PowerPoint 97: Introduction

Course length: 1 day

Course description

Overview: Students will learn the basic skills necessary to begin effectively creating presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint 97. This course meets the Microsoft Proficiency Guidelines for PowerPoint at the Expert level.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend students first take the Software Training course, Windows 98: Introduction, or have extensive equivalent knowledge.

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

Benefits: Students will learn how to start the program, create and edit slides, incorporate clip art and charts, and run a slide show.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basic concepts involved in working with a personal computer (PC). No prior knowledge of PowerPoint is assumed.

What's next: PowerPoint 97: Introduction is the first course in this series. Software Training’s PowerPoint 97: Advanced, the next course in this series, teaches students how to use advanced features of PowerPoint 97.

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:

• Start the PowerPoint program, identify on-screen features, and navigate through a presentation.
• Create and edit bullet slides.
• Use PowerPoint’s drawing tools to create a slide.
• Incorporate clip art and WordArt objects in a slide.
• Create and enhance organization charts, and create and edit charts by using Microsoft Graph.
• Change the overall appearance of a presentation by using design templates and the Slide Master.
• Run a slide show, become familiar with slide show options, and add notes to a slide.

Course content

Lesson 1: Introduction to PowerPoint

Starting PowerPoint and opening a presentation

Orientation to the PowerPoint presentation screen

Orientation to views

Lesson 2: Beginning a presentation

Creating a title and bullet slide in Slide view

Creating a slide in Outline view

Editing slides

Spelling

Lesson 3: Drawing tools

Working with drawing tools

Working with text and drawn objects

Enhancing drawn objects

Lesson 4: Clip art and WordArt

Using clip art

Using WordArt

Lesson 5: Organization charts and Microsoft Graph

Creating an organization chart

Organization-chart options

Orientation to Microsoft Graph

Editing a column chart

Lesson 6: Templates and the Slide Master

Selecting and applying a template

Changing text and bullets in the Slide Master

Removing Slide Master objects and adding a footer

Lesson 7: Slide shows, output, and presentation options

Slide show options

Adding transitions and animation to a slide show

Running a manual and an automatic slide show

Working with speaker notes

Printing a presentation