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Getting Started with PowerPoint

• The PowerPoint environment
• The Ribbon 
• Customise the ribbon
• Quick Access Toolbar
• Backstage View
• Create and open a presentation

Slide Basics

• Placeholders
• Customising layout
• Text boxes
• Insert new Slide
• Copy and paste slide
• Duplicate slide
• Delete and move slide
• Slide views
• Organising slides
• Adding notes
  

Text Basics

• Insert, select, delete text
• Copy and paste text
• Cut and paste text
• Drag and drop text
• Working with text
• Add text box
• Move and resize placeholder or text box
• Formatting text
• Modifying text – alignment and direction
  

Applying a Theme

• Applying a Theme
• Theme colours and fonts
• Slide layouts
• Apply a theme
  

Inserting Images

• Insert Picture from file
• Locate and insert Clip Art
• Inserting Screenshot/screen clipping
• Resize and move Images
  

Applying Transitions

• Apply a transition
• Modify duration
• Add sound to transition
• Advance slide manually or automatically
  

Checking Spelling

• Run a spell check
• Automatic spell checking
• Proofing options

Presenting a Slide Show

• Start a slide show
• Advance and reverse slides
• Stop and end a show
• Presentation tools
• Jump to non adjacent slides
• Go to desktop or access other program
• Set up slide show

Saving and Printing 

• Save
• Auto recover (not available on all PCs)
• Save as 97-2003 presentation
• Printing
• The print Pane
• Quick print

PowerPoint Beginners (login required)

• Introducing PowerPoint
• Screen components
• View Buttons
• Opening Saving and Closing
• Creating Presentations
• Editing Presentations
• Slide View
• Outline View
• Arranging Slides
• Slide Layout