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Mon 16 Apr 2012
10:30 - 12:30

Venue: Titan Teaching Room 2

Provided by: University Computing Service


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PowerPoint 2007 for Beginners: Quick Start (Self-paced)
Beginners

Mon 16 Apr 2012

Description

This self-paced hands-on course gives a "quick start" introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 which is widely used software for preparing presentations. Participants work at their own pace using a workbook containing notes and exercises, with a demonstrator on hand to help.

Prerequisites

The course is aimed at beginners - no previous knowledge or experience is assumed, although basic computing and wordprocessing skills are useful;

Sessions

Number of sessions: 1

# Date Time Venue Trainer
1 Mon 16 Apr 2012   10:30 - 12:30 10:30 - 12:30 Titan Teaching Room 2 M. ten Wolde
Topics covered
  • Creating slides and a slide show
  • The various PowerPoint views
  • Special slide effects
  • Inserting an Excel chart
  • Adding speaker's notes
  • Audience handouts.
Format

Self-paced practicals.

System requirements

PowerPoint 2007 on PWF Windows

Materials

Course exercise files can be downloaded from http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/courses/coursedesc/pres.html#powerptbeg

Notes
  • Being very basic, the course is unsuitable for those who have already attended the PowerPoint Introduction.
  • Please bring a memory stick if you wish to take away the exercise files; alternatively they can be downloaded (see below).
  • Alternative courses are offered for those preferring more formal instruction; the material is also available as a self-instruction pack which can be purchased from Computing Service Reception.
Duration

One session of two hours

Theme
Presentations

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