PowerPoint - Refresh

Goals

Create a simple presentation and apply formatting.

Prerequisite

Basic Windows knowledge.

Contents

Create a presentation

• Based on a blank document
• Based on a template

The different PowerPoint views

• Usefulness of the different views
  • Normal, outline, slide sorter, notes, slide show

Manage slides

• Add, duplicate, delete a slide
• Apply a layout on a slide
• Hide a slide

Enter text in slide mode

• Advantages of content layouts
• Text boxes: advantages and disadvantages

Changing text formatting

• Apply character (font) formatting
• Use the eyedropper to copy a font colour
• Apply paragraph formatting
• Change line and paragraph spacing

Header & Footer

• Add a footer in slide mode
• Add a header or footer for the printed document

Create Notes Pages

• Add and change presenter notes
• Delete all notes in a presentation

Print options

• Print the different parts of a presentation:
  • Slide, Notes Pages, handouts, outline

Save as PDF

• Convert a presentation to PDF format
  • Configure the options of the PDF file