EXCEL – CREATING CHARTS
- Inserting, Resizing, Deleting, Modifying and Copying Charts
- Editing charts
- Working with chart templates and color
- Using the Chart Wizard
- Using the Chart Toolbar
- Working with Charts
- Formatting the Chart
- Exporting into PowerPoint
POWERPOINT – CREATING A PRESENTATION
- Creating a new presentation
- Inserting a new slide
- Undo and Redo
- Saving a presentation
- Saving a presentation using a different name
- Inserting slides with a particular slide layout
- Modifying the slide layout
- Changing the background colour on the active slide
- Changing background colour on all the slides within a presentation
POWERPOINT – FONT FORMATTING
- Font formatting options
- Changing the font type
- Changing font size
- Increasing or decreasing the font size
- Bold, Italic or Underline formatting
- Shadow effects
- Character spacing
- Changing the case
- Font colour
POWERPOINT – INSERTING ILLUSTRATIONS
- Inserting Illustrations within PowerPoint
- Inserting pictures
- Inserting Clip Art
- Inserting Shapes
- Inserting text into a shape
- Inserting perfect circles or perfect squares
- Inserting Charts
POWERPOINT – SMARTART
- What is SmartArt
- Inserting SmartArt
- Manipulating SmartArt
- Formatting SmartArt
ANIMATION, MOVIES AND AUDIO
- Animating objects
- Animating Text
- Inserting Audio
- Editing Audio
- Inserting Video
- Editing Video
POWERPOINT – SLIDE SHOWS
- Running a slide show
- Slide show transition effects
- Slide show animation effect
PRESENTATION SKILLS
- Elements of a good presentation
- How do you feel about presenting by PowerPoint?
- How much is expected of you?
- What do you want from the day?
BRINGING POWERPOINT TO LIFE
- How to communicate using PowerPoint
- What works and what doesn’t?
IMPACT
- Why do you want it?
- What does it really mean?
- How to use PowerPoint to get Impact.
STRUCTURE
- How to crystalize our ideas into slides
CLARITY
- Ensuring that the audience will receive the key message we intend them to receive.
- Engaging the Audience
- How visuals can help and how we may connect on an intellectual and emotional level with our audience.
CONVICTION
- Without it even the most polished PowerPoint can sink without trace! Where can you inject passion and emotion into your presentation? Where are the moments of excitement, tension, and humour that they can exploit?
YOUR AUDIENCE
- Miscommunication, misunderstandings, and misinterpretations are often a direct result of the fact that everyone sees the world differently.
YOUR MESSAGE
- Identify key points
- Simplify the key points
- Create an interesting storyboard
YOURSELF
- What is stage fright?
- How to overcome it?
- Body language matters!
PRACTICE SESSION
- Group presentation and evaluation