Desktop Computer Skills
Microsoft Office 2010: Beginning PowerPoint
Adding Images to Presentations in PowerPoint 2010
Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010
PowerPoint 2010: Adding Animation
PowerPoint 2010: Configuring PowerPoint
PowerPoint 2010: Creating Graphics & Diagrams
PowerPoint 2010: Creating Presentations
PowerPoint 2010: Delivering Slideshows
PowerPoint 2010: Formatting Presentations
PowerPoint 2010: Getting Started
PowerPoint 2010: Illustrating Presentations
PowerPoint 2010: Inserting & Manipulating Text
PowerPoint 2010: Organizing Presentation Assets
PowerPoint 2010: Saving & Sharing Presentations
Using Multimedia and Animations in PowerPoint 2010
Visually Enhancing PowerPoint 2010 Presentations

Adding Images to Presentations in PowerPoint 2010

Course Number:
mo_bppt_a03_dt_enus
Lesson Objectives

Adding Images to Presentations in PowerPoint 2010

  • insert and format a picture used in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation
  • create a photo album in PowerPoint 2010
  • insert and format clip art using PowerPoint 2010
  • insert and format a shape using PowerPoint 2010
  • apply special effects to an image using PowerPoint 2010
  • add a hyperlink to an object using PowerPoint 2010
  • insert and edit a graphic image in a PowerPoint presentation
  • find and add clip art to a PowerPoint slide
  • format a shape and add a hyperlink in a PowerPoint presentation

Overview/Description
Inserting images, such as photographs, clip art, and shapes, into your PowerPoint 2010 presentation can help to capture and keep the attention of your audience. This course will show you how to insert, format, and apply special effects to your images so that they provide the maximum impact for your presentation. You will learn how to create a photo album and create a presentation that effectively displays your favorite photos. In addition, you will be shown how to use the new built-in screen capture tool that enables you to capture and embed screenshots of other programs into your slides.

Target Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy

Prerequisites: none

Adding Images to Presentations in PowerPoint 2010

Course Number:
mo_bppt_a03_dt_enus
Lesson Objectives

Adding Images to Presentations in PowerPoint 2010

  • insert and format a picture used in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation
  • create a photo album in PowerPoint 2010
  • insert and format clip art using PowerPoint 2010
  • insert and format a shape using PowerPoint 2010
  • apply special effects to an image using PowerPoint 2010
  • add a hyperlink to an object using PowerPoint 2010
  • insert and edit a graphic image in a PowerPoint presentation
  • find and add clip art to a PowerPoint slide
  • format a shape and add a hyperlink in a PowerPoint presentation

Overview/Description
Inserting images, such as photographs, clip art, and shapes, into your PowerPoint 2010 presentation can help to capture and keep the attention of your audience. This course will show you how to insert, format, and apply special effects to your images so that they provide the maximum impact for your presentation. You will learn how to create a photo album and create a presentation that effectively displays your favorite photos. In addition, you will be shown how to use the new built-in screen capture tool that enables you to capture and embed screenshots of other programs into your slides.

Target Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy

Prerequisites: none

Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010

Course Number:
mo_bppt_a01_dt_enus
Lesson Objectives

Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010

  • identify key elements of the PowerPoint 2010 interface
  • change the view of a presentation
  • open, save, and close a PowerPoint presentation
  • recognize methods for opening a PowerPoint presentation
  • open a PowerPoint 2010 template
  • add and format text and text boxes on a PowerPoint slide
  • manipulate slides in a PowerPoint presentation
  • open a presentation and format text boxes
  • organize slides and save a PowerPoint presentation

Overview/Description
PowerPoint 2010 is a presentation program that allows you to create professional-looking slide-show presentations. This course provides an introduction to the main components of the PowerPoint 2010 interface. It covers opening and saving a presentation, working with slides, formatting text and text boxes, and using templates and themes to create professional looking presentations.

Target Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy

Prerequisites: none

Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010

Course Number:
mo_bppt_a01_dt_enus
Lesson Objectives

Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010

  • identify key elements of the PowerPoint 2010 interface
  • change the view of a presentation
  • open, save, and close a PowerPoint presentation
  • recognize methods for opening a PowerPoint presentation
  • open a PowerPoint 2010 template
  • add and format text and text boxes on a PowerPoint slide
  • manipulate slides in a PowerPoint presentation
  • open a presentation and format text boxes
  • organize slides and save a PowerPoint presentation

Overview/Description
PowerPoint 2010 is a presentation program that allows you to create professional-looking slide-show presentations. This course provides an introduction to the main components of the PowerPoint 2010 interface. It covers opening and saving a presentation, working with slides, formatting text and text boxes, and using templates and themes to create professional looking presentations.

Target Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Adding Animation

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_09_enus
Lesson Objectives

PowerPoint 2010: Adding Animation

  • Adding animations to your presentation
  • Creating an animation
  • Customizing an animation
  • Adding animations to multiple slides
  • Managing multiple animations
  • Replaying an animation in your slide
  • Creating transitions between slides

Overview/Description

Adding animations to your PowerPoint presentations can make them visually more appealing and entertaining. Discover how to add, insert, create, and manage animations, and use transitions between slides.



