50130 - Learn Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Step by Step, Level 2

This one-day instructor-led course provides students with experience at creating more elaborate presentations in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Insert and format a table
• Insert and update an Excel worksheet
• Insert and format a chart
• Insert and format a diagram
• Convert existing bullet points into a diagram
• Insert and modify pictures
• Draw, modify, and connect shapes
• Insert and modify stylized text
• Align and stack graphics
• Animate slide elements
• Add transition effects
• Insert, play, and modify sounds
• Insert, play, and modify movies
• Create a hyperlink
• Attach an action to text or an object
• Save a presentation for the Web

Module 1: Tables
This module explains how to add tables to a PowerPoint presentation and format the tables, and how to insert Microsoft Office Excel worksheets and then update the worksheets.

Lessons
• Inserting and Formatting a Table
• Inserting and Updating an Excel Worksheet

Lab : Tables
• Create a table, modify its structure, and format it.
• Insert a worksheet as an embedded object.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Create and modify tables.
• Add tables from existing Excel worksheets.

Module 2: Charts and Diagrams
This module explains how to create and format charts and diagrams, and how to use diagrams rather than bullets to display information.

Lessons
• Inserting and Formatting a Chart
• Inserting and Formatting a Diagram
• Converting Existing Bullet Points into a Diagram

Lab : Charts and Diagrams
• Create, format, and update a chart.
• Create and modify a diagram.
• Add visual interest with a diagram instead of bullets.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Create charts and diagrams, and then update them.
• Change bullet points into a diagram.

Module 3: Other Visual Enhancements
This module explains how to insert and modify pictures and stylized text, and how to work with shapes and graphics.

Lessons
• Inserting and Modifying Pictures
• Drawing, Modifying, and Connecting Shapes
• Inserting and Modifying Stylized Text
• Aligning and Stacking Graphics

Lab : Other Visual Enhancements
• Add pictures to slides, and then format them.
• Draw, format, connect, and group shapes.
• Create and modify a WordArt object.
• Use various techniques to position graphics.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Enhance slides with pictures.
• Create and manipulate shapes.
• Use WordArt to create fancy titles.
• Change the relationship of graphics on a slide.

Module 4: Animation
This module explains how to animate text and graphics, and how to ensure a smooth transition from one slide to the next.

Lessons
• Animating Slide Elements
• Adding Transition Effects

Lab : Animation
• Apply animations to text and graphics.
• Apply and modify transitions.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Animate parts of a slide.
• Use transition effects as you move among slides.

Module 5: Sound and Movies
This module explains how to work with audio and video files.

Lessons
• Inserting, Playing, and Modifying Sounds
• Inserting, Playing, and Modifying Movies

Lab : Sound and Movies
• Insert, preview, and adjust sounds.
• Insert, preview, and adjust a video object.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Add, preview, play, and modify sounds and movies.

Module 6: Web Presentations
This module explains how to add hyperlinks to slides, attach actions to text or objects, and create a Web presentation.

Lessons
• Creating a Hyperlink
• Attaching an Action to Text or an Object
• Saving a Presentation for the Web

Lab : Web Presentations
• Insert hyperlinks to a message window and a Web page.
• Attach actions and sounds to text, and create navigation action buttons.
• Convert and edit a Web presentation.

After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Add hyperlinks to allow viewers to jump to related information
• Attach actions that perform tasks such as opening a program
• Convert presentations so that they can be viewed on the Web

This course is intended for information workers who want to learn intermediate-level PowerPoint 2007 skills.

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Basic computer knowledge
• Basic file-management skills
• Basic knowledge of the PowerPoint user interface and presentation creation