PowerPoint 2007 New Features

Objective

Learn to work with the new features of PowerPoint 2007.

Prerequisite Skills

• Familiar with previous versions of PowerPoint.

• Familiar with the new Office 2007 interface (helpful, though not essential)
  (Suggested course: Office 2007 New Features)

Course Description

As in other Office 2007 applications, the biggest change in PowerPoint 2007 is the new user interface. This course discusses how to use the Ribbon and Office button in PowerPoint, as well as several other new features designed to help you create great-looking presentations quickly and easily.

Attend this course if you want to:

• Work with the Office button and Ribbon in PowerPoint.

• Format text using the Mini toolbar.

• Understand new file formats.

• Convert presentations between different versions of PowerPoint.

• Change the look of an entire presentation by applying a theme.

• Change the background style of the slides.

• Use Quick Styles and SmartArt Styles to format shapes and diagrams.

• Use WordArt Styles to apply special effects to presentation text.

• Understand available slide layouts.

• Edit the slide master to format all slides simultaneously.

• Add a second slide master to a presentation.

• Create custom layouts.

• Reuse slides from other presentations.

• Apply transitions to your slides.

• Use the Selection and Visibility Task Pane to work with slide objects.

• Create charts in a PowerPoint presentation.

Class Length

90 minutes

Delivery Options

• Virtual classroom - public
  ($70 per student; check times and register here)

• Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization)
  ($480 per class; contact us for more details)

• Virtual classroom - one on one
  (Register for a 45-minute 1-on-1 Application Support session. Cost is $70 per student per session.)

• On-site instructor-led
  (Contact us for details)