PowerPoint 2003 - Introduction

Course Length: One Day
Fees: Training at Client Offices: One delegate: £395 per-day + VAT
Additional delegates attending: £75 each per-day + VAT

Overview: Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 is a presentation graphics program that produces dynamic and powerful slide shows containing text, graphics, and charts. You can use PowerPoint for formal and informal presentations and meetings, as well as for presentations on the Internet. Whether you are presenting an idea, plan, or complex report to a group, you can use PowerPoint to combine essential data, dramatic illustrations, animation, special effects, and timed sequences that convey your important points in an informative and convincing visual presentation.

PowerPoint incorporates a wide variety of tools and features for selecting fonts, formats, styles, and colours. You can import documents from word processing programs or worksheets and charts from spreadsheet applications.

This course is designed to help you to obtain the basic skills required to create and deliver a slide show to accompany a presentation. You will learn to use templates, layouts, and formatting tools to create slides incorporating text and graphics.

What is PowerPoint?

Understand the functions of a presentation graphics application • Understand some principles of presentation design • Recognise the different elements of the PowerPoint window • Select different views • Change the zoom setting

Creating a Presentation

Create a new presentation • Create a specific type of slide • Enter text onto a slide • Delete a slide

Entering and Editing Text

Move the insertion point • Select text • Insert new text • Type over existing text • Delete text • Use the Undo, Redo, and Repeat commands • Insert the date and time • Insert symbols and special characters • Create and modify speaker notes

Working with Objects

Select, position, and delete an object • Resize an object • Move or copy an object

Moving and Copying Data

Cut, Copy, and Paste with the Windows Clipboard using the menu, toolbars, and keyboard • Move and copy text from one presentation to another • Use the Paste Options smart tag to change the format of pasted text • Use drag-and-drop to move and copy text • Use Paste Special to choose different formats for data • Change the order of slidesvMove and copy slides between files • Delete slides

Inserting Pictures and Clip Art

Understand Object Linking and Embedding • Insert a Clip Art object • Insert a picture from a file • Insert a Print Screen graphic • Insert an image from a scanner or digital cameravModify a picture using the Picture toolbar • Crop a picture

Formatting Tools

Understand the proper use of fonts and formatting for a slide show • Change text fonts, enhancements, and colour • Change the text alignment • Change paragraph and line spacing • Add different graphical bullets • Add AutoNumber bullets • Use the Format Painter to copy formatting • Apply a slide background colour

Formatting Objects

Format shapes and objects (line, border, shading, shadow, 3-D)

Creating a Slide Show

Start a slide show on any slide • Get Help during a slide show • Use on-screen navigation tools • Hide a slide • Add animated transitions between slides • Animate objects on a slide using a preset scheme

Printing Slides and Handouts

Select an output format for a presentation • Preview the presentation in Print Preview • Preview a presentation in black and white and greyscale • Print slides in a variety of formats • Add and print speaker notes • Print audience handouts

Editing Text in Outline View

Enter and edit text in Outline view • Promote and demote text • Modify slide sequence in Outline view • Import text from Microsoft Word

Proofing Tools

Check spelling • AutoCorrect typing errors • Find and replace text

Using Templates and Masters

Create a presentation using a content template • Create a presentation using the AutoContent Wizard • Create a presentation from a design template • Apply a design template to an existing presentation or to selected slides • Modify the Slide, Title, Notes, and Handouts Masters • Work with multiple masters • Insert headers and footers and slide numbering

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