Course Description
Course Description
In this three-day hands-on course, students become familiar with the key features and functionality of Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Students work with real-world content and scenarios to learn practical approaches to creating documents, spreadshe
ets, and presentations.
Who Should Attend
This class is designed for anyone who wants to create professional-quality documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
What You'll Learn
How to create engaging, informative documents that convey information clearly through the effective presentation of content, including rich media
How to store, analyze, and present data in an informative and interactive format using formulas, charts and graphs, and rich media
How to create influential presentations that incorporate photographs, diagrams, animations, and other rich media to connect with and engage the intended audience
Prerequisites
Knowledge of OS X and basic computer navigation.
Course Outline
Day 1
Getting Started
- Learning methodology
- Understanding course structure
- System requirements
- Downloading and installing lesson files
- Additional resources
Discovering Common Features
- Before you start
- Opening Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
- Swapping between open applications
- Choosing themes
- Editing text in Pages
- Customizing your workspace
- Repeating image styles
- Reverting documents
- Distributing your work
- Working with tables
- Illustrating data using charts
- Adding comments
- Adding photos
- Adjusting layouts
- Trimming a movie clip
- Securing your files
Approaches to Word Processing
- Creating a new document using a template
- Customizing page design
- Creating and applying styles
- Saving styles for bullets and lists
- Making a table of contents
- Managing headers and footers
- Changing the page order
- Keeping headers with the following paragraph
- Saving to Microsoft Word and PDF formats
- Opening and editing a Word document
- Tabulating text
Working with Charts and Data
- Opening a Pages ’09 document
- Using a table to add data
- Formatting tables
- Creating list structures
- Presenting data using charts
- Creating chart styles
- Using footnotes and endnotes
- Checking a document for errors
Designing a Brochure
- Changing to page layout
- Making a logotype
- Changing page order
- Enhancing images
- Creating shape styles
- Formatting table styles
- Preparing for print
- Taking part in a document review
Building Promotional Materials
- Creating business cards
- Making posters
- Starting with a blank canvas
- Defining placeholder images
- Defining placeholder text
- Saving designs as templates
Creating Rich Media ePubs
- Preparing a document for ePub
- Working with inline graphics
- Creating character styles
- Adding movies to Pages
- Adding audio to Pages
- Exporting to ePub
- Previewing in iBooks
Day 2
Organizing Data Using Numbers
- Assessing templates
- Working with sheets
- Making a budget sheet
- Adding calculations
- Working with multiple tables
- Printing from Numbers
Making Interactive Spreadsheets
- Opening and upgrading a Numbers ’09 document
- Opening and editing an Excel workbook
- Formatting tables
- Referencing data
- Evaluating data formats
- Adding conditional highlighting
- Using password protection
Making Customized Calculators
- Understanding relative and absolute cell referencing
- Concatenating cells
- Sorting tables
- Filtering tables
- Making a pricing calculator
Illustrating Data Using Charts
- Opening a CSV file
- Creating a stacked bar chart Making a mixed chart
- Using interactive chart types
- Showing a margin of error
- Building a scatter chart
- Saving a template
Outlining a Presentation
- Creating a presentation
- Customizing your workspace
- Adding slides
- Opening a PowerPoint presentation in Keynote
- Recording and deleting slides
- Working in outline view
- Adding slide transitions
- Using builds
- Applying themes
Making Media-Rich Presentations
- Making a slide background
- Updating a paragraph style
- Creating new slides by dragging files
- Reordering slides using the light table
- Using transitions to create moods
- Adding an audio soundtrack
- Controlling a presentation with builds
- Layering objects with master slides
- Build animations using actions
Developing a Custom Theme
- Selecting master slides
- Updating paragraph styles
- Modifying image placeholders
- Placing objects on master slides
- Saving themes
Rehearsing and Delivering a Presentation
- Playing a slideshow
- Rehearsing a slideshow
- Using an iOS device as a remote control
- Recording a narrated, self-playing presentation
- Creating a self-playing slideshow
- Designing a presentation with links
- Making Keynote handouts
- Performing presentation preflight checks
Day 3
Pages, Numbers and Keynote for iOS
- Signing in to iCloud
- Managing Pages documents in iOS
- Formatting documents
- Working with tables
- Using Keynote for iOS
- Adding photos and video
- Setting a document password
Moving Between iOS, iCloud, and OS X
- Opening an iOS document on your Mac
- Moving a Mac document to iCoud Drive
- Editing Pages without an Apple device
- Using Numbers forms on iOS
- Tidying up
Cancelling an Open Enrollment Registration
Cancellation policy:
If notice is given 15 or more calendar days before the start of a class, the student may receive a full refund less a $100 administrative fee. If notice is given less than 15 calendar days no rescheduling or efunds are permitted.
Rescheduling Policy
If notice Is given 15 or more calendar days before the start of the class a student may reschedule . A student can reschedule a class up to two (2) times. Additional reschedules will not be allowed.
No Shows if a student does not attend a scheduled session, there will be no refund or rescheduling permitted. Payment is forfeited. FMC reserves the right to cancel classes with insufficient enrollment or in other circumstances. FMC will endeavor to give as much advance notice as possible of any change to the schedule. FMC shall not be responsible for any incidental or consequential loss arising whatsoever.