Microsoft PowerPoint

Versions available: 00 & 03 Length:  Two 3½ hour Classes Prerequisite: Essentials of Windows (any version)

PowerPoint is the tool of choice if you want to create and give powerful presentations. In no time at all, you’ll learn how to use the different views to create a professional presentation. You’ll see how to format a presentation, apply templates & colors, then insert, edit, delete, copy, move and replace text. You’ll come away knowing how to find answers to any PowerPoint question with the powerful help features. To make the presentation dazzling, you’ll learn how to insert and format objects and graphics, and create special effects. After you’re finished creating the presentation, you’ll learn how to control a presentation, or have it run all by itself! Finally, you’ll be able to preview and print the presentation so that your audience will have something to remember you by, besides that great presentation!

Get Started

• Understand the parts of the PowerPoint window

• Use Help

Create a Presentation 

• Use Outline View to create slides and bullets 

• Edit text 

• Cut/Copy/Paste text 

• Save the presentation 

• Open an existing presentation

Templates and Color Schemes

• Run the slide show 

• Apply an existing design template 

• Choose a color scheme 

• Change a scheme color

Format the Presentation

• Change the slide layout 

• Understand the Slide Master 

• Format the slide text 

• Adjust text alignments 

• Create and modify text bullets

Add Graphics and Objects

• Understand object types 

• Draw an object 

• Resize and move objects

• Format a drawing object 

• Group objects together 

• Insert a Clipart object 

• Create special text objects 

• Insert other new or existing objects

Run the Slide Show

• Create transitions between slides 

• Build bullet transitions 

• Rehearse slide timings 

• Control the slide show

Print the Presentation