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Course description: Dynamic Presentations with PowerPoint - Cornelia Yoder

$25.00

The ability to create and give dynamic presentations is one of the most valuable skills a person can have. It gives you the ability to communicate your ideas clearly and attractively and enhances your opportunities for success.

Prerequisites:

Students must have MS PowerPoint 2003 or higher installed on their computer. Being able to open and navigate MS PowerPoint is presumed and required. Examples shown in this course will be from PowerPoint 2003. Later versions may have slightly different screen views, but the concepts and techniques will apply to all versions.

Week 1: Getting Started and the Mechanics
Opening a new presentation
Selecting a style and colors
Viewing your presentation
Saving your presentation
Adding, deleting, moving, copying slides
The slide viewer and sorting slides
Uploading your presentation to the web

Week 2: Exploring Text
Use of fonts
Sizing your text
Adding bullets and other highlights
Coloring your text effectively
Using line colors, borders, and fills
Moving and sizing text boxes
The art of effective text

Week 3: Graphics and Pictures
Inserting pictures into your presentation
Sizing and borders
Objects, order, and grouping
Lines and arrows
Color, size, and orientation
Word art and clip art
Banners and other autoshapes
The art of effective graphics

Week 4: Animation and Sound
Preset and custom animations
Ordering and timing the animation
Animation effects
The art of animation
Slide transitions
Sound and narration

Week 5: Tables, Charts, Graphs, and Master Slides
Creating tables
Creating charts
Chart styles
Creating graphs
Animating charts and graphs
The art of charts and graphs
Master Slides

Week 6: Dynamic Presentations
Backgrounds and colors
Animation and sound
Size and font
Highlighting
Coherency
Text vs graphics
Giving the presentation

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