Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Intermediate Level Training Course

PHOTO ALBUMS

• 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

MEDIA CLIPS

• 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 the sound clip icon
• Using a picture instead of the sound icon within a slide
• Inserting a movie clip
• Playing the movie full screen

TABLES

• 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

SLIDE SHOW ANIMATION EFFECTS

• What are animation effects?
• Applying animation effects to text
• Applying animation effects to illustrations
• Custom animation
• Changing the sequence of animation within a slide

SLIDE SHOW MANIPULATION

• Inserting Action Buttons
• Setting Mouse over properties
• Practicing 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 AND SLIDE MASTERS

• 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

SLIDE MANIPULATION

• 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

MANIPULATING ILLUSTRATIONS

• 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

SHAPE FORMATTING

• 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

PICTURE FORMATTING

• 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 grayscale format
• Saving a picture using a specific file format
• Changing the colour depth of a picture

CHARTS AND FLOW CHARTS

• 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 OBJECTS

• 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

PRESENTATION PLANNING AND DESIGN CONCEPTS

• 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