PowerPoint 2007 Advanced Course

Powerpoint Efficiency & Presentation Skills

We begin the training by going over a number of PowerPoint features and tools that ensure quality and efficiency as you work with large numbers of slides and multiple slide shows - practical skills you can take back to your desk and apply right away. You will learn how to:

• Work efficiently across slide shows to copy slides and merge presentations
• Create custom slide shows from a subset groups of slides
• Avoid embarrassing mistakes by refining your spell-checking and AutoCorrect settings
• Master the slide viewer and present your slides with confidence

Integrating Data with Links and Embedded Objects

Expand your PowerPoint horizon and find out how you can integrate material from all your Microsoft Office programs into your presentations. For example, instead of manually recreating charts and financial numbers, you can link directly to your Excel data. In this part of the advanced PowerPoint training class, you will learn shortcuts like how to:

• Create slides from a Word outline
• Instantly generate a photo Album from a folder of photos
• Link and embed files such as Excel worksheets, web pages, and more
• Use PowerPoint as a portal to your other documents with hyperlinks
• Add built-in buttons to navigate your slides, play a sound, or run a program as part of your presentation

Finishing a Powerpoint Presentation

In this unit, you’ll learn techniques for adding that final polish to your presentations and ensure problem-free distribution and sharing of your slideshows. Make sure you know how to:

• Use the Document Inspector to check for unwanted information before distributing a sensitive document
• Add comments and notes to communicate with colleagues
• Confidently publish, fax, print, or share a final presentation with others

Adding Voice Narration in Powerpoint

PowerPoint 2007 includes extensive support for adding the power of voice-over to a slideshow. Our certified instructors will show you how to set up your presentation to speak for you by recording, linking or embedding voice narrations. In this section of the PowerPoint training class, you will learn techniques for how to:

• Create a self-running slideshow display for a lobby or event kiosk, with or without a voice track
• Decide between linking or embedding a voice narration
• Employ Office Diagnostics to troubleshoot and repair any program or installation problems
• Quickly find slides with targeted searches

Using Slide Masters within Powerpoint

One of the most powerful tools in your time-saving arsenal, slide masters make it possible for you to centrally control your slide text formats, bullets, backgrounds, and colors. Once you fully get the knack of using this powerful feature, you will reduce your frustration levels, increase your productivity - and set yourself apart from the pack. Let our expert PowerPoint instructors show you how to:

• Set up images, colors, text formatting, and backgrounds as part of a slide master
• Achieve a consistent look and feel, and easily make global changes
• Boost your confidence with speaker notes
• Add value for your audience with hand-outs to complement your presentation content

Prerequisites:

• A strong understanding of Microsoft Windows file management, the concepts of right-clicking and object property selection
• Successful completion of our Intermediate PowerPoint class or equivalent experience

Advanced 2007 Powerpoint courses are offered at four locations::

• Powerpoint course San Francisco
  
• Powerpoint course Los Angeles
  
• Powerpoint course San Jose
• Powerpoint course Sacramento