Session I - Navigating the Updated Office Interface

Time - 2 hours

Description

This course provides information about the new user interface designed for the Microsoft Office 2007 applications.

Objectives

  • List and describe the features of the new Office 2007 user interface
  • Change application settings in Office 2007 products
  • Use the Live Preview feature

Topics

  • Why the big change?
  • The Ribbon: Command tabs and contextual tabs
  • The Ribbon: The Office menu
  • Galleries and live preview
  • Other new interface features

Session II - Common Features in Office 2010

Time - 3 hours

Description

This course explores the new features that the major Office 2010 applications have in common.

Objectives

  • Modify and minimize the Ribbon
  • Use Backstage view
  • Capture windows and clippings
  • Add artistic and color effects to images
  • Save documents to the Web
  • Work with Office Web Apps

Topics

  • Modifying the Ribbon
  • Working with Backstage View
  • Capturing Windows and Clippings
  • Removing Image Backgrounds
  • Adding Artistic and Color Effects
  • Checking Document Accessibility
  • Saving Documents to the Web
  • Working with SkyDrive
  • Using Office Web Apps

Session III - What's New in PowerPoint 2007

Time - 2 hours

Description

This course provides an overview of the new features in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. It shows you how to create tables and charts, apply themes and effects, set presentation options, and finalize a presentation.

Objectives

  • Create diagrams, tables, and charts
  • Apply themes to your presentations
  • Set presentation options
  • Use the Slide Library
  • Finalize a presentation

Topics

  • The new look
  • Diagrams, tables, and charts
  • Themes
  • Effects
  • Presentation options
  • The Slide Library
  • Finalizing a presentation

Session IV - What's New in PowerPoint 2010

Time - 4 hours

Description

This course explores the new features in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

Objectives

  • Describe the new Ribbon features
  • Embed and edit audio and video
  • Divide slide shows into sections
  • Add animations and transitions
  • Record a presentation as a video
  • Broadcast a slide show

Topics

  • Reviewing the Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint
  • Dividing Slide Shows into Sections
  • Adding Slide Transitions
  • Adding Slide Animations
  • Using Advanced Animation Features
  • Embedding and Editing Audio
  • Embedding and Editing Video
  • Saving a Presentation as a Video
  • Broadcasting a Slide Show

PowerPoint 2007 Training Series: Course Details

Total time - 19 hours

Session I - Getting Started

Time - 2 hours

Description

This course provides information on the basic features of PowerPoint 2007: becoming familiar with the Ribbon interface, opening and closing presentations, changing views, searching for help, and saving and printing slides and other presentation elements.

Objectives

  • Locate commands and features on the PowerPoint 2007 user interface
  • Start a new presentation
  • Switch presentation views
  • Use the Help Viewer
  • Save and print a presentation
  • Close PowerPoint

Topics

  • Navigating the interface
  • Starting a presentation
  • Views and browsing
  • Getting help
  • Saving, printing, and closing

Session II - Developing a Presentation

Time - 2 hours

Description

This course provides information on inserting and deleting slides, selecting and sizing objects, working with placeholders, manipulating and formatting text, as well as inserting both shapes and symbols in PowerPoint 2007.

Objectives

  • Insert and delete slides
  • Select, deselect, resize, move, and delete objects
  • Enter text into placeholders
  • Select, modify, move, and copy text
  • Adjust spacing, alignment, and rotation of text
  • Perform basic text formatting
  • Insert symbols and shapes

Topics

  • Working with slides
  • Working with objects
  • Entering text
  • Basic text editing
  • Text alignment and spacing
  • Formatting options

Session III - Design Elements

Time - 2 hours

Description

This course provides information on the design elements offered by PowerPoint 2007. This includes information on masters, placeholders, slide backgrounds, headers and footers, and themes.

Objectives

  • Describe the different types of PowerPoint 2007 masters
  • Insert and preserve slide masters
  • Create a new slide layout from scratch
  • Create a new slide layout from an existing layout
  • Insert, modify, format, and delete placeholders
  • Work with background objects and styles
  • Add and modify headers and footers

Topics

  • Working with masters
  • Controlling slide appearance and layout
  • Placeholders
  • Slide backgrounds
  • Headers and footers
  • Themes

Session IV - Interesting Shapes

Time - 2 hour

Description

This course provides information on using PowerPoint 2007's predesigned shapes, line options, and freeform tools that allow you to draw, size, and format your own shapes and forms.

Objectives

  • Draw a shape
  • Draw a straight line or arrow
  • Copy or move an object in one step
  • Turn on or turn off the visible grid or guides
  • Align and distribute objects
  • Connect two objects
  • Rotate an object to any angle

Topics

  • Drawing shapes
  • Drawing lines and arrows
  • Drawing freeforms
  • Copying and moving objects
  • Using grids and guides
  • Aligning and distributing objects
  • Connecting, rotating, and flipping shapes

Session V - Formatting Shapes

Time - 3 hours

Description

This course provides information on enhancing a PowerPoint 2007 presentation by formatting its shapes. This includes information on adding color, creating fill patterns, rotating shapes, and applying shadowing and 3-D effects.

Objectives

  • Add a Quick Style to a shape and shape text
  • Apply fill colors and shape effects
  • Apply picture, texture, and gradient fills
  • Create shadows, and apply 3-D effects and rotation

Topics

  • Quick styles
  • Color fills
  • Picture fills
  • Texture fills
  • Gradient fills
  • Shape effects
  • Shadows
  • 3-D effects

Session VI - Clip Art, Pictures, and WordArt

Time - 2 hours

Description

This course provides information on working with pictures and WordArt text in a PowerPoint 2007 presentation. It covers how to search for and insert pictures, and how to resize and add effects to them. It also covers how to format and insert WordArt text.

Objectives

  • Search for and insert clip art from PowerPoint 2007 and Microsoft Office Online
  • Insert and replace a picture
  • Apply a Quick Style, shape, border, and effect to a picture
  • Resize, crop, and rotate a picture
  • Insert and remove WordArt text
  • Apply styles and formatting to WordArt text

Topics

  • Adding Clip Art
  • Accessing Clip Art on the Web
  • Adding pictures
  • Changing picture attributes
  • Modifying picture size
  • Creating WordArt text
  • Formatting WordArt text

Session VII - SmartArt Graphics

Time - 2 hours

Description

This course provides information on creating and manipulating SmartArt graphics.

Objectives

  • Create a SmartArt graphic
  • Modify a SmartArt graphic
  • Modify shapes within a SmartArt graphic
  • Create a SmartArt Organization Chart

Topics

  • Inserting SmartArt graphics
  • Modifying SmartArt graphics
  • Modifying shapes within a SmartArt graphic
  • Creating SmartArt organizational charts

Session VIII - Charts and Tables

Time - 2 hours

Description

This course provides information on using PowerPoint 2007 features to insert and format charts and tables.

Objectives

  • Insert a chart and edit its data source
  • Use the Design, Format and Layout tabs to format charts
  • Insert and draw tables
  • Modify the rows, columns and cells of a table
  • Format tables by adding pictures and using different styles

Topics

  • Inserting charts
  • Formatting charts on the Design tab
  • Formatting charts on the Format tab
  • Formatting charts on the Layout tab
  • Inserting tables
  • Modifying tables
  • Formatting tables

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