PowerPoint 2000: Advanced

Course length: 1 day (6 Hours)

Course description

Overview: Students will build upon the skills developed in PowerPoint 2000: Introduction, learning 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: To ensure your continued success, students must first complete the Software Training course, PowerPoint 2000: Introduction or have extensive equivalent knowledge, and have a basic understanding of your computer's operating system, and the Internet. For example, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media. The classes, Windows 98: Introduction, and Internet Explorer 5.x are designed to teach these skills, though they are not required.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Benefits: Students will learn how to enhance a presentation by using custom clip art, animation, and movies and work with embedded and imported objects by using Microsoft applications.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should have a working knowledge of PowerPoint, as well as a basic understanding of word processing and spreadsheet concepts.

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

Task A-1: Comparing Design Templates and Presentations

Task A-2: Observing individual slides in a presentation

Task A-3: Entering your own data

Task A-4: Applying a different design template

Task B-1: Beginning with a blank presentation

Task B-2: Creating a custom background fill

Task B-3: Inserting a graphic logo

Task B-4: Changing the default font and font size in a template

Task B-5: Saving a template

Task C-1: Creating a new presentation from a template

Lesson 2: Working with multimedia

Task A-1: Inserting and scaling clip art

Task A-2: Changing the color of clip art objects

Task A-3: Adding graphic objects to the clip art gallery

Task A-4: Creating pictures

Task B-1: Animating objects on a slide

Task B-2: Changing animation order and timing

Task C-1: Inserting a movie into a presentation

Task C-2: Adding text to a slide

Task C-3: Inserting a background sound

Lesson 3: Working Within the Office Suite

Task A-1: Inserting an Excel worksheet

Task A-2: Editing data in an embedded worksheet

Task A-3: Enhancing an embedded worksheet

Task B-1: Exploring a Word outline

Task B-2: Inserting slides from an outline

Task C-1: Sending slides to Microsoft Word

Lesson 4: Additional PowerPoint features

Task A-1: Viewing toolbar options and removing toolbars

Task A-2: Moving the toolbars

Task A-3: Adding and removing buttons

Task A-4: Additional toolbar options

Task B-1: Examining View options

Task B-2: Examining Edit options

Task C-1: Duplicating slide content

Task C-2: Creating a summary slide

Task D-1: Using the AutoCorrect feature

Task D-2: Deleting an AutoCorrect entry

Task D-3: Observing StyleChecker options

Task D-4: Using the Style Checker

Lesson 5: Building interactive presentations

Task A-1: Inserting an internal hyperlink

Task A-2: Inserting an external hyperlink

Task A-3: Linking to an external file

Task B-1: Observing Action button settings

Task B-2: Inserting an Action button

Task B-3: Changing Action button properties

Task B-4: Testing Action buttons

Task C-1: Setting Slide Show options

Task C-2: Rehearse timings

Task C-3: Creating a custom slide show

Lesson 6: Collaborating on the web

Task A-1: Exploring Online Meetings

Task B-1: Examining an Online Broadcast

Task B-2: Viewing Online Broadcast options

Task C-1: Using the Pack And Go Wizard

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