Course description
Overview: Students will learn advanced features of PowerPoint including customizing templates and the PowerPoint environment and making a presentation interactive by using hyperlinks and action buttons. This course meets the Microsoft Proficiency Guidelines for PowerPoint 2000 at the Expert level.
Prerequisites: PowerPoint 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:
* Create a custom template by selecting a color scheme, background fill, fonts and clip art.
* Enhance a presentation by using custom clip art, animation, and movies.
* Work with embedded and imported objects by using Microsoft applications.
* Customize the PowerPoint environment by modifying toolbars and using the Options dialog box.
* Build interactive presentations by creating hyperlinks and action buttons and create custom slide shows.
* Become familiar with collaboration features by creating online meetings and broadcast presentations.
Course content
Lesson 1: Working with templates
Working with presentations
Creating your own template
Working with a design template
Lesson 2: Working with multimedia
Working with graphics and multimedia
Working with animation
Inserting movies and sound
Lesson 3: Working Within the Office Suite
Inserting Office objects
Creating slides from an outline
Sending slides to Microsoft Word
Lesson 4: Additional PowerPoint features
Customizing PowerPoint toolbars
Other customization options
Automating slide production
Using AutoCorrect and the Style Checker
Lesson 5: Building interactive presentations
Hyperlinks
Creating interactive objects
Slide show options
Lesson 6: Collaborating on the web
Holding online meetings
Broadcasting presentations
Delivering presentations