PowerPoint 2000: Introduction

Course length: 1 day (6 Hours)

Course description

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

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend students first take the Software Training course, Windows 98: Introduction, or have extensive equivalent knowledge.

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

Benefits: Students will learn how to create and edit bullet slides, use PowerPoint’s drawing tools, incorporate clip art and WordArt, create and enhance organization charts, and create and edit charts by using Microsoft Graph.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basic concepts involved in working with a personal computer. For example, students should be familiar with terms such as computer memory, data files, and program files. Students should also be familiar with the components that make up the PC, including input, output, and storage devices. No prior knowledge of PowerPoint is assumed.

What's next: PowerPoint 2000: Introduction is the first course in this series. PowerPoint 2000: Advanced, the next course in this series, teaches students how to work with templates and multimedia, how to customize toolbars, how to use the AutoCorrect and Style Check features, and how to collaborate on the Web.

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