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PowerPoint Essentials

PowerPoint Essentials

Participants will learn to create, edit, and enhance slideshow presentations to create professional-looking sales presentations, employee training, instructional materials, and kiosk slideshows. Learners will gain a fundamental understanding of the PowerPoint environment and the correct use of key features of this application.

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Everything you need to teach a one-day workshop for PowerPoint Essentials:

  • Training Manuals
  • PowerPoint Slides
  • Instructor's Guide
  • Quick Reference Job Aids
  • Icebreakers, Activities,
     & Exercise Files
  • Pre-Assignments,
    Pre-/Post-Assessments
  • Promotional Advertorials
  • Lesson Plans with Flip Chart Notes


Also available: e-learning, and cloud-based LMS.

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PowerPoint Essentials Course Outline:

Module One: Create and manage presentations
  • Create a presentation
    • Create a new presentation
    • Create a presentation based on a template
    • Import Word document outlines
  • Insert and format slides
    • Insert specific slide layouts
    • Duplicate existing slides
    • Hide and unhide slides
    • Delete slides
    • Apply a different slide layout
    • Modify individual slide backgrounds
    • Insert slide headers, footers, and page numbers
  • Modify slides, handouts, and notes
    • Change the slide master theme or background
    • Modify slide master content
    • Create a slide layout
    • Modify a slide layout
    • Modify the handout master
    • Modify the notes master
  • Order and group slides
    • Create sections
    • Modify slide order
    • Rename sections
  • Change presentation options and views
    • Change slide size
    • Change views of a presentation
    • Set file properties
  • Configure a presentation for print
    • Print all or part of a presentation
    • Print notes pages; print handouts
    • Print in color, gray scale, or black and white
  • Configure and present a slide show
    • Create custom slide shows
    • Configure slide show options
    • Rehearse slide show timing
    • Present a slide show by using Presenter View


Module Two: Insert and Format Text, Shapes, and Images
  • Insert and format text
    • Insert text on a slide
    • Apply formatting and styles to text
    • Apply WordArt styles to text
    • Format text in multiple columns
    • Create bulleted and numbered lists
    • Insert hyperlinks
  • Insert and Format Shapes and Text Boxes
    • Insert or replace shapes
    • Insert text boxes, resize shapes and text boxes
    • Format shapes and text boxes
    • Apply styles to shapes and text boxes
  • Insert and format images
    • Insert images
    • Resize and crop images
    • Apply styles and effects
  • Order and group objects
    • Order objects
    • Align objects
    • Group objects
    • Display alignment tools


Module Three: Insert Tables, Charts, SmartArt, and Media
  • Insert and Format Tables
    • Create a table
    • Insert and delete table rows and columns
      • Apply table styles
    • Import a table
  • Insert and Format Charts
    • Create a chart
    • Import a chart
    • Change the Chart Type
    • Add a legend to a chart
    • Change the chart style of a chart
  • Insert and Format SmartArt Graphics
    • Create SmartArt graphics
    • Convert lists to SmartArt graphics
    • Add shapes to SmartArt graphics
    • Reorder shapes in SmartArt graphics
    • Change the color of SmartArt graphics
  • Insert and manage media
    • Insert audio and video clips
    • Configure media playback options
    • Adjust media window size
    • Set the video start and stop time
    • Set media timing options

 


Module Four: Apply transitions and animations

  • Apply slide transitions
    • Insert Slide Transitions
    • Set transition effect options
  • Animate Slide Content
    • Apply animations to objects
    • Apply animations to text
    • Set animation effect options
    • Set animation paths
  • Set Timing for Transitions and Animations
    • Set transition effect duration
    • Configure transition start and finish options
    • Reorder animations on a slide

 


Module Five: Manage Multiple Presentations

  • Merge Content From Multiple Presentations
    • Insert slides from another presentation
    • compare two presentations
    • insert comments, review comments
  • Finalize Presentations
    • Protect a presentation
    • Inspect a presentation
    • Proof a presentation
    • Preserve presentation content
    • Export presentations to other formats

Other Course Kit's Available:

