If you need to create a presentation for yourself or someone else then this is the place to start.

Presentations can be delivered on screen, via a video file or live over the web.

• Slide Design - Format your text and slide design
• Bullet Points -  use a variety of different bullet points and sub bullets points
• Shapes - Draw and adapt shapes, align, distribute and order them
• SmartArt diagrams - Create examples of diagrams such as an organisation chart
• Charts - Insert a chart onto slides
• Pictures, Videos,Sounds - Add interesting pictures, videos and sounds
• Animation and Transitions - Add some movement to your presentation
• Tips and Tricks

Getting Started

• Starting & exiting PowerPoint
• The PowerPoint screen
• Different Views 
• Slide/Outline Pane

Working with Text

• Selecting text and place holders
• Editing text
• Text  formatting
• Formatting the placeholder
• Format Painter
• Slide Background
• Creating Title slides
• Creating Bullet slides

Creating a Presentation

• Design templates
• Adding slides
• Deleting slides
• Slide layouts
• Saving presentations
• Opening presentations

Working with Shapes

• Drawing Shapes
• Resizing shapes
• Rotating shapes
• Positioning shapes
• Formatting shapes
• Copying shapes
• Deleting shapes
• Aligning shapes
• Distributing shapes
• Grouping shapes
• Connecting shapes
• Drawing freehand shapes

Tables

• Inserting a table
• Editing a table
• Using spreadsheet data
• Linking to a spreadsheet

Charts

• Creating a chart
• Chart types
• Formatting a chart
• Using spreadsheet data
• Linking to a spreadsheet 

SmartArt

• Inserting a SmartArt diagram
• Modifying a SmartArt diagram
• Creating an organisation chart

Pictures, Photographs, Video & Sounds 

• Adding pictures and using Picture Tools
• Adding video and using Video Tools
• Adding sound and using Sound Tools

Applying Transitions

• Changing how your slide moves from slide to slide

Animations

• Animating Bullets
• Animation Charts 
• Animating shapes and pictures

Printing 

• Adding a slide footer
• Printing handouts 

Running a Slide Show

• Connecting laptop to projector
• Moving forward in the presentation

The course runs from 9:30am through to 4:30pm. Refreshments are available from 9am.

We provide:

• Full course material
• Certificate of attendance
• 90 days post course support
• Note pad and pen
• Polos!

Also includes:

• Free on-site parking
• Refreshments throughout the day
• Lunch at a local restaurant
• Free WiFi

Our Norwich on-site parking (NR3 1UB) is free and situated 5 minutes walk along the river to our training centre at St James Mill. If you arrive by train it is about 20 minutes on the Riverside walk or a short taxi ride to get to us. View full directions for Norwich and all our other venues.

You will learn in a relaxed environment with a small group of up to 8 people. A specialist tutor will guide and encourage you through all the learning necessary to develop your skills and questions are always welcome.

• PowerPoint Advanced
• Presentation Skills
• Train the Trainer