Intro to PowerPoint 2007

Lessons (20 weeks)

1. Intro-What is PowerPoint 2007

2. The 10 Most Common PowerPoint 2007 Terms

3. Slide Layouts and Slide Types

4. Different ways to View Slides

5. Background Colours and Graphics

6. Design Themes

7. Using Clipart and Pictures

8. Modifying Slide Layouts

9. Add Delete or Rearrange Slides

10. Use Slide Transitions to Add Movement

11. Apply Custom Animations

12. Photo Tips

    1. Photo Compression

    2. Crop Pictures

    3. Create pictures from other slides

    4. Resize photos in same location

    5. Black and white to colour photo trick
       
       

13. Create a Digital Photo Album

14. About Sounds - Sources, Formats, Add, Preview

15. Audio symbols, Ripping CD with Windows Media Player

16. Play a Sound across Multiple Slides

17. Actions Buttons on a Slide Show

Tips

1. The 10 Most Common Presentation Mistakes

2. Create a Menu Slide

3. How to use a hyperlink to open another presentation

Assets for class exercises

Set 1 - short exercises

Set 2 - lots of images for photo albums

Tunes etc - samples to use with Photo album

Videos

• Getting up to speed

• How to move and resize text boxes on your slide

• Hyperlinks With Action Settings

Downloads

PowerPoint viewer - lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions. This viewer also supports opening password-protected Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. You can view and print presentations, but you cannot edit them in the PowerPoint Viewer 2007.

PowerDVDPoint Lite v3.5 - Freeware to convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD. Show presentations without the use of a computer and easily distribute slideshows to Clients and Friends.

Extras

Download Office 2007 training - PowerPoint 2007

Beginner's Guide to PowerPoint 2010 - For those of you who got on board with PowerPoint 2007, this version of the program will look very familiar. However, there are some new additions to PowerPoint 2010 in terms of features, and some subtle additions in terms of slight changes to existing features in PowerPoint 2007.