DT019 - PowerPoint 2003 Level 1

In this one-day instructor-led course, students will create effective basic PowerPoint presentations for delivery in front of an audience.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have a thorough understanding of the introductory concepts and skills that will enable the participant to effectively use Microsoft PowerPoint.

Getting Started
• Starting Microsoft PowerPoint
• The Microsoft PowerPoint Window
• Toolbars
• Accessing Menus
• Personalised Menus
• Displaying Screentips
• Working with Dialog Boxes
• Closing a Presentation
• Opening an Existing Presentation
• Exiting Microsoft PowerPoint

View Options
• Switching Views
• Notes Page View
• Slide Sorter View
• Rearranging the Order of Slides
• Deleting a Slide in Slide Sorter View
• Slide Show View

Starting a New Presentation
• Saving a Presentation
• Creating a Blank Presentation
• Inserting New Slides
• Creating a Presentation Using the Outline Tab
• Selecting Text Using Outline
• Promoting and Demoting
• Moving Text Up and Down

Working with Text
• Moving, resizing a Text Placeholder
• Undo Actions and Redoing Undone Actions
• Cut, Copy and Paste
• Change Font and Point Size
• Adding Font Effects
• Using the Format Painter
• Line and Paragraph Spacing
• Changing Text Case
• Replacing Fonts

Using Bulleted Lists
• Adding a New Bulleted Slide
• Adding Points to a Bulleted List
• Creating Sub Points
• Changing the Bullet Symbol
• Working with Indents

Checking a Presentation
• Spell Checking a Presentation
• Automatically Check Spelling as You Type
• Using Autocorrect
• Checking a Presentation for Consistency
• Correcting Style Inconsistencies

Working with Clip Art
• Inserting, move, resize a Clip Art Graphic
• Importing Graphics into the Clip Gallery
• Clip Art on Office Online

Creating a Slide Show
• Adding Transitions
• Animation Schemes
• Adding Timings
• Running the Slide Show
• Controlling the Slide Show

Using Colour
• Adding Colour to a Presentation
• Choosing a Colour Scheme
• Changing the Background Colour
• Adding a Slide Background Picture

Using the Drawing Tools
• Drawing an Object
• Resizing, moving an Object
• Displaying and Hiding Guides
• Formatting a Drawing Object
• Changing the Fill of an Object
• Adding Text to an Object
• Grouping, Ungrouping and Re-Grouping Objects
• Deleting a Drawing Object
• Text Boxes
• Editing a Text Box
• Formatting a Text Box
• Deleting Text Boxes

Working with Clip Art
• Cropping a Clip Art Graphic
• Restoring a Cropped Clip Art Graphic
• Re-Colour a Clip Art Graphic
• Grouping and Ungrouping Individual Clip
• Art Graphics

Creating Charts
• Inserting a Chart Slide
• Entering Data
• Changing the Chart Type
• Plot Series by Columns or Rows
• Adding Titles
• Formatting Chart Titles
• Adding a Legend

Printing a Presentation
• Changing from Colour to Black and White View
• Setting Up the Pages
• Printing
• Using Print Preview

Using Help
• Type a Question Feature
• Using Offline Help
• The Office Assistant
• Customising the Office Assistant
• Hiding the Office Assistant
• Turning Off the Office Assistant
• Using Help within a Dialog Box

This course is designed for students who are interested in learning the fundamentals needed to create and modify basic Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentations. This course is also intended for students who wish to pursue their Microsoft Office Specialist certification in PowerPoint 2003.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Level 1 assumes little or no knowledge of the software. However, it would be beneficial to have a general understanding of personal computers and the Windows operating system.