Target

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Configuring PowerPoint

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_11_enus
Lesson Objectives

PowerPoint 2010: Configuring PowerPoint

  • Customizing your document view settings
  • Customizing your save settings
  • Customizing your language settings
  • Customizing your interface
  • Customizing the Quick Access toolbar
  • Customizing the ribbon

Overview/Description

As with other Office applications, PowerPoint 2010 is highly customizable. Discover how to adjust a number of elements, including the interface, Quick Access Toolbar, ribbon, and save and language settings.



Target

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Creating Graphics & Diagrams

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_08_enus
Objectives:

Overview/Description
You can make slide information easier to understand by adding graphics. Learn how to work with SmartArt graphics, shapes, effects, and charts in your PowerPoint presentations.

Target

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Creating Presentations

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_02_enus
Lesson Objectives

PowerPoint 2010: Creating Presentations

  • Inserting a new slide
  • Inserting slides from an existing presentation
  • Moving your slides
  • Using presentation templates
  • Adjusting your slide layout
  • Using the Outline view
  • Grouping your slides into sections
  • Using headers & footers
  • Using the Master mode
  • Creating a Master slide template
  • Using multiple Master slides in a presentation
  • Creating a template

Overview/Description

A properly structured PowerPoint presentation can make it more effective. Work with slides and templates, use the slide layout and outline view, and discover how to work with the Slide Master view and master slides.



Target

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Delivering Slideshows

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_10_enus
Lesson Objectives

PowerPoint 2010: Delivering Slideshows

  • Using the Slide Show mode
  • Using the Slide Show tools
  • Creating an automatic slide show
  • Creating customized slide shows
  • Configuring the Slide Show mode
  • Using the notes section
  • Inserting action buttons

Overview/Description
Once you have completed your PowerPoint presentation, you are ready to present it. Learn how to use the Slide Show mode and tools, create custom slide shows, insert action buttons, and use the notes section.

Target

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Formatting Presentations

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_06_enus
Lesson Objectives

PowerPoint 2010: Formatting Presentations

  • Changing your text's size & font
  • Adding color to your presentation
  • Creating a customized color palette
  • Aligning your text
  • Adjusting your text orientation
  • Organizing your text into columns
  • Modifying your paragraph indentation
  • Modifying your line & paragraph spacing
  • Creating a title
  • Inserting bullet points
  • Inserting a numbered list
  • Creating a hybrid list
  • Using presentation themes
  • Changing your slide background
  • Creating a custom slide background
  • Creating a theme

Overview/Description

Make your PowerPoint presentation more visually appealing. Discover how to modify text, create titles, work with color, insert bullets and lists, alter slide backgrounds, and use themes.



Target

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Getting Started

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_01_enus
Lesson Objectives

PowerPoint 2010: Getting Started

  • Finding & opening the application
  • Creating & opening a document
  • Using the application
  • Moving between different slides
  • Using the different presentation views
  • Using the zoom tool
  • Moving between presentations

Overview/Description

Get started with PowerPoint 2010. Learn how to access the application to create and open documents, explore the interface and presentation views, and learn how to navigate between slides and presentations.



Target

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Illustrating Presentations

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_07_enus
Lesson Objectives

PowerPoint 2010: Illustrating Presentations

  • Inserting an image
  • Editing an image
  • Editing an image with advanced editing tools
  • Manipulating an image
  • Adding a screenshot
  • Creating a photo album
  • Adding hyperlinks
  • Creating bookmarks in your presentation
  • Inserting an audio file
  • Inserting a video file
  • Editing your multimedia file
  • Inserting a preset equation
  • Creating your own equation
  • Inserting a table
  • Editing your table
  • Formatting your table

Overview/Description

Text is not the only thing that you can include on your PowerPoint slides. Discover how to insert and edit images, multimedia files, and tables; create bookmarks and photo albums; and work with equations.



Target

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Inserting & Manipulating Text

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_05_enus
Lesson Objectives

PowerPoint 2010: Inserting & Manipulating Text

  • Inserting text
  • Inserting special characters
  • Undoing & redoing your actions
  • Using the Spell Check function
  • Configuring the Spell Check function
  • Adjusting the AutoCorrect options
  • Using the find tool
  • Using the replace tool

Overview/Description

In most cases, your PowerPoint slides will contain text. Discover how to work with text, including inserting text, using the spelling and grammar tools, and using the find and replace functions.



Target

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Organizing Presentation Assets

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_04_enus
Lesson Objectives

PowerPoint 2010: Organizing Presentation Assets

  • Copying & pasting
  • Using the paste special tool
  • Using the clipboard
  • Manipulating items in your presentation
  • Organizing the contents of a slide
  • Grouping & ungrouping objects

Overview/Description

PowerPoint lets you insert various elements on your slides. Discover how to use the available tools for manipulating and organizing these elements in your presentation.



