Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003: Level 2

Course Specifications

Course Length:  1 Day, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm

Location: Entre Technology Services, LLC  1501 N. 14th St. West, Suite 1511

Registration: Call your Account Manager at 406.256.5700 or use our Registration Forms

Course Description

As a Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 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 Objective:  

You will use Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 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.

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 desire to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2003 and who already have knowledge of the basics of Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2003, including slide formatting, working with tables, images, and objects, charting data, and presentation preparation.

Prerequisites:  

To ensure your success, we recommend that you have taken the Element K courses or possess equivalent knowledge.

Windows XP: Introduction
Windows 2000: Introduction
Microsoft PowerPoint 2003: Level 1
Web browsing experience is also strongly recommended.

Delivery Method:  

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

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 Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 slide.
Create a Web-based Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 presentation.
Use a Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 presentation for collaborative workgroup review.
Use functionality that will enable you to deliver live, self-service, and online presentations.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating a Custom Design Template

Define Design Template Characteristics
Create a Custom Color Scheme
Set Up a Slide Master
Format Custom Bullets
Add a Footer
Modify the Notes Master
Save a Custom Design Template

Lesson 2: Adding Organization Charts and Diagrams

Working with Organization Charts
Update an Organization Chart
Applying a Chart Layout
Create a Diagram
Draw a Flowchart

Lesson 3: Adding Special Effects

Add Sound and Movies
Add Animation
Emphasize Objects
Set a Motion Path
Set the Order of Effects

Lesson 4: Creating Web Presentations

Create a Group Home Page with the AutoContent Wizard
Hyperlink to a Web Page
Publish as a Web Page

Lesson 5: Collaborating in PowerPoint

Set Password Protection
Work with Comments
Send a Presentation for Review
Merge Revision Copies
Apply Reviewer Changes

Lesson 6: Delivering a Presentation

Hyperlink Within PowerPoint
Add an Action Button
Set Up a Custom Show
Annotate a Presentation
Working with Narrations and Slide Timings
Set Up a Slide Show to Repeat Automatically