Course Outline

PowerPoint Masters Class - Level 3
Welcome to our highly personalized PowerPoint Level 3 Masters Class. It is a small hands-on class taught by a PowerPoint guru who has all the answers for you.

This class is for experienced users of PowerPoint who wish to:
  • Learn many relatively unknown speed tricks
  • Know how to strategically edit a presentation or difficult slides
  • Get answers to PowerPoint issues, bugs and those seemingly unanswerable questions
  • Get their specific questions answered
Here is what you’ll learn in this extraordinary PowerPoint Level 3 Masters class:
  • Speed and design – learn ways to eliminate repetitive actions, do easy duplications and much more …
      o How to copy anything by dragging the mouse and keep it 100% aligned.
      o How to copy and paste formatting of text and objects.
      o All the tools of alignment and distribution … FAST.
      o How to cut out 95% of all the repetitive actions.
      o Duplicating custom colors, bullets, etc. very quickly.
      o Resizing various objects identically.
      o How to make semi-transparent multi-colored text.
      o How to draw objects.
      o Putting pictures into any shape and setting their transparency level.
      o How to move between programs almost instantly.
      o How to import data from other programs easily into PowerPoint.
  • Understanding – learn the fundamentals to keep you out of trouble and get the most functionality out of PowerPoint…
      o The 2 fundamentals of PowerPoint that resolve almost every difficulty you run into.
      o Learn the 4 Fundamentals of Art that determine whether a slide looks good or not, so you know how to create a slide correctly.
      o What to do when you made a lot of changes and realize that some were in error and others were not.
      o How multiple masters work.
      o How to set up one presentation for various audience showings. (e.g. slides 1, 3, 30-40 for one, and 3, 45, 89 for another).
      o How to get PowerPoint to record how long you talk on each slide.
      o You can do almost anything in PowerPoint that you can do in Flash.
      o How alignment and distribution works.
      o How to record voice.
      o How to play music over a set of slides.
      o How to copy a picture out of PowerPoint.
  • Troubleshooting – learn what to do when you run into setup or formatting glitches or printing issues
      o How to majorly reduce file size in a few clicks.
      o How to fix movies that don’t play.
      o How to fix the issue of a movie playing on screen but is blank on your computer.
      o How to deal with Mac vs. PC.
      o What to do when your file corrupts.
      o What to do with semi-transparent colors and WebEx.
      o How to fix black and white printout issues.
      o How to fix copied and pasted bulleted items that refuse to format.
  • Optimizing – learn ways to configure and strategize to maximize your efficiency in creating your presentation
      o How to configure PowerPoint for very fast work.
      o Strategizing your design work.
      o Working with auto resizing.
      o Strategizing animation design.
  • Interfacing with other programs (Excel or graphics)
      o Security issues and workarounds for Excel.
      o How to copy and paste cells into tables in a couple of clicks from Excel.
      o How to find the RGB (red, green, blue) values of colors in pictures.
This expert class moves very quickly, it’s not for beginners … students should already be experienced and confident in their PowerPoint Level 2 class skills. Because you’ll be getting so much information in a short time, we are offering this class on 2 days in 4-hour sessions, for 8 hour total class time.
Prerequisites:  PowerPoint Level 1 and 2, with proficiency in both classes and solid experience working with the program - students should be experienced and confident in their PowerPoint Level 1 and 2 class skills.
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