Course duration: 1 Day

Certification

PowerPoint 2007 Microsoft Certified Application Specialist

Course Description

As a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 user, you are familiar with the basics of creating a presentation, and you are able to convey information effectively in a simple way. Static content in presentations, however, will not keep your audience interested. In this course, you will enhance presentations with features that will transform basic presentations into a powerful means of communication.

Course Objective

You will enhance your presentation with features that will transform it into a powerful means of communication. You will customise the PowerPoint interface to suit your requirements and use the new and enhanced features to create dynamic and visually appealing presentations. You will then finalise a presentation and secure it to authenticate its validity.

Target Audience

This course is designed for students who want to gain the skills necessary to work with design templates, various types of diagrams, special effects, custom slide shows, collaboration functionality, and advanced presentation delivery. This course also assists in the preparation for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exam in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. It is for students who already have knowledge of the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, including slide formatting and working with tables, charts, images, objects, and presentation preparation.

Prerequisites

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007: Level 1

Delivery Method

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Certification

This course is one of a series of courses that addresses Microsoft Certified Application Specialist skill sets. The Application Specialist program is for individuals who use Microsoft’s business desktop software and who seek recognition for their expertise with specific Microsoft products. Certification candidates must pass one or more proficiency exams in order to earn Application Specialist certification.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Customize the PowerPoint environment.
Customize a design template.
Add diagrams to your presentation.
Add special effects to a PowerPoint presentation.
Use the various options to customize slide shows.
Use PowerPoint to publish slides to a slide library and secure your presentations.
Finalise a presentation.

Course Content

Custom presentation options
Application settings
Custom themes
Custom templates
Advanced slide master techniques

Graphic and multimedia content
Modifying clip art
Media clips
Animations
Photo albums

Customizing SmartArt graphics and tables
Customizing SmartArt graphics
Customizing tables

Action buttons and custom slide shows
Interactive elements
Custom slide shows

Distributing a presentation
Comments
Finishing a presentation
Distributing a presentation
Publish as a Web page

Integrating Microsoft Office files
Build slides from a Word outline
Embed and link content
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