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Elstree Film Studios - Training Courses - Microsoft PowerPoint Training Course

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 is the perfect tool for sales and marketing presenters and speakers; sales, marketing, accounts, in fact anytime anybody is asked to give facts and figures in a presentation, the proven way to make the message stick is with PowerPoint. Learn all the timesaving tips and tricks from the experts at 21biz.co.uk.

Presenting is all about making sure your audience clearly understands your message; without this basic pre-requisite you will lose all interest and buy in for whatever it is you are teaching, selling or communicating. Because it's a fact that we retain less than 70% of the information we received only 24 hours earlier it is imperative that the presenter drives home the most important facts and figures, features and benefits so that we sit up, listen and take note. One sure-fire way of getting this done is to visualise your message; why do advertisers spend so much just to deliver their message do you think?

PowerPoint from Microsoft is the most popular tool for developing and pitching your presentations thanks to its ability to present your message in slide format with animations, charts, graphs and all that lovely visual stuff that our brain likes to take in, ensuring your target group are wide awake and focussed. Having said this, PowerPoint itself won't do all of the hard work for you. Just as bad as having no visual at all, is having poor visuals; and you'd be surprised at how often this ruins the most interesting of talks.

Our PowerPoint 2007 course will ensure you are able to prepare and present your patter, teaching you in a practical way how to grab and hold the attention of your audience using exciting graphics, colourful displays and graphs and charts which can breathe life into even the dullest of topics. PowerPoint offers a way for your audience to shift focus away from you and your style and onto the explosive content of your on-screen narrative, a great set of well prepared and aptly timed slides will do more convincing than you possibly could without them. It's proven that not only do we retain more information from an effective presentation, we're more likely to act upon that information, so having a message that not only informs, but entertains, can be the difference between success and failure.

If you're a presenter, salesman, teacher, trainer or anybody who regularly gives speeches or presentations of any kind, this course is designed to teach you how to gain maximum effect and impact from your PowerPoint presentations. The Complete Microsoft PowerPoint course will guide you through all the software has to offer, from creating and animating your slides, adding charts and graphs, through to timing and delivering your presentation.

Duration: 1 day.

Prerequisites: To gain the most from this class, it is essential that you are familiar with Windows, including creating, deleting and moving files and folders. You must be comfortable using a keyboard and mouse.

Location: 21st Century New Media Ltd (Production Offices), Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [Click here for a map]

Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.

Courseware: The book which accompanies this course is posted to you upon payment confirmation.

Accommodation & Transport: Details of local accomodation and transport can be found here.

Further assistance: Our FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call 0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.

COURSE CONTENT

Screen Layout

• Title & Menu Bars
• Toolbars

Creating a Presentation

• Creating/Saving a New Presentation
• Entering & editing Text
• Slide Layouts - Title Slide, Bulleted List, Two Column Text

Formatting a Presentation

• Selecting & formatting text
• Formatting Backgrounds
• Formatting Numbered and Bulleted Lists
• Slide Master

PowerPoint Views

• Normal, Slide Sorter, Outline
• Notes Pages & Slide Show View
• View in Black and White
• Viewing Slide Miniature
• Print Preview

Working with Slide Sorter View

• Using Presentation Slide Sorter View
• Deleting Slides
• Moving and copying slides within the same presentation
• Moving and copying slides between different presentations
• Moving quickly between views

Drawing Skills

• The Drawing Toolbar
• Aligning & Distributing Objects
• Flipping and Rotating
• Ordering and grouping Objects
• Inserting and formatting text within a shape
• Inserting WordArt

Working with Clipart

• Inserting Clip Art
• Moving, Resizing and Re-colouring
• Grouping and Ungrouping Clip Art

Tables

• Create a table
• Adding text, Inserting columns and rows
• Enhancing a table with formatting

Charts

• Create a chart
• Editing the Chart Type & Options

Slide Masters & Templates

• Viewing the Slide Master
• Adding a company logo to every slide
• Formatting the background
• Colour Schemes
• Format Title Area and Object Area
• Adding Headers & Footers
• Applying Design Templates
• Creating your own design Template

Preparing a Slide Show

• Rehearsing the timing of a Presentation
• Controls to use during slide shows
• Slide Navigator, Hiding Slides

Printing

• Print Preview
• Printing Handouts, Notes Pages

Microsoft PowerPoint Training Courses
Date	Days	Total (Excl VAT)
September 2009
19/9/09	1	250

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