PowerPoint Complete

3-day workshop, $380 +tax
9:00 am-4:00 pm

Students will learn the basic and advanced skills necessary to create effective presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. Students will learn how to create and edit slides, incorporate clipart and charts, and run a slide show. Students should understand the basics of Microsoft Windows. Students will acquire PowerPoint skills with hands-on tutorials and instructor led demonstrations. Students will be expected to complete a short PowerPoint presentation at the end of the class.

Skills developed in this course:

• What’s New in PowerPoint 2003?
• Understanding the PowerPoint Program Screen
• Using Menus
• Using Toolbars and Creating a New Presentation
• Filling Out Dialog Boxes
• Keystroke and Right Mouse Button Shortcuts
• Opening a Presentation
• Saving and Closing a Presentation and Exiting PowerPoint
• Creating a New Presentation with the AutoContent Wizard
• Creating a Blank Presentation and Creating a Presentation from a Template
• Moving Around in Your Presentations
• Viewing Your Presentation
• Printing Your Presentation
• Getting Help
• Changing the Office Assistant and Using the “What’s This” Button
• Inserting Slides and Text
• Using the Outline Pane
• Editing Text
• Selecting, Replacing, and Deleting Text
• Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
• Using Undo, Redo, and Repeat
• Checking Your Spelling
• Finding and Replacing Information
• Viewing a Presentation’s Outline
• Rearranging a Presentation’s Outline
• Inserting Symbols and Special Characters
• Working in Slide Sorter View
• Adding Notes to Your Slides
• Working with Multiple Windows
• Collecting and Pasting Multiple Items
• Understanding Smart Tags
• Recovering Your Presentations
• Formatting Fonts with the Formatting Toolbar
• Advanced Font Formatting with Font Dialog Box
• Using the Format Painter
• Applying a Template’s Formatting
• Using the Slide Master
• Choosing a Color Scheme
• Changing the Background of Your Slides
• Working with Bulleted and Numbered Lists
• Changing Paragraph Alignment and Line Spacing
• Adding Headers and Footers
• Working with Tabs and Indents
• Changing the Page Setup
• Drawing on Your Slides
• Adding, Arranging, and Formatting Text Boxes
• Selecting, Resizing, Moving, and Deleting Objects
• Formatting Objects
• Inserting Clipart
• Inserting and Formatting Pictures
• Aligning and Grouping Objects
• Drawing AutoShapes
• Flipping and Rotating Objects
• Layering Objects
• Applying Shadows and 3-D Effects
• Creating a Table
• Working with a Table
• Adjusting Column Width and Row Height
• Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
• Adding Borders to a Table
• Adding Shading and Fills
• Inserting a WordArt Object
• Formatting a WordArt Object
• Creating a Chart
• Modifying a Chart
• Selecting a Chart Type
• Creating an Organization Chart
• Modifying your Organization Chart
• Formatting Your Organization Chart
• Delivering a Presentation on a Computer
• Using Slide Transitions
• Using an Animation Scheme
• Using Custom Animations
• Rehearsing Slide Show Timings
• Creating a Presentation that Runs by Itself
• Creating a Custom Show
• Packaging and Copying a Presentation to CD
• Viewing a Packaged Presentation
• Inserting Sounds
• Adding Voice Narration to Your Slides
• Inserting a Video Clip
• Automating the Multimedia in Your Presentation
• Inserting a Slide into a Microsoft Word Document
• Embedding a Microsoft Excel Worksheet into a Slide
• Modifying an Embedded Object
• Inserting a Linked Excel Chart
• Importing and Exporting an Outline
• Using Hyperlinks
• Using Action Buttons
• Saving a Presentation as a Web Page
• Viewing a Web-Based Presentation
• Hiding, Displaying, and Moving Toolbars
• Customizing PowerPoint’s Toolbars
• Sending Faxes
• Adding Comments to a Slide
• Customizing PowerPoint’s Default Options
• File Properties and Finding a File
• Recording a Macro
• Playing and Editing a Macro