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21biz.co.uk - Complete Microsoft PowerPoint - Scheduled Course

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.

The Complete PowerPoint 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, so you don't have to be a Steve Jobs of your industry, so long as you can hold your conversation, 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.

All of 21biz.co.uk's training courses are delivered in small groups by industry leading experts offering course content (below) alongside tailored advice, best practice, hints and tips on how to make the most of the software for your specific personal needs.

Duration: 1 day.

Location: 21st Century New Media (Production Offices), Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire WD6 1JG. [MAP]

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.

Why Take This Course? 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.

About the Tutor: With nearly 2 decades of experience performing IT training Lesley Keddy is a first choice tutor, particularly when you need to learn MS Office thoroughly and promptly. Starting her career with AES/XIOS Systems before training at Uxbridge Technical College for her City & Guilds Further Education Certificate, Lesley set up shop as a freelance trainer and swiftly gained recognition. Now armed with 18 years experience, knowledge and insight of the applications she teaches through her own company Abacus Computer Training, Lesley is hired regularly by major blue-chips to perform seminars and training; clients such as BP, Nestle, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Michael Shanly Construction, and Ammariti Puris Lintas to name but a few, have all relied on Lesley to bring staff quickly up to a professional standard using Office applications. Lesley has been invited back on several occasions to speak and teach at her former college and is sought after by all of the leading Microsoft training companies in the UK - including 21st Century New Media, thanks to her impeccable reputation and testimonies.

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 and Selecting Placeholders
• 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
• Working with Guides
• Working with the Visible Grid
• 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

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