Microsoft PowerPoint is part of Microsoft's Office suite. We offer the following workshops for PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 for Windows, 2008 and 2011 for Mac:

• Creating a presentation using PowerPoint
• Adding interest to your PowerPoint presentations

For dates and workshop bookings, click here.

Creating a presentation using PowerPoint

This workshop gives you everything you need to create a basic presentation using PowerPoint.The short document takes you through step by step.

Would benefit: all staff who present to a group or prepare material for presentations.

Topics covered:

• Choosing your slide layout
• Adding text to a slide
• Using bullet points
• Adding images
• Adding a build-effect animation
• Adding animation to a picture
• Adding a colour scheme (theme)
• Running a slide show
• Where and how to save your presentation
• Printing handouts
  

Prerequisites: none

Download the workshop document (PowerPoint 2010 for Windows)

Download the workshop document (PowerPoint 2008 for Mac)

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Adding interest to your PowerPoint presentations

This workshop looks at how you can add impact to your PowerPoint presentation using graphics, audio and video.

Would benefit: all staff who present to a group or prepare material for presentations.

Topics covered:

• Applying a theme
• Adding images
• Using SmartArt
• Building animations
• Adding audio
• Adding video
• Embedding video from YouTube
• Adding slide transitions
• Using the University of Brighton template

Prerequisites: You should be familiar with using PowerPoint to create slides with text.

Download the workshop document (Powerpoint 2010 for Windows)

Download the workshop document (Powerpoint 2011 for Mac)

Watch a video on how to build an animation in PowerPoint

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