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Our one day course gives you everything you need to go from producing drab and stale slide shows to creating beautiful, compelling PowerPoint presentations that keep your audience interested and motivated to absorb your message. On our course, you'll learn how to create text slides, conceptual slides and quantitative slides, such as pie charts and bar charts. We'll show you how and when to use each type and how to use templates and the slide master for consistency in a presentation. We'll also show you how to make the best use of the slideshow feature, with multimedia effects for on-screen presentations. Topics covered include Uses and elements of PowerPoint, Formatting text at the character level, Paragraph formatting, Restructuring text in a slide, Charts and graphs, Making changes to individual slides, Global changes to a presentation, Graphic enhancements and Presentations and slideshows.

Booking a private training session allows you to focus on your exact needs on dates that work best for you or your team.
•	Sessions can be run online or in person, on your site or at our London training centre.
•	We manage training for many of the UK’s largest companies, taking care of all the admin, working with you to ensure the perfect course.
•	Our expert trainers will first understand your requirements and then tailor each session to your exact specification.
•	We offer a free consultation service to work out every detail of your course.
Prices for bespoke sessions with our expert trainers start at £595 + VAT for the first person, plus £150 per additional person, per day

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Uses and elements of PowerPoint
•	Different ways to present information
•	The various PowerPoint views: Slide view; Normal View; Outline view
•	Speaker's Notes and Audience Handouts
•	Screen layout and toolbox
•	Entering text to form a presentation outline in both Slide and Outline view

Formatting text at the character level
•	Changing font and size
•	Applying type styles
•	Formatting Smart Tag

Paragraph formatting
•	Changing bullets
•	Adjusting indents

Restructuring text in a slide
•	Moving up and down one line
•	Promoting and demoting text to a different level within the same or a different slide

Charts and Graphs
•	Creating Organisation charts
•	Creating bar, line, pie and other charts

Making changes to individual slides
•	Use of the layout button to change layout style quickly
•	Re-applying the Slide Master
•	Assigning a different background
•	Inserting slides from other presentations

Global changes to a presentation
•	General use of the Slide Master
•	Changing background colour to a presentation
•	Working with Themes

Graphic enhancements
•	Use of elements to enhance slides e.g. boxes, circles, arrows etc
•	Adding clip art

Presentations and slideshows
•	Previewing a slide show
•	Displaying slides automatically at timed intervals and at manually determined intervals
•	Assigning transition effects
•	Incorporating multimedia effects into slideshows e.g. sound and animation

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Learners will require access to a laptop with an internet connection and access to the relevant software to enrol on this course.

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