  1. Accountability in the Workplace
  2. Administrative Office Procedures
  3. Administrative Support
  4. Adult Learning - Mental Skills
  5. Adult Learning - Physical Skills
  6. Anger Management
  7. Appreciative Inquiry
  8. Archiving and Records Management
  9. Attention Management
  10. Basic Bookkeeping
  11. Being a Likeable Boss
  12. Body Language Basics
  13. Budgets and Financial Reports
  14. Building Confidence and Assertiveness
  15. Business Acumen
  16. Business Ethics
  17. Business Etiquette
  18. Business Succession Planning
  19. Business Writing
  20. Call Center Training
  21. Change Management
  22. Civility in the Workplace
  23. Coaching and Mentoring
  24. Coaching Salespeople
  25. Collaborative Business Writing
  26. Communication Strategies
  27. Conducting Annual Employee Reviews
  28. Conflict Resolution
  29. Contact Center Training
  30. Contract Management
  31. Creating a Great Webinar
  32. Creative Problem Solving
  33. Creativity: Thinking Outside the Box
  34. Crisis Management
  35. Critical Thinking
  36. Customer Service
  37. Customer Support
  38. Cyber Security
  39. Delivering Constructive Criticism
  40. Developing a Lunch and Learn
  41. Developing Corporate Behavior
  42. Developing Creativity
  43. Developing Emotional Intelligence
  44. Developing New Managers
  45. Digital Citizenship
  46. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  47. Employee Motivation
  48. Employee Onboarding
  49. Employee Recognition
  50. Employee Recruitment
  51. Employee Termination Processes
  52. Entrepreneurship
  53. Event Planning
  54. Executive and Personal Assistants
  55. Facilitation Skills
  56. Generation Gaps
  57. Goal Setting and Getting Things Done
  58. Handling a Difficult Customer
  59. Health and Wellness at Work
  60. High Performance Teams Inside the Company
  61. High Performance Teams Remote Workforce
  62. Hiring Strategies
  63. Human Resource Management
  64. Improving Mindfulness
  65. Improving Self-Awareness
  66. In Person Sales
  67. Increasing Your Happiness
  68. Internet Marketing Fundamentals
  69. Interpersonal Skills
  70. Job Search Skills
  71. Knowledge Management
  72. Leadership and Influence
  73. Leadership Development for Women
  74. Lean Process and Six Sigma
  75. Life Coaching Essentials
  76. Manager Management
  77. Managing Personal Finances
  78. Managing Workplace Anxiety
  79. Managing Workplace Harassment
  80. Marketing Basics
  81. Measuring Results From Training
  82. Media and Public Relations
  83. Meeting Management
  84. Middle Manager
  85. Millennial Onboarding
  86. mLearning Essentials
  87. Motivating Your Sales Team
  88. Multi-Level Marketing
  89. Negotiation Skills
  90. Networking Outside the Company
  91. Networking Within the Company
  92. Office Health and Safety
  93. Office Politics For Managers
  94. Organizational Skills
  95. Overcoming Sales Objections
  96. Performance Management
  97. Personal Branding
  98. Personal Productivity
  99. Presentation Skills
  100. Project Management
  101. Proposal Writing
  102. Prospecting and Lead Generation
  103. Public Speaking
  104. Respect in the Workplace
  105. Responsibility in the Workplace
  106. Risk Assessment and Management
  107. Safety in the Workplace
  108. Sales Fundamentals
  109. Self-Leadership
  110. Sensitivity Training
  111. Servant Leadership
  112. Social Intelligence
  113. Social Learning
  114. Social Media In The Workplace
  115. Social Media Marketing
  116. Stress Management
  117. Supervising Others
  118. Supply Chain Management
  119. Taking Initiative
  120. Talent Management
  121. Team Building For Managers
  122. Team Building Through Chemistry
  123. Teamwork and Team Building
  124. Telephone Etiquette
  125. Telework And Telecommuting
  126. Ten Soft Skills You Need
  127. The Cloud and Business
  128. Time Management
  129. Top 10 Sales Secrets
  130. Trade Show Staff Training
  131. Train-The-Trainer
  132. Trust Building and Resilience Development
  133. Unconscious Bias
  134. Universal Safety Practices
  135. Virtual Team Building and Management
  136. Work-Life Balance
  137. Workplace Bullying
  138. Workplace Harassment
  139. Workplace Violence