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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: Making the Transition
Performance-Based Objectives
- 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 edit 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.
Delivery Method
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Course duration
1 Day(s)
Course outline
Lesson 1: Introduction to PowerPoint
- Topic 1A: Starting PowerPoint and opening a presentation
- Topic 1B: Orientation to the PowerPoint presentation screen
- Topic 1C: Orientation to views
Lesson 2: Beginning a presentation
- Topic 2A: Creating a title and bullet slide in Slide view
- Topic 2B: Creating a slide in Outline view
- Topic 2C: Editing slides
- Topic 2D: Spelling
Lesson 3: Drawing tools
- Topic 3A: Working with drawing tools
- Topic 3B: Working with text and drawn objects
- Topic 3C: Enhancing drawn objects
Lesson 4: Clip art and WordArt
- Topic 4A: Using clip art
- Topic 4B: Using WordArt
Lesson 5: Organization charts and Microsoft Graph
- Topic 5A: Creating an organization chart
- Topic 5B: Organization-chart options
- Topic 5C: Orientation to Microsoft Graph
- Topic 5D: Editing a column chart
Lesson 6: Templates and the Slide Master
- Topic 6A: Selecting and applying a template
- Topic 6B: Changing text and bullets in the Slide Master
- Topic 6C: Removing Slide Master objects and adding a footer
Lesson 7: Slide shows, output, and presentation options
- Topic 7A: Slide show options
- Topic 7B: Adding transitions and animation to a slide show
- Topic 7C: Running a manual and an automatic slide show
- Topic 7D: Working with speaker notes
- Topic 7E: Printing a presentation
Hardware/Software Requirements
You will need:
- 8 megabytes (MB) of Random Access Memory (RAM) for use on Windows 95 (16 MB
is recommended); 16 MB of RAM for use on Windows NT Workstation.
- 80 MB of available space on the hard drive for a Custom installation of PowerPoint.
- A personal computer with a 386 DX or higher processor (a 486 is recommended).
- Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation
operating system version 3.51 or later. (PowerPoint 97 will not run on earlier versions
of Windows.)
- 3.5” high-density disk drive.
- Windows-compatible mouse and printer.
