Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 - Advanced

This one-day course is aimed at students who wish to gain the skills necessary to enhance presentations with features that will transform basic presentations into those with a powerful means of communications. Students will learn to work with design templates, organisational charts, special effects, web presentations, collaboration functionality and advanced presentation delivery. Students should have thorough working knowledge of the basics of MS PowerPoint 2003, including slide formatting, working with tables, images, and objects, charting data and presentation preparation. The course will cover the following:

• Creating a custom design template: Define design template characteristics; create a custom colour scheme; set up a slide master; format custom bullets; add a footer; modify the Notes master; save a custom design template
• Adding organisation charts and diagrams: Working with organisation charts; update an organisation chart; applying a chart layout; create a diagram; draw a flowchart
• Adding special effects: Add sound and movies; add animation; emphasize objects; set a motion path; set the order of effects
• Creating web presentations: Create a group home page with the autocontent wizard; hyperlink to a web page; publish as a web page
• Collaborating in PowerPoint: Set password protection; work with comments; send a presentation for review; merge revision copies; apply reviewer changes
• Delivering a presentation: Hyperlink with PowerPoint; add an action button; set up a custom show; annotate a presentation; working with narrations and slide timings; set up a slide show to repeat automatically 

In order to ensure that the tutor has an overview of the prior PowerPoint experience and knowledge of the course participants, and to ensure that your current PowerPoint proficiency is adequate for you to undertake and benefit from this course, please download and complete this questionnaire, and return it by e-mail to info@trainerslearningskillnet.com, by fax to 045-881192 or by post to Trainers' Learning Skillnet, Unit 4 Sycamore House, Millennium Business Park, Naas, Co. Kildare, to arrive no later than one week prior to commencement of your course. Please note that you may be recommended to undertake a more elementary course rather than participating on this Advanced course at this time.

Upon completion of this one-day course, you may decide to undertake the Microsoft Office Specialist examination in this subject area. Some additional individual preparation for this examination may be required. Please speak to your tutor if you are interested in pursuing this accreditation. Neither the additional preparation nor the examination itself are included in the fee for this course (arrangements to be made directly with training provider/assessment centre, and fee(s) to be paid directly to training provider/assessment centre).