Course description
Overview: Students will learn the basic skills necessary to create effective presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000.
Prerequisites: Students should understand the basics of Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or 2000 and PowerPoint.
Skills List
Students are introduced to the following essential and extended skills in this course:
Essential Skills
Apply a new template design to a presentation
Change bullet types
Change text alignment
Change to various views
Check spelling
Create a graph
Create a new presentation
Cut, copy, and paste text and objects
Delete text, objects, and slides
Edit text
Enter text
Format text
Insert a date
Insert a Microsoft Word table
Insert a new slide
Insert clip art
Modify clip art
Modify line spacing
Move slides in a presentation
Move text in a presentation
Navigate through a presentation
Open and close a presentation
Play a slide show
Promote and Demote text
Save (update) a presentation
Save a presentation with a new name
Select text and objects
Use AutoLayouts
Use a template to create a presentation
Use Microsoft Help
Use the AutoContent wizard
Use the Drawing toolbar
Use ScreenTips
Extended Skills
Add text to AutoShapes
Apply slide transitions
Automate a slide show
Change a slide's color scheme
Change clip art colors
Create, edit, and format an organizational chart
Create hyperlinks
Create WordArt
Crop a clip art image
Draw AutoShapes
Format AutoShapes
Group selected objects
Insert a clip-art image from file
Insert footers
Insert text
Modify an existing chart
Print speaker notes
Save As HTML
Ungroup an object
Use Notes Page View
Use text animation
Use the Slide Master
Use Undo
LearnPro: Applying PowerPoint 2000 (continued)
Course content
Case 1: Initial Exploration
Group Session
Case 2: Using Outline View to Edit a Presentation
Case 3: Creating a New Presentation Using the AutoContent Wizard
Case 4: Editing and Formatting in Slide View
Case 5: Applying a New Template
Case 6: Creating a New Presentation with a Word Table
Case 7: Automating a Slide Show, Creating Slide Transitions, and Animating Text
Case 8: Modifying a Chart
Case 9: Using the Drawing Toolbar
Case 10: Creating an Organizational Chart
Case 11: Modifying a Chart
Case 12: Applying a Template and Changing its Colors
Case 13: Creating Speaker Notes and Audience Handouts
Case 14: Using the WordArt Feature
Case 15: Using Slide Master to Apply Changes to a Presentation
Case 16: Exploring the Internet Features