Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (XP) & 2003: Introduction for Beginners (1 day)

Course Overview

In this programme, you will learn the basics and create presentations, drawings, and slide shows and develop skills to deliver electronic presentations.

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Related Courses

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (XP): Introduction for Beginners (1 day)
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (XP): Specialised (1day)

Audience

This programme is for you if you have no real experience in using PowerPoint and want to learn the fundamentals of this sophisticated presentation software package.

Skills Gained

Learn to:

• Open and browse through an existing presentation
• Create a new presentation
• Apply a design template to a presentation
• Print slides, handouts and notes pages
• Run a slide show
• Save and close a presentation
• Use tools on PowerPoint's drawing toolbar
• Use methods for displaying tabular information on a slide
• Use the Microsoft clip organiser and object linking and embedding capabilities of PowerPoint
• Use Microsoft graph
• Add visual interest to text on slides of a PowerPoint presentation

Prerequisites

No previous experience in using PowerPoint or any other presentation graphics program is required in this introductory programme. It is assumed, however, that you have:

• Knowledge of PC fundamentals and experience in working within the Windows environment
• A reasonable degree of keyboard and mouse proficiency

Course Outline

Getting started

• What is PowerPoint? Starting PowerPoint
• The PowerPoint application window, menus and toolbars
• Displaying help information; exiting from PowerPoint

Creating text slides

• Creating a new presentation
• Adding a new slide to a presentation
• Editing the text on a slide
• Working in the slides tab and the outline tab
• Resetting the line spacing of paragraphs on a slide
• Saving and closing a presentation

Using the drawing toolbar

• Reopening a presentation; moving a placeholder
• Adding an autoshape and adding text to an autoshape
• Printing slides

Creating a PowerPoint table

• Adding and formatting a PowerPoint table

Using the Microsoft clip organiser

• Inserting a clipart image into a slide
• Adding a text block to a slide

Using design templates

• Applying a design template to a presentation
• Modifying the colour scheme of slides; adding a footer to slides
• Modifying the slide master and title master

Creating speaker notes

• Entering text on a notes page
• Adding a header and footer to notes pages and handouts
• Using PowerPoint print optionsProducing a slide show
• Running a slide show; changing the order of slides in a slide show
• Adding transition effects to slides

Sharing data with Microsoft Excel

• What is object linking and embedding
• Linking, embedding and enhancing Microsoft Excel worksheet entries on a PowerPoint slide

Creating a PowerPoint chart

• Plotting a PowerPoint chart
• Modifying the components and editing the data in a PowerPoint chart

Adding special effects to text

• Creating an artistic text block
• Using the formatting toolbar to enhance text
• Using the format painter to copy text attributes
• Custom animation

Working with autoshapes

• Stacking autoshapes
• Changing the level of an autoshape
• Applying a transparent fill colour to an autoshape
• Grouping autoshapes
• Creating a three-dimensional autoshape

Additional slide show techniques

• Manually branching to a specific slide in a slide show
• Adding animation effects to slides
• Adding timings to slides

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (XP) & 2003: Introduction for Beginners (1 day) / PP031

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