Course Content

Design Considerations

• Understand how audience size, room size and room lighting impacts on planning a presentation
• Understand how choice of font colours, number of colours used may elicit different responses from members of an audience
• Create and save a new presentation template with features such as: custom background fill effects, logo, spacing between bullet points

Slide Building

• Duplicate or move text, pictures and charts within the presentation and between presentations
• Save a slide in gif, jpeg, bmp format to a location on a drive
• Use the master slides. Edit and format slides in a presentation

Slide Objects

• Insert charts, organisational charts, diagrams and tables to slides
• To demonstrate the ability to work with drawn objects - to order and group objects
• Omit background graphics from a slide or slides
• Apply 3D effects to a drawn object
• Apply graduated background, fill colours, texture, patterns and picture fill effect to a drawn object in a presentation

Editing Images

• Crop and proportionately re-scale an image
• Rotate, flip, mirror an image
• Apply different available effects such as: negative effect, blurred, sharpened, stained glass, embossed etc. to an image
• Convert an image into grayscale, black and white format
• Convert an image into a file format such as: bmp, gif, jpeg format

Charts

• Create a line - column on two axes/mixed chart/graph
• Change graph/chart type such as: a column chart/graph to a line - column on two axes/mixed chart/graph
• Draw a flowchart using built-in flowchart options, other available drawing tools
• Using hyperlinks
• Use action buttons and hyperlink to other slides and to the web
• Create and use a summary slide

Slide Effects/Animations

• Insert sounds and movies with entry animation style, timing for automatically playing
• Change sequence of animations in a slide
• Animate chart elements by series, by category, by elements in series
• Set up a show
• Navigate during a slide show, add annotations to slides
• Rehearse and record timings

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