Microsoft PowerPoint - elementary level
Course Outline
Presentation configuration
- Compatibility issues
- Protected View
- Marking as Final
- Protection, signature
- Organization of slideshow (sections)
- Comparison, comments
- Setting up the slideshow
Master slide as a base of design
- Comception
- Role of master slides
- Role of layouts
- Role of guides and grid
- Configuration of header/footer
- Master slides organization
- Background
- Color schemes (usage & definition)
- Motives
- Re-usage of design using templates
- Best practices
Slides
- Purpose of the presentation as visual aids
- Slide layouts
- Reseting of format to master slide state
- Custom textbox
- Best practices
Object of other applications
- Pictures and their specificts (transparency, re-coloring, crop)
- Cliparts and their specificts (conversion to fragments, clipart as a
raw material for future work)
- Video, sound
- Tables
- Charts
- SmartArt - visualization of list
- Other objects
- Screenshots
- Photo - Album
- Linked MS Office content
- Best practices
Custom graphical content
- Autoshapes
- Best practices (shortcuts, align, distribution, grouping)
- Curves & other types of lines - custom shapes
Dynamics of slideshow
- Transition
- Custom Animation
- Animations of charts & diagrams
- Timing
Interactivity of presentation
- Action Settings
- Mouse click as trigger of animation
- Hyperlink
- Custom slideshow
The Show
- Role of notes
- Presenter View
- Timing
- Infinite slideshow
- Digital pen in PowerPoint and anywhere else
Print
- Configuration of hangouts (logo, header/footer)
Export and import
- Slideshow export
- Packaging of slideshow
- Import headings from Word document
