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Overview
As a Microsoft? Office PowerPoint? 2004 for Macintosh user familiar with the basics, you're able to convey information clearly without much glitz. That's okay, but you can do better?audiences expect more than the basics. In this course, you will enhance presentations with features that will transform basic presentations into those with a powerful means of communication.
Course Objectives
You will use PowerPoint features that draw, animate, and format presentations with professional-quality content such that they may be communicated to a wide variety of live, remote, and self-service audiences.
Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend that you have taken the possess equivalent knowledge.
- Macintosh OS X: Introduction
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2004 for Macintosh: Level 1
Web browsing experience is also strongly recommended.
Target Student
This course is designed for students who desire to gain the skills necessary to work with design templates, organizational charts, special effects, Web presentations, collaboration functionality, and advanced presentation delivery, or students who already have knowledge of the basics of Microsoft? Office PowerPoint? 2004 for Macintosh, including slide formatting, working with tables, images, and objects, charting data, and presentation preparation.
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create a design template.
- Create organization charts and diagrams.
- Add special effects to a PowerPoint slide.
- Create a Web-based Microsoft? PowerPoint? 2004 presentation.
- Use a Microsoft? PowerPoint? 2004 presentation for collaborative workgroup review.
- Use functionality that will enable you to deliver live, self-service, and online presentations.
Delivery Method
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Course duration
1 Day(s)
Course outline
Lesson
1: Creating a Custom Design Template
- Topic 1A: Define Design Template Characteristics
- Topic 1B: Create a Custom Color Scheme
- Topic 1C: Set Up a Slide Master
- Topic 1D: Format Custom Bullets
- Topic 1E: Add a Footer
- Topic 1F: Modify the Notes Master
- Topic 1G:
Save a Custom Design Template
Lesson
2: Adding Organization Charts and Diagrams
- Topic 2A: Work with Organization Charts
- Topic 2B: Update an Organization Chart
- Topic 2C: Apply a Chart Style
- Topic 2D: Create a Diagram
- Topic 2E:
Draw a Flowchart
Lesson
3: Adding Special Effects
- Topic 3A: Add Sound and Movies
- Topic 3B: Add Animation
- Topic 3C: Emphasize Objects
- Topic 3D:
Set the Order of Effects
Lesson
4: Creating Web Presentations
- Topic 4A: Create a Group Home Page with the AutoContent
Wizard
- Topic 4B: Hyperlink to a Web Page
- Topic 4C:
Publish as a Web Page
Lesson
5: Collaborating in PowerPoint
- Topic 5A: Work with Comments
- Topic 5B: Send a Presentation for Review
- Topic 5C: Merge Revision Copies
- Topic 5D:Apply Reviewer Changes
Lesson
6: Delivering a Presentation
- Topic 6A: Hyperlinks Within PowerPoint
- Topic 6B: Add an Action Button
- Topic 6C: Set Up a Custom Show
- Topic 6D: Annotate a Presentation
- Topic 6E: Work with Slide Timings
- Topic 6F:Set Up a Slide Show to Repeat Automatically
Platform Requirements
Hardware Requirements
For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware components:
- 800-MHz PowerPC G4.
- 256-MB SDRAM.
- 434 MB of available hard-disk space is recommended for installing PowerPoint by using the Office Setup Assistant; 460 MB for installing PowerPoint by dragging the Microsoft Office 2004 folder to your hard disk. The hard disk should be in Mac OS Extended (HFS+) format, the default format for Mac OS X.
- A CD-ROM drive.
- A mouse or other pointing device.
- A 1024 x 768 or higher resolution monitor.
- Network cards and cabling for local network access.
- Internet access (see your local network administrator).
- A printer (optional).
- A projection system to display the instructor's computer screen.
- For this course, it is assumed that you are using a keyboard that does not require the use of function key combinations.
Software Requirements
- Mac OS X v10.3.
- Microsoft? Office 2004 for Macintosh
