Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 - improvers

Get the most out of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 – it has more power to help you than you realise

Microsoft PowerPoint dominates modern business life, but most people use only a fraction of its power – maybe you’re one of them. Well, even if you regard computers as a necessary evil, this course will open your eyes to the many ways in which PowerPoint can actually make your working life a whole lot easier.

Is it for me?

If you have a working knowledge of PowerPoint 2007, and want to extend your skills further, this is the course for you.

What’s it all about?

Our workshops are effective because they are based on your real life problems – we expect you to bring all your PowerPoint baggage with you! Your learning from the day will stick with you because we use a range of activities, have lots of practice time, and encourage a large amount of questions.

Learning works best when learners can make their own discoveries, so you will have time to play with PowerPoint and perhaps have your own Eureka moment!

Our supportive and experienced trainers believe that the most important thing is to meet our learners’ personal objectives. However, to give you an idea of the type of skills you will learn, by the end of the course you should be able to:

• find your way around PowerPoint and its screens

• work with existing presentations

• create new presentations

• add new slides to a presentation

• use text appropriately in your PowerPoint presentations

• use themes to enhance your presentations

• manage and manipulate slides within a presentation and between presentations

• print your presentations in a variety of different formats

• run a slide show with or without animation or transition effects

• find the information you need in Help

Tell me more!

Word 2007 has so much to offer, that we can’t fit all of it into the workshop as there are 90 different possible topics. However, you will receive an indispensable folder of materials to keep on your desk which will include all the following topics:

Design considerations

• Planning a Presentation

• The Environment

• The Audience

• Style Guidelines

• Design and Layout

Charts

• Chart Types

• Creating a Chart

• Modifying the Chart Layout

• Adding Titles to a Chart

• Formatting the Axes

• Changing the Chart Style and Layout

• Editing and Selecting Chart Data

• Selecting Chart Elements

• Chart Formatting Options

• Formatting A Chart

• Changing Fill Colours

• Creating a Pie Chart

• Changing the Chart Type

• Manipulating Charts

Using effects

• How to Use Effects

• Setting a Transparent Colour

• Applying 3-D Effects to Objects

• Applying Shadow Effects to Objects

• Fill Effects

• Applying Colour Fill Effects

Working with pictures

• Pictures Overview

• Using a Picture Placeholder

• Using the Insert Tab to Insert a Picture

• Inserting a Picture from the Clip Art Pane

• The Selection and Visibility Pane

• Using the Selection and Visibility Pane

• The Format Picture Tab

• Recolouring a Picture

• Changing the Picture Style

• Rotating and Flipping

• Cropping a Picture

• Resizing a Picture

Working with SmartArt

• Understanding SmartArt

• Inserting SmartArt

• The SmartArt Text Pane

• Changing the SmartArt Style

• Changing The Colour of SmartArt Styles

• Changing the SmartArt Layout

• Adding a New Shape to a SmartArt Graphic

• The SmartArt Tools Format Tab

• Resizing and Moving SmartArt

Slide masters

• The Slide Master View

• Changing the Slide Master

• Slide Layouts

• Changing Slide Layouts

• Inserting Slide Layouts and Placeholders

• Multiple Slide Masters and Master Layouts

• Inserting a New Slide Master

• The Handout Master and Notes Master

• Saving a New Presentation Template

• Using a Presentation Template

Automating slide shows

• Understanding Hyperlinks

• Creating a Hyperlink

• Creating a Link to an External File

• Understanding Action Buttons

• Creating Action Buttons

• Adding an Action to an Existing Object

• Using Action Buttons During a Slide Show

• Working with Movie Clips

• Working with Sounds

• Adding Sounds to Your Presentation

• Adding a Movie Clip To Your Presentation

Questions, questions

Before you start the course we will send you a questionnaire to find out what you know already and what your expectations are for the course.

Venues

You can either come along to our state of the art computer lab, or if you would prefer we can come to your location.

A choice of delivery methods

We can offer a variety of delivery methods:

• One day workshops – either at our venue or bespoke at your venue

• 2 hour ‘bionic bursts’ (bespoke, focused, cost effective) at your venue

• At your desk training – we can work individually with up to 5 people at their desks during one day at your venue (highly bespoke & cost effective)

Your facilitator

Emma Konopka, your principal facilitator, has over 10 years teaching and training experience and experience of supporting clients in their use of a variety of professional research databases. With an MA in Information Studies, Emma combines her experience and knowledge with an engaging facilitator style.

Emma passionately believes in the power of collaboration and discovery in learning. Both of these help learners to learn more efficiently and retain more of the learning in the long term. Learners will be encouraged to play, experiment and work in groups. This accelerated learning style includes such techniques as:

• Problem-solving activities (wherever possible based on your real life problems)

• Collaborative group work

• Activities that engage the body as well as the mind (movement & physical activity help learning)

• Active encouragement of questions

• Lots of practice

Taster session

If you would like to get a taste of our one day workshops we can offer a free 1 hour trial at your offices. You will get to discuss your needs with Emma, you can choose any part of the workshop to see in action and preview the learning materials.

Name dropping

When you sign up for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 for improvers, you will be in good company:

“I just wanted to thank you for providing such a stimulating and thought-provoking course. I will certainly be implementing the tips and suggestions just as soon as I can. I returned to the office today with renewed vigour and cannot wait for the positive changes to start happening. You’re one smart cookie – keep doing what you’re doing, only good things can happen by taking the Today’s Pa training and I, for one, will spread the word!”

Hayley North - Microsoft

Below are just some of the other companies who have sent their staff to our workshops recently:

• 2012

• AXA Insurance

• Barclays

• The British Library

• Brunel University

• Carphone Warehouse

• DLA Piper

• Girlguiding UK

• The Home Office

• Investa Real Estate

• Npower

• Pepsico

• Rugby Football Union

• Shell

• Surrey Police

• UBS

• Virgin

Fee

This course is available at our computer suite for £199. For a bespoke course at your venue please call 020 7622 2400 for more details.

Our philosophy

Courses and workshops from Indiquo are designed to engage and entertain, as well as inform – that’s how we can promise to make what can seem to be the dullest of subjects interesting.

Our trainers have real-world experience at all levels of the organisation, so they speak your language and understand your issues and problems. And because they have ‘been there and done that’, they know how to get straight to the heart of every subject.