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ECDL Syllabus 5 - Module Six
The European Computer Driving Licence

FIRST STEPS WITH PRESENTATIONS

• 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 PRESENTATION

• Creating a new presentation
• Inserting a new slide
• Good Practice when creating slide content
• Undo and Redo
• Saving a presentation
• Saving a presentation using a different name

MANIPULATING SLIDES

• 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

THEMES

• Applying a theme to a presentation

TEXT BOXES (PLACEHOLDERS)

• What are Text Boxes (Placeholders)?
• Resizing a Text Box (Placeholder)
• Moving a Text Box (Placeholder)

SELECTING, COPYING MOVING, RESIZING AND DELETING TEXT

• 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

SEARCHING YOUR PRESENTATION

• Using Find
• Using Replace

FONT FORMATTING

• 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

PARAGRAPH FORMATTING

• Text alignment
• Columns
• Modifying bullet point formatting
• Using numbering instead of bullet points
• Changing the list level
• Indenting bulleted text
• Line spacing vs. paragraph spacing
• Line spacing
• Paragraph spacing
• Using Outline view
• PowerPoint Presenter Notes
• Text direction
• Text alignment within a Text Box (placeholder)
• Text AutoFit
• Using the Format Painter

TABLES

• Table selection techniques
• Column selection
• Row selection
• Entire table selection
• Creating 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
• Modifying column width and row height
• Distributing rows and columns

SELECTING, COPYING MOVING, RESIZING AND DELETING ILLUSTRATIONS

• 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

• Inserting Illustrations within PowerPoint
• Inserting pictures
• Inserting Clip Art
• Inserting Shapes
• Inserting text into a shape
• Inserting perfect circles or perfect squares
• Inserting a line
• Inserting a drawn line
• Inserting an arrow
• Inserting a text box
• Inserting SmartArt
• Inserting Charts

FORMATTING SHAPES

• 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 graphics relative to each other or relative to the slide
• Aligning shapes relative to the left of a slide
• Aligning shapes relative to the center of a slide
• Aligning shapes relative to the right of a slide
• Aligning shapes relative to the top of a slide
• Aligning shapes relative to the bottom of a slide
• Grouping and ungrouping objects

FORMATTING CHARTS

• Changing the chart type
• Changing the background colour in the chart
• Changing the column, bar, line or pie slice colours in the chart
• Chart title manipulation
• Adding data labels to a chart

ORGANISATION CHARTS

• 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, COPYING AND DELETING SLIDES

• 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

SLIDE MASTERS

• What is a slide master?
• Inserting a picture (clipart) into a master slide
• Inserting an image (from a file) into a master slide
• Inserting a drawn object (shape) into a master slide
• Removing a graphic from a master slide
• Creating a footer
• Automatic slide numbering

SLIDE SHOWS

• Running a slide show
• Slide show transition effects
• Slide show animation effects
• Modifying slide show animation effects
• Hiding slides
• isplaying hidden slides

PRINTING AND PROOFING

• Spell-checking
• Using Portrait or Landscape slide orientation
• Selecting your output format
• Visually inspect each slide before printing
• Printing a presentation

CUSTOMISING AND COMPATIBILITY ISSUES

• Modifying PowerPoint options
• Compatibility issues when saving a presentation
• Other file types you can use for saving a presentation
• Saving a presentation as a template
• Creating a new presentation based on a customised template