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PowerPoint for Poverty Alleviation​

A Community-Based Digital Empowerment Initiative

Target Participants

  • Youth (unemployed graduates, school dropouts)

  • Women (small business owners, homemakers seeking income skills)

  • Community leaders & grassroots organizations

  • Teachers and trainers in local schools

  • Micro-entrepreneurs & small business owners

PowerPoint 2016 Training

Participants will learn to create, edit, and enhance slideshow presentations to create professional-looking sales presentations, employee training, instructional materials, and kiosk slideshows. Learners will gain a fundamental understanding of the PowerPoint environment and the correct use of key features of this application.

Program Goals

  • Develop Digital Literacy: Teach community members how to use PowerPoint for communication, learning, and advocacy.

  • Enhance Employability: Build presentation and computer skills valued in workplaces.

  • Support Micro-Entrepreneurs: Provide tools to create business pitches, marketing materials, and training sessions.

  • Strengthen Community Voice: Enable leaders to advocate effectively for resources and social change.

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PowerPoint for Poverty Alleviation Course Outline

Module One: Create and manage presentations

  • Create a presentation

    • Create a new presentation

    • Create a presentation based on a template

    • Import Word document outlines

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  • Insert and format slides

    • Insert specific slide layouts

    • Duplicate existing slides

    • Hide and unhide slides

    • Delete slides

    • Apply a different slide layout

    • Modify individual slide backgrounds

    • Insert slide headers, footers, and page numbers

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  • Modify slides, handouts, and notes

    • Change the slide master theme or background

    • Modify slide master content

    • Create a slide layout

    • Modify a slide layout

    • Modify the handout master

    • Modify the notes master

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  • Order and group slides

    • Create sections

    • Modify slide order

    • Rename sections

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  • Change presentation options and views

    • Change slide size

    • Change views of a presentation

    • Set file properties

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  • Configure a presentation for print

    • Print all or part of a presentation

    • Print notes pages; print handouts

    • Print in color, gray scale, or black and white

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  • Configure and present a slide show

    • Create custom slide shows

    • Configure slide show options

    • Rehearse slide show timing

    • Present a slide show by using Presenter View

Module Two: Insert and Format Text, Shapes, and Images

  • Insert and format text

    • Insert text on a slide

    • Apply formatting and styles to text

    • Apply WordArt styles to text

    • Format text in multiple columns

    • Create bulleted and numbered lists

    • Insert hyperlinks

  • Insert and Format Shapes and Text Boxes

    • Insert or replace shapes

    • Insert text boxes, resize shapes and text boxes

    • Format shapes and text boxes

    • Apply styles to shapes and text boxes

  • Insert and format images

    • Insert images

    • Resize and crop images

    • Apply styles and effects

  • Order and group objects

    • Order objects

    • Align objects

    • Group objects

    • Display alignment tools

Module Three: Insert Tables, Charts, SmartArt, and Media

  • Insert and Format Tables

    • Create a table

    • Insert and delete table rows and columns

    • Apply table styles

    • Import a table

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  • Insert and Format Charts

    • Create a chart

    • Import a chart

    • Change the Chart Type

    • Add a legend to a chart

    • Change the chart style of a chart

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  • Insert and Format SmartArt Graphics

    • Create SmartArt graphics

    • Convert lists to SmartArt graphics

    • Add shapes to SmartArt graphics

    • Reorder shapes in SmartArt graphics

    • Change the color of SmartArt graphics

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  • Insert and manage media

    • Insert audio and video clips

    • Configure media playback options

    • Adjust media window size

    • Set the video start and stop time

    • Set media timing options

Module Four: Apply transitions and animations

  • Apply slide transitions

    • Insert Slide Transitions

    • Set transition effect options

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  • Animate Slide Content

    • Apply animations to objects

    • Apply animations to text

    • Set animation effect options

    • Set animation paths

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  • Set Timing for Transitions and Animations

    • Set transition effect duration

    • Configure transition start and finish options

    • Reorder animations on a slide

Module Five: Manage Multiple Presentations

  • Merge Content From Multiple Presentations

    • Insert slides from another presentation

    • compare two presentations

    • insert comments, review comments

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  • Finalize Presentations

    • Protect a presentation

    • Inspect a presentation

    • Proof a presentation

    • Preserve presentation content

    • Export presentations to other formats

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