PowerPoint 2000: Introduction

Course description

Overview: Students will learn the basic skills necessary to begin effectively creating presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Prerequisites: Windows 95, 98, or 2000: Introduction, or equivalent knowledge.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

*     Start the PowerPoint program, identify on-screen features, and navigate through a presentation.

*     Create and edit bullet slides.

*     Use PowerPoint’s drawing tools to create a slide.

*     Incorporate clip art and WordArt objects in a slide.

*     Create and enhance organization charts, and create and edits charts by using Microsoft Graph.

*     Change the overall appearance of a presentation by using design templates and the Slide Master.

*     Run a slide show, become familiar with slide show options, and add notes to a slide.

*     Preview and save a PowerPoint presentation as a Web page and open a locally stored presentation in Internet Explorer.

Course content

Lesson 1: Introduction to PowerPoint

Starting PowerPoint and opening a presentation

Orientation to the PowerPoint presentation screen

Orientation to views

Lesson 2: Beginning a presentation

Creating a title and bullet slide

Creating a slide in Outline view

Editing slides

Spelling

Lesson 3: Drawing tools

Working with drawing tools

Working with text and drawn objects

Enhancing drawn objects

Lesson 4: Clip art and WordArt

Using clip art

Inserting a table

Using WordArt

Lesson 5: Organization charts and Microsoft Graph

Creating an organization chart

Organization-chart options

Orientation to Microsoft Graph

Editing a column chart

Lesson 6: Templates and the Slide Master

Selecting a template

Changing text and bullets in the Slide Master

Removing Slide Master objects and adding a footer

Lesson 7: Slide shows, output, and presentation options

Slide show options

Adding transitions and animation to a slide show

Running a manual and an automatic slide show

Working with speaker notes

Printing a presentation

Lesson 8: Saving presentations for Internet viewing and delivery

Using HTML as a PowerPoint file format