Training Course Outline

PowerPoint 2013 customising and compatibility issues

• Modifying PowerPoint options
• Compatibility issues when saving a presentation
• Other file types you can use when saving a presentation
• Saving a presentation as a template
• Creating a new presentation based on a customised template
• Minimising and restoring the ribbon

PowerPoint 2013 sections

• Creating & renaming sections
• Collapsing & expanding PowerPoint sections
• Reordering sections
• Removing sections and slides
• Removing sections

Advanced slide master manipulation within PowerPoint 2013

• Inserting slide masters
• Editing a customised slide master
• Using customised slide masters

PowerPoint 2013 themes

• Applying themes
• Modifying a theme and saving it as a new theme
• Setting a theme as the default theme
• Deleting a theme

PowerPoint templates

• Creating a personal PowerPoint template
• Editing a personal template

Formatting pictures within PowerPoint 2013

• Removing a picture background
• Colouring pictures
• Artistic effects
• Picture styles
• Picture brightness and contrast
• Compressing pictures
• Resetting a picture
• SmartArt & pictures

Manipulating graphics within PowerPoint 2013

• Displaying the ruler
• Displaying gridlines
• Displaying guides
• Distributing graphics horizontally on a slide
• Distributing graphics vertically on a slide
• Cropping a graphic
• Re-sizing pictures
• Converting a clip art picture to an AutoShape and then editing the AutoShape
• Saving a graphic as a picture file
• Applying a background graphic to a single slide
• Hiding the background graphic on a single slide
• Applying a background graphic to multiple slides
• Hiding the background graphics on multiple slides
• Applying a background graphic to every slide

Formatting AutoShapes in PowerPoint 2013

• Setting AutoShape background colours
• Setting AutoShape background gradient colours
• Setting AutoShape background textures
• Setting AutoShape background pictures
• Setting AutoShape colour transparency
• AutoShape shape effects
• AutoShape format painter
• AutoShape defaults

 Available separately, as part of our Microsoft Office 2013 courseware bundle, or as part of the full IT Courseware library