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Computing Workshop Descriptions - PowerPoint

• Basics
• Enhancing a Presentation
• Customizing a Presentation

PowerPoint: The Basics

PowerPoint is designed for creating presentations that can be used in delivering lectures, workshops and informational presentations. This workshop will teach participants with little or no experience in PowerPoint how to create and deliver a finished presentation by incorporating images and simple slide transitions.

Participants will:

• Create a presentation using a Design Template
• Rearrange and delete slides
• Apply different layouts
• Insert existing slides into a presentation
• Work with text and bullets
• Insert clip art and pictures
• Apply transition effects
• Create audience and presenter handouts
• Rehearse and deliver a presentation

Participants should already be able to:

• use a mouse
• work with command menus
• save and organize files
• use basic features of Microsoft Word

PowerPoint: Enhancing a Presentation

In this workshop, participants will learn how to enhance an already existing presentation using PowerPoint’s intermediate to advanced features. Intended for users with basic PowerPoint skills who want to learn how to design more visually appealing presentations, this workshop will teach participants how to integrate PowerPoint with other applications and how to apply sophisticated effects in PowerPoint.
Note: If you have previously attended the 3 hour version of PowerPoint: The Basics (which was offered through spring 2006), this workshop covers many of the same concepts which were covered in the second half of that workshop.

Participants will:

• Import an outline from Microsoft Word
• Work with color schemes and customized backgrounds
• Link documents to slides
• Create hyperlinks and action buttons
• Create and modify shapes using the Drawing toolbar
• Insert WordArt
• Download animated GIF images
• Insert and play sound files
• Apply customized animation to text and objects
• Package the presentation for the road

Participants should already be able to:

• Create and deliver a basic presentation
• Apply simple layouts and transition effects
• Insert images
• Save and print a presentation

PowerPoint: Customizing a Presentation

In this workshop, participants will learn how to customize slide shows by using master slides, triggers, hyperlinks, and action buttons. Intended for users who frequently use PowerPoint and who want to learn how to quickly change the appearance and structure of a presentation to meet the needs of different audiences.

Participants will:

• Customize a slide show for different audiences
• Create slide masters
• Create customized backgrounds
• Create hyperlinks to websites, documents, and slides
• Use action buttons to navigate a presentation
• Create triggers to increase interactivity
• Add music to a presentation
• Configure a presentation to loop automatically

Participants should already be able to:

• Use design templates and apply slide layouts
• Apply transition effects and customized animations
• Insert clip art and pictures
• Link documents to slides
• Rehearse and deliver a presentation