PowerPoint 2010 Tips, Tools, and Timesavers

Course Length

Three hours

Prerequisites

PowerPoint 2010 Introduction or equivalent experience

Course Description

This class is for the PowerPoint user who wants to learn how to make presentations more effective. Over 50 valuable PowerPoint tips, tools, and timesavers will be covered along with general presentation guidelines.

Course Topics

  • Select a placeholder
  • Ungroup clip art
  • Add an object to the Microsoft Clip Organizer
  • Search for a clip using a keyword
  • Resize panes in Normal view
  • Enlarge or reduce text in increments
  • Insert a symbol into a presentation
  • Select nonadjacent text
  • Use text effects
  • Animate the entrance of multi-level bullets
  • Create a new slide with the same layout
  • Move an object in small increments
  • Insert a picture in a shape
  • Apply a motion path to text or an object
  • Resize or move a motion path
  • Display a picture in a chart element
  • Stack a picture in a chart element
  • Create a slide watermark from a picture
  • Add a custom slide border
  • Replace fonts in a presentation
  • Create a bulleted list using text from a Word document
  • Toggle text case
  • Create slides from a Word document
  • Draw a shape multiple times
  • Create evenly spaced duplicates of an object
  • Create a mirror image
  • Select an object concealed behind another object
  • Create picture bullets
  • Create a SmartArt diagram from text
  • Inspect and remove hidden data and personal information
  • Run a slide show using keystrokes
  • Show the slide number and total number of slides on every slide
  • Add special slide numbering
  • View slide show in a separate window
  • Turn the mouse into a laser pointer
  • Write on slides during a slide show
  • Pause a slide show
  • Quickly move to the beginning, end, or specific slide during a slide show
  • Remove the black slide at the end of a slide show
  • Hide a slide
  • Quickly access the Set Up Show dialog box
  • Create and print a custom show
  • Run a custom show by default
  • Advance slides automatically and on mouse click
  • Create custom handout pages in Word
  • Set password(s) for a presentation
  • Customize the recently used file list
  • Pin a file in the “Recent Presentations” list
  • Quickly access recent presentations
  • Run a slide show outside of PowerPoint
  • Discuss guidelines for text, graphics, animation, color, font, charts, slides, and presentation delivery

What Participants Receive

Each participant receives a guide containing step-by-step instructions and practice exercises.