PowerPoint Intermediate / Advanced, CMP955
Increase skills and proficiency in designing MS PowerPoint 2007 slides and slide-show presentations. Explore new techniques to customize slide design templates, themes, and slide layouts. Learn to use slide and handout masters to improve slide appearance. Automate slide presentations by using multimedia clips, movie objects, and sound. Apply the new PowerPoint Comment and PowerPoint Document Inspector features that help in collaborating with others in preparing slide presentations.
Prerequisite: MS PowerPoint--Introduction or equivalent experience.
Textbook: Purchase at the Rockville Campus or Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus Bookstore and bring to first class along with a USB Flash Drive/memory stick (at least 512 MB).
Classroom Hours: 10
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Course Objectives:
- Customize the PowerPoint environment
- Customize a design template
- Add diagrams to your presentation
- Use the various options to customize slide shows
- Use PowerPoint to collaborate on a presentation
- Finalize a presentation
- Table Of Contents:
Unit 1: Customizing PowerPoint
Topic A: Application settings
Topic B: The Ribbon
Topic C: Custom themes
Unit 2: Using graphics and multimedia
Topic A: Clip art
Topic B: Media clips
Topic C: Animations
Topic D: Photo albums
Unit 3: Customizing SmartArt graphics, tables, and charts
Topic A: Customizing SmartArt graphics
Topic B: Customizing tables
Topic C: Working with Chart Tools
Unit 4: Action buttons, custom slide shows, and equations
Topic A: Interactive elements
Topic B: Custom slide shows
Topic C: Equations
Unit 5: Distributing presentations
Topic A: Using comments
Topic B: Finishing a presentation
Topic C: Distributing presentations
Topic D: Broadcasting a slide show online
Unit 6: Integrating Microsoft Office files
Topic A: Building slides from Word outlines
Topic B: Embedding and linking content
Topic C: Working with hyperlinks