Quick Launch - PowerPoint

Course Length: 1/2 day, 8-12 or 1-5 pm

Course Description

Overview: 

Students enrolling in this course will learn the basics for creating and revising presentation using PowerPoint 2002. Topics covered include creating a presentation, editing text, formatting text, images and shapes, and SlideShow and printing options.

Benefits: 

After taking this course, students will be able to create, edit, format, and print basic presentations using PowerPoint.

Target student: 

The target student for this course is someone who is comfortable with the Windows environment, and who needs to learn the basics of PowerPoint for getting his or her work done.

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Create a basic presentation with and without design templates.
Work with text and images on slides – creating, moving and copying items.
Use the Outline window to create and modify slides.
Change the appearance of text, images and shapes by using a variety of formatting techniques.
Use a variety of techniques to manipulate multiple slides in a presentation.
Apply animation to objects and set up a slide show.

Presentation Templates
Presentation Designs
Objects On A Slide
More Slides

Text Boxes
Sizing Text Boxes
Positioning
WordArt
Fonts
Sizes

Create Shapes
Add text
Format Shapes
Lines
Line and Border Patterns

ClipArt
Pictures: Bitmaps, JPEGS, GIFS
Text to AutoShape or Text Box
Slides from PowerPoint presentation
Graphs from Excel

Multiple selection: Shift-Click and Selection box
Group, ungroup, regroup
Color In PowerPoint
Rotate and Flip
Draw-Free Rotate or Rotate tool button
Align and Order Objects

Animating Text
Animating An Object
Automatic vs Attended
Slide timing
Transitions
Printing: Slide Sheets
Handouts
Note Pages
Outline