu; share a presentation by using the commands in the File, Publish menu; and save a presentation as a Web page.
- Create a presentation by using a Word outline; add content to a slide by embedding or linking content from a Word document or an Excel worksheet; and create a link on a slide to other content by creating a hyperlink to a Word document or an Excel worksheet.
- CertBlaster preparation and materials also included.
- Unit 1: Custom presentation options
- Unit 2: Graphic and multimedia content
- Unit 3: Customizing SmartArt graphics and tables
- Unit 4: Action buttons and custom slides shows
- Unit 5: Distributing a presentation
- Unit 6: Integrating Microsoft Office files
In order for a class to be successful, all students should share the same general level
of knowledge and experience. If a participant does not demonstrate these, the instructor will take
the necessary steps either to prepare the participant or place him/her in a more appropriate course.
This policy is intended to maintain the high level of quality control that you have come to expect.