Newcastle University

PowerPoint 2010 Module 1 - Getting Started

Aimed At: Staff who want to create and edit simple PowerPoint presentations.

Workshop Overview

This workshop is suitable for new users to Microsoft PowerPoint.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

• Design a Presentation
• Work with existing presentations
• Create a new presentation
• Use a variety of PowerPoint views
• Use a variety of slide layouts
• Apply a PowerPoint Theme
• Print slides
• Dividing PowerPoint into sections (New to 2010)

Outline Programme

The workshop programme is as follows:

• What is PowerPoint?
• Principles of Presentation Design
• Working with existing presentations
• Working in Normal View
• Working with slides in Outline View
• Using the Slide Sorter View
• Adding Notes to a slide
• Applying Design Themes
• Working with placeholders, lists, text boxes and formatting
• Creating a simple PowerPoint Presentation
• Printing from PowerPoint

Note

In addition to the workshops we offer we also have the on-line courses available through the SDU's Learning Resource Centre.