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Overview
Students will learn advanced features of PowerPoint, as well as how to embed Microsoft Word tables and Microsoft Excel charts in a presentation. Students should have a working knowledge of PowerPoint, as well as a basic understanding of word processing and spreadsheet concepts.
Prerequisites
To ensure students’ success with this course, we recommend that they first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:
- Windows 95: Introduction
- PowerPoint 97: Introduction (Windows 95)
Performance-Based Objectives
- Create a custom template by selecting a color scheme, background fill, and fonts.
- Enhance a presentation by using graphic objects.
- Examine the concept of embedded and imported information by using Microsoft
applications.
- Enhance a slide containing a flow chart by using advanced drawing techniques.
- Customize the PowerPoint environment by modifying toolbars and using the Options
dialog box.
- Enhance a presentation by using animation.
- Bring PowerPoint meeting notes into Word by using the Meeting Minder.
Delivery Method
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Course duration
1 Day(s)
Course outline
Lesson 1: Working with templates
- Topic 1A: Working with presentations
- Topic 1B: Creating your own template
- Topic 1C: Working with fonts
Lesson 2: Working with graphic objects
- Topic 2A: Working with clip art
- Topic 2B: Using AutoCorrect and the Style Checker
Lesson 3: Importing and embedding objects
- Topic 3A: Creating a table
- Topic 3B: Enhancing the table
- Topic 3C: Editing the table
- Topic 3D: Importing and embedding charts
Lesson 4: Advanced drawing techniques
- Topic 4A: Aligning and rotating flow-chart objects
- Topic 4B: Enhancing flow-chart objects
Lesson 5: Additional PowerPoint features
- Topic 5A: Customizing PowerPoint toolbars
- Topic 5B: Other customization options
- Topic 5C: Working with the Internet and hyperlinks
Lesson 6: Examining animation and multimedia
- Topic 6A: Working with animation
- Topic 6B: Multimedia
Lesson 7: Working with meeting notes
- Topic 7A: Using the Meeting Minder
- Topic 7B: Sending slides to Word
Hardware/Software Requirements
- 8 megabytes (MB) of Random Access Memory (RAM) for use on Windows 95 (16 MB
recommended); 16 MB of RAM for use on Windows NT Workstation
- 121 MB of hard-disk space for Custom installation of PowerPoint, Word, and
Excel.
- a personal computer with a 386 DX or higher processor (486 recommended)
- Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation
operating system version 3.51 or later (will not run on earlier versions of Windows)
- 3.5” high-density disk drive
- Windows-compatible mouse and printer
You will also need an installed sound card and speakers if you want to hear the animation
effects applied in the course.
See your reference manual for hardware considerations that apply to your specific hardware setup.
