PowerPoint 97: Advanced

Course length: 1 day

Course description

Overview: Students will learn advanced features of PowerPoint, as well as how to embed Microsoft Word tables and Microsoft Excel charts in a presentation. This course meets the Microsoft Proficiency Guidelines for PowerPoint at the Expert level.

Prerequisites: To ensure your continued success, students must first complete the Software Training course PowerPoint 97: Introduction, or have extensive equivalent knowledge, and have a basic understanding of your computer's operating system, and the Internet. For example, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media. The classes, Windows 98: Introduction, and Internet Explorer 5.x are designed to teach these skills, though they are not required.

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

Benefits: Students will learn how to create their own presentation template and use advanced drawing techniques. They will also be introduced to the Meeting Minder and animation effects.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should have a working knowledge of PowerPoint, as well as a basic understanding of word processing and spreadsheet concepts.

Performance-based objectives

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 custom template by selecting a color scheme, background fill, and fonts.
• Enhance a presentation by using graphic objects.
• Examine the concept of embedded and imported information by using Microsoft applications.
• Enhance a slide containing a flow chart by using advanced drawing techniques.
• Customize the PowerPoint environment by modifying toolbars and using the Options dialog box.
• Enhance a presentation by using animation.
• Bring PowerPoint meeting notes into Word by using the Meeting Minder.

Course content

Lesson 1: Working with templates

Working with presentations

Creating your own template

Working with fonts

Lesson 2: Working with graphic objects

Working with clip art

Using AutoCorrect and the Style Checker

Lesson 3: Importing and embedding objects

Creating a table

Enhancing the table

Editing the table

Importing and embedding charts

Lesson 4: Advanced drawing techniques

Aligning and rotating flow-chart objects

Enhancing flow-chart objects

Lesson 5: Additional PowerPoint features

Customizing PowerPoint toolbars

Other customization options

Working with the Internet and hyperlinks

Lesson 6: Examining animation and multimedia

Working with animation

Multimedia

Lesson 7: Working with meeting notes

Using the Meeting Minder

Sending slides to Word