Training Room 2

Project 3: Digital Presentation Skills

 

Training Room 2: Formatting and Modifying Slides

 

Researching and gathering the content for your slides is the first step to creating your presentation. Building and formatting your slides to convey information in a meaningful and appealing way is the next step. In Training Room 1 you completed a career investigation and you built your information into slides. Training Room 2 focuses on formatting and manipulating your slides to improve the way they look.

 

What will I learn in Training Room 2?

 

In Training Room 2 you will

• copy, cut, and paste text
• format and modify textboxes, fonts, styles, size, and colour
• align text and change line spacing
• promote and demote text
• add and modify bulleted and numbered lists
• add and modify WordArt
• apply themes

The estimated completion time for Training Room 2 and Time to Practise 2 is two hours.

 

How can I improve my learning?

 

To really grasp what you are learning, you can

• read and watch demonstrations in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 to discover how to format and manipulate slide content
  
  
• use the Office Online Help and How-to website, should you require additional instruction or software assistance
  
  
• complete all practice activities to learn the software

Ready to get started?

 

Remember to complete all of Training Room 2, including all readings and practice activities, before starting Time to Practise 2.

 

From Training Room 2, you will be instructed to watch demonstrations. These demonstrations are also available in the Toolkit. You may want to open the following videos now so that they will be easily accessible to you as you complete the training rooms.

• Importing Text
• Working with Text Boxes
• Format Painter
• Indenting Text

Also remember to save your training room and Time to Practise activities in your INF1070 folder.

 

 

Now open Training Room 2: Formatting and Modifying Slides.

 

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