Office 2013 Training Materials – PowerPoint 2013 Advanced Courseware

Microsoft Office 2013 Courseware

Course Outlines

Diagrams within PowerPoint 2013

• Creating and formatting an organisation chart
• Creating a cycle diagram
• Creating a pyramid diagram
• Creating a flowchart using ‘shapes’
• Editing flowchart shapes and connectors

Charts in PowerPoint 2013

• Chart title
• Chart legend
• Data labels
• Axes labels
• Changing chart type
• Chart gap and overlaps
• Using images in chart columns or rows
• Formatting the plot and chart area using graphics
• Axis scales

PowerPoint 2013 video and audio

• Using video
• Changing the brightness and contrast of a video
• Re-colouring a video
• Adding a poster frame image to a video
• Resetting a video
• Applying a video style
• Playing a video in a shape
• Changing the colour and weight of a video border
• Applying special effects to a video
• Trimming video
• Video looping
• Using audio

PowerPoint 2013 animation

• Applying animation effects
• Animation triggers
• Using the animation painter
• Creating custom animation effects
• Modifying custom animation settings
• Changing the custom animation sequence
• Using custom animation to fade bulleted paragraphs
• Animating chart columns by series
• Animating, or not animating, the chart grid and legend
• Animating SmartArt

Linking and embedding in PowerPoint 2013

• Action buttons – linking to a different slide
• Action buttons – linking to a specific slide
• Action buttons – linking to a URL
• Action buttons – linking to custom shows
• Action buttons – linking to a different file
• Linking data into a slide and displaying as an icon object
• Linking and updating objects
• Breaking a link
• Inserting a link to a graphics file
• Embedding data into a slide and displaying it as an object
• Editing or deleting embedded data

Hyperlinks and PowerPoint 2013

• Creating and editing hyperlinks

Merging, comparing & exporting within PowerPoint 2013

• Merging all the slides from one presentation into another presentation
• Merging a Microsoft Word outline into a presentation
• Comparing presentations
• Saving a slide as a separate graphics file
• Using the screen shot feature

PowerPoint 2013 slide shows

• Creating custom slide shows
• Editing a custom slide show
• Copying and deleting custom slide shows
• Slide show transitions and timings
• Controlling slide show looping
• Applying settings so that slides advance manually
• Setting a slide show to use timings
• Enabling or disabling slide show animations
• Controlling a slide show

Sharing PowerPoint 2013 presentations

• Marking as final
• Permissions – encrypting with a password
• Converting a presentation to a video
• Packing for a cd
• Saving as a pdf format

PowerPoint 2013 presentation design & compatibility issues

• Planning your presentation
• Turn off your computer screen saver
• Issues relating to presentation timing
• Using graphics, diagrams and charts to convey ideas
• Limiting the level of detail within a presentation
• Using a consistent design scheme and adequate colour contrast
• Accessibility considerations when designing a presentation
• Using alt (alternative) text tags
• The accessibility checker
• The document inspector
• The compatibility checker