Office 2013 Training Materials – PowerPoint 2013 Foundation Courseware
Office 365 training resources from the Cheltenham Group Free SamplesMicrosoft Office 2013 Courseware
Course Outlines
Using PowerPoint 2013
- Opening PowerPoint 2013
- Opening a presentation
- Navigating between slides
- Using the zoom tool
- Changing PowerPoint views
- Using help
- Searching for help
- Using the help table of contents
- Saving a presentation
- Closing a presentation
- Closing PowerPoint
- Opening multiple presentations
- Switching between multiple presentations
Creating a PowerPoint 2013 presentation
- Creating a new presentation
- Inserting a new slide
- Recommended techniques when creating slide content
- Undo and redo
- Saving a presentation
- Saving a presentation using a different name
Manipulating slides within PowerPoint 2013
- Inserting slides with a particular slide layout
- Modifying the slide layout
- Changing the background colour on the active slide
- Changing background colour on all the slides within a presentation
PowerPoint 2013 design themes
- Applying a theme to a presentation
- Modifying the theme colours
- Modifying the theme fonts
Text boxes
- Editing text boxes (placeholders)
- Resizing a text box (placeholder)
- Moving a text box (placeholder)
Manipulating text in PowerPoint 2013
- Selecting text
- Moving text within a slide
- Moving text between slides within a presentation or between presentations
- Copying text within a slide
- Copying text between slides within a presentation or between presentations
- Deleting text
- Using find
- Using replace
Font formatting within PowerPoint 2013
- Font formatting options
- Changing the font type
- Changing font size
- Increasing or decreasing the font size
- Bold, italic or underline formatting
- Strikethrough effects
- Shadow effects
- Character spacing
- Changing case
- Font colour
- Clearing all text formatting
Paragraph formatting within PowerPoint 2013
- Text alignment
- Columns
- Modifying bullet point formatting
- Using numbering instead of bullet points
- Changing the list level
- Indenting bulleted text
- Line spacing vs. Paragraph spacing
- Line spacing
- Paragraph spacing
- Using outline view
- PowerPoint presenter notes
- Text direction
- Text alignment within a text box (placeholder)
- Text AutoFit
- Using the format painter
Tables and PowerPoint 2013
- Table selection techniques
- Column selection
- Row selection
- Entire table selection
- Creating a table
- Applying a style to a table
- Cell background shading
- Applying table effects
- Adding ‘quick styles’ to selected text
- Applying borders to cells
- Deleting a column
- Deleting a row
- Inserting rows or columns
- Modifying column width and row height
- Distributing rows and columns
PowerPoint 2013 & illustrations
- Selecting an illustration
- Selecting multiple illustrations
- Moving an illustration
- Copying an illustration
- Deleting an illustration
- Resizing an illustration
- Stretching an illustration
- Copying illustrations between presentations
- Moving illustrations between presentations
- Inserting illustrations within PowerPoint
- Inserting pictures from your hard disk
- Inserting online pictures or clip art
- Inserting shapes
- Inserting text into a shape
- Inserting perfect circles or perfect squares
- Inserting a line
- Inserting a free drawn line
- Inserting an arrow
- Inserting a text box
- Inserting SmartArt
Manipulating illustrations within PowerPoint 2013
- Formatting the shape background fill colour style
- Applying a shadow to an illustration
- Modifying arrow line shapes and size
- Rotating or flipping an illustration
- Rotating illustrations by dragging with the mouse
- Layering illustrations to the front or back
- Aligning graphics relative to each other or relative to the slide
- Aligning shapes relative to the left of a slide
- Aligning shapes relative to the centre of a slide
- Aligning shapes relative to the right of a slide
- Aligning shapes relative to the top of a slide
- Aligning shapes relative to the bottom of a slide
- Grouping and ungrouping objects
Charts in PowerPoint 2013
- Inserting charts and editing the chart data
- Changing the chart type
- Changing the background colour in the chart
- Changing the column, bar, line or pie slice colours in the chart
- Chart title manipulation
- Adding data labels to a chart
Manipulating slides within PowerPoint 2013
- Moving slides within a presentation or between presentations
- Copying slides within a presentation
- Deleting a slide or slides
- Copying slides between presentations
- Moving slides between presentations
PowerPoint 2013 slide masters
- What is a slide master?
- Inserting a picture (clipart) into a master slide
- Removing a picture or shape from a master slide
Headers, footers and slide numbering
- Creating a footer
- Automatic slide numbering
- Inserting dates into the footer
PowerPoint 2013 slide shows
- Running a slide show
- Adding slide show transition effects
- Removing transition effects
- Adding slide show animation effects
- Modifying slide show animation effects
- Removing animation effects
- Hiding slides
- Displaying hidden slides within a slide show
Video creation using PowerPoint 2013
- Inserting hyperlinks into slides
- Converting a PowerPoint presentation into a video
- Uploading a video to YouTube
Printing and proofing in PowerPoint 2013
- Spell-checking a presentation
- Using portrait or landscape slide orientation
- Switching between standard and widescreen formats
- Selecting your output format
- Visually inspect each slide before printing
- Printing options
- Setting the number of copies to print
- Selecting a different printer
- Printing selected slides
- Setting the number of slides per page to be printed
- Single or double sided (duplex) printing
- To print a presentation
- Word 2013 Intermediate
- Word 2013 Advanced
- Excel 2013 Foundation
- Excel 2013 Intermediate
- Excel 2013 Advanced
- PowerPoint 2013 Foundation
- PowerPoint 2013 Intermediate
- PowerPoint 2013 Advanced
- Outlook 2013
- Access 2013 Foundation
- Access 2013 Intermediate
- Access 2013 Advanced
- Publisher 2013 Foundation
- Project 2013 Foundation
- Visio 2013 Foundation
- Windows 8.1 Foundation
- Internet Explorer 11