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4007 Creating Effective Presentations Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
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This course is designed to offer you a practical, hands-on demonstration of how you can use Microsoft PowerPoint to improve the quality and effectiveness of your presentations. It helps you to see PowerPoint in a new light, moving beyond the concept that slides are a container for speaker’s notes and into a new vision of PowerPoint as a tool that can help you achieve your business goals with more interesting, engaging, and meaningful presentations.
What you will learn
After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify common problems in presentations and identify the common goals of any effective presentation.

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    Summarize the main idea of each slide by using a complete sentence in the Title area.

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    Maximize the use of the Notes Page feature in PowerPoint.

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    Make use of the entire slide area to present graphics and photographs.

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    Apply powerful techniques within PowerPoint that can have a big impact on the effectiveness of the presentation.
    Prerequisites
    Before attending this course, students must have:

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    The functional need to make presentations to audiences of different types, for a range of business reasons.

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    Hands-on experience with PowerPoint, including the ability to:

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    Write and edit text in the title area of slides.

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    Insert, resize, reposition, and manipulate graphics on a slide.

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    Work in PowerPoint’s various design views, including Normal, Notes Page, and Slide Sorter.

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    Print documents using PowerPoint’s print feature.

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    Advance slides during a live presentation using the keyboard.
    Audience

    This course is designed for individuals who rely on presentations to communicate to other people for a range of purposes, including informing, persuading and inspiring. This group must communicate by public speaking, including formal meetings, impromptu gatherings, teaching and public speaking to professional groups and other audiences. This course is ideal for those who use PowerPoint routinely for presentations, but are mainly familiar with the conventional bullet point approach and want to explore new applications of the software.
    Duration
    Half day-Instructor-led