PowerPoint 2000 --

Courses Available: Beginning and Advanced

Beginning PowerPoint 2000


Full Day

Students learn the basics of working with a graphical program: how to create graphic slides and how to show graphic presentations. Introduction to Windows 95 course required or equivalent knowledge.



Introduction to PowerPoint

• Starting PowerPoint and opening a presentation
• Exploring the Powerpoint Window
• Exploring Different Powerpoint Views

Beginning a presentation
• Creating a title and bullet slide
• Creating a slide in Outline view
• Modifying Slide Text
• Spelling

Drawing tools
• Working with drawing tools
• Working with text and drawn objects
• Enhancing drawn objects

Clip art and WordArt
• Using clip art
• Using WordArt
• Inserting a Table

Organization charts
• Creating an organization chart
• Organization Chart options
• Orientation to Microsoft Graph
• Editing a Column Chart

Templates and the Slide Master
• Selecting and applying a template
• Changing text and bullets in the Slide Master
• Removing objects and adding objects to the Slide Master

Slide shows, Output, and Presentation Options
• Slide-show options
• Adding transitions and builds to a slide show
• Running a manual and an automatic slide show
• Working with Notes
• Printing a Presentation

Preparing Presentations for the Web
• Using the AutoContent Wizard
• Saving Presentations for Internet Delivery and Viewing





PowerPoint 2000 - Level 2 Advanced


Full Day

Students learn how to customize templates and to make a presentation interactive by using hyperlinks and action buttons. Introduction to Windows 95/98 and PowerPoint beginning level required or equivalent knowledge.

Working with Templates
• Working with presentations
• Comparing design templates and presentations
• Observing individual slides in a presentation
• Entering your own data
• Applying a different design template
• Creating your own template
• Beginning with a blank presentation
• Creating a custom back-ground fill
• Inserting a graphic logo
• Changing the default font
and font size in a template
• Saving a template
• Working with a design template
• Creating a new presentation from a template

Working with Multimedia
• Working with graphics and multimedia
• Inserting and scaling clip art
• Changing the color of clip art objects
• Adding graphic objects to the clip art gallery
• Creating pictures
• Working with animation
• Animating objects on a slide
• Changing animation order and timing
• Inserting movies and sound
• Inserting a movie into a presentation
• Adding text to a slide
• Inserting a background sound

Working Within the Office Suite
• Inserting Office objects
• Inserting an Excel worksheet
• Editing data in an embedded worksheet
• Enhancing an embedded worksheet
• Creating slides from an outline
• Exploring a Word outline
• Inserting slides from an outline
• Sending slides to Microsoft Word

Additional PowerPoint Features
• Customizing PowerPoint toolbars
• Viewing toolbar options and removing toolbars
• Moving toolbars
• Adding and removing buttons
• Additional toolbar options
• Other customization options
• Examining View options
• Examining Edit options
• Automating slide presentation
• Duplicating slide content
• Creating a summary slide
• Using the AutoCorrect and the Style Checker
• Using the AutoCorrect feature
• Deleting an AutoCorrect entry
• Observing StyleChecker options
• Using the Style Checker

Building Interactive Presentations
• Hyperlinks
• Inserting an internal hyperlink
• Inserting an external hyperlink
• Linking to an external file
• Creating interactive objects
• Observing Action button settings
• Inserting an Action button
• Changing Action button properties
• Testing Action buttons
• Slide show options
• Setting slide show options
• Rehearse timings
• Creating a custom slide show

Collaborating on the Web
• Holding Online meetings
• Exploring Online meetings
• Broadcasting presentations
• Examining an Online Broadcast
• Viewing Online Broadcast options
• Delivering presentations
• Using the Pack And Go Wizard