Target

Prerequisites: none

PowerPoint 2010: Saving & Sharing Presentations

Course Number:
ds_mspp2010_03_enus
Lesson Objectives

PowerPoint 2010: Saving & Sharing Presentations

  • Saving your presentation
  • Saving your presentation as a PDF
  • Recovering a previous version of your document
  • Exporting your presentation
  • Creating a video presentation
  • Creating a presentation package
  • Using your presentation in Word
  • Editing your document properties
  • Checking for compatibility issues
  • Creating an accessible document
  • Checking for personal information in your document
  • Adjusting your page layout
  • Printing your presentation
  • Protecting your document
  • Sending your presentation by email
  • Sharing your document via Office 365
  • Presenting your document online
  • Commenting on a document
  • Comparing two presentations

Overview/Description

PowerPoint presentations can be saved and shared with others in a number of ways. Explore various methods for saving, exporting, and sharing your presentations.



Target

Prerequisites: none

Using Multimedia and Animations in PowerPoint 2010

Course Number:
mo_bppt_a04_dt_enus
Lesson Objectives

Using Multimedia and Animations in PowerPoint 2010

  • insert a video into a PowerPoint presentation
  • insert an audio clip into a PowerPoint presentation and set playback options
  • apply slide transitions in a PowerPoint presentation
  • apply animations to a slide in a PowerPoint presentation
  • match types of animations with corresponding uses
  • add a video and an audio clip to a slide
  • apply a transition to a presentation
  • apply animations to multiple objects on a slide

Overview/Description
PowerPoint 2010 can help you make presentations more dynamic by adding audio and video clips to any slide. You can directly insert, edit, and play video in your presentation, as well as add audio clips to create attention-grabbing sound effects. PowerPoint 2010 also has new animation tools and slide transitions which make slide shows more fluid and interesting. All of these features are discussed in this course.

Target Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy

Prerequisites: none

Using Multimedia and Animations in PowerPoint 2010

Course Number:
mo_bppt_a04_dt_enus
Lesson Objectives

Using Multimedia and Animations in PowerPoint 2010

  • insert a video into a PowerPoint presentation
  • insert an audio clip into a PowerPoint presentation and set playback options
  • apply slide transitions in a PowerPoint presentation
  • apply animations to a slide in a PowerPoint presentation
  • match types of animations with corresponding uses
  • add a video and an audio clip to a slide
  • apply a transition to a presentation
  • apply animations to multiple objects on a slide

Overview/Description
PowerPoint 2010 can help you make presentations more dynamic by adding audio and video clips to any slide. You can directly insert, edit, and play video in your presentation, as well as add audio clips to create attention-grabbing sound effects. PowerPoint 2010 also has new animation tools and slide transitions which make slide shows more fluid and interesting. All of these features are discussed in this course.

Target Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy

Prerequisites: none

Visually Enhancing PowerPoint 2010 Presentations

Course Number:
mo_bppt_a02_dt_enus
Lesson Objectives

Visually Enhancing PowerPoint 2010 Presentations

  • apply a theme to a PowerPoint 2010 presentation
  • modify a PowerPoint theme
  • create and format SmartArt in PowerPoint 2010
  • add WordArt to a slide and edit it
  • add a table to a PowerPoint slide
  • add a chart to a PowerPoint slide
  • format a table in PowerPoint 2010
  • format a chart in PowerPoint 2010
  • work with a theme in PowerPoint 2010
  • work with SmartArt in PowerPoint 2010
  • work with a chart in PowerPoint 2010
  • work with a table in PowerPoint 2010

Overview/Description
PowerPoint 2010 enables you to create visually appealing presentations through the use of graphics. Adding simple enhancements through the use of themes, tables, charts, and SmartArt allows you to create more engaging and interesting presentations. This course introduces the various themes and SmartArt features that allow you to add flair to your presentations by using colors and shapes to emphasize text and data. Also covered are the various ways of incorporating diagrams, tables, and charts to create a professional and effective presentation.

Target Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy

Prerequisites: none

Visually Enhancing PowerPoint 2010 Presentations

Course Number:
mo_bppt_a02_dt_enus
Lesson Objectives

Visually Enhancing PowerPoint 2010 Presentations

  • apply a theme to a PowerPoint 2010 presentation
  • modify a PowerPoint theme
  • create and format SmartArt in PowerPoint 2010
  • add WordArt to a slide and edit it
  • add a table to a PowerPoint slide
  • add a chart to a PowerPoint slide
  • format a table in PowerPoint 2010
  • format a chart in PowerPoint 2010
  • work with a theme in PowerPoint 2010
  • work with SmartArt in PowerPoint 2010
  • work with a chart in PowerPoint 2010
  • work with a table in PowerPoint 2010

Overview/Description
PowerPoint 2010 enables you to create visually appealing presentations through the use of graphics. Adding simple enhancements through the use of themes, tables, charts, and SmartArt allows you to create more engaging and interesting presentations. This course introduces the various themes and SmartArt features that allow you to add flair to your presentations by using colors and shapes to emphasize text and data. Also covered are the various ways of incorporating diagrams, tables, and charts to create a professional and effective presentation.

Target Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy

Prerequisites: none

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