Power Session Outlines

PowerPoint 2000 Overview

Objective:
Learn the terminology of Microsoft PowerPoint and develop the skills to create and work with basic presentations.

Prerequisite Skills:
Comfortable with the Windows environment.

Course Description:
Do you want to create eye-catching presentations? Do you want to give your audience handouts of your slides? Do you want to learn to navigate in PowerPoint 2000?

Attend this course if you want to:

• Create a presentation based on a template.
• Create a brand new presentation.
• Easily move from slide to slide in a presentation.
• Add text and graphics to a slide.
• Open, edit, save, and delete presentations.
• Use on-line help to answer your PowerPoint questions.

PowerPoint 97/2000 New Features

Objective:
Learn features new to PowerPoint 97 and 2000.

Prerequisite Skills:

• Comfortable with the Windows environment.
• Comfortable with Microsoft PowerPoint 95 basics.

Course Description:
Have you recently upgraded from PowerPoint 95 to PowerPoint 97 or 2000? This course covers the most significant changes in PowerPoint 97 and 2000, with an emphasis on the features of PowerPoint 2000.

Attend this course if you want to:

• Learn about PowerPoint 2000's "adaptive" menus and toolbars.
• Learn to use the Office Assistant and to access Help.
• Understand the new components of the Open and Save As dialog boxes.
• Use the Office 2000 Clipboard to copy and paste multiple items.
• Use PowerPoint 2000's new templates.
• Change colored slides to grayscale.
• Use clip art with PowerPoint 2000.
• Understand the new drawing tools and features.
• Create animation effects.
• Create and use hyperlinks in a presentation.
• Use new presentation controls.
• Create and run custom slide shows.

PowerPoint 2000 Formatting Presentations

Objective:
Learn to format presentations using the text, bullets and numbering, and color options, as well as applying predefined templates.

Prerequisite Skills:
Comfortable with basic PowerPoint capabilities.
(Suggested Course: PowerPoint 2000 Overview)

Course Description:
Do you want your presentations to really capture your audience's attention? Do you want to design your presentation so that the same text or graphic (e.g., a logo) appears in the same spot on every slide? Do you want to learn which colors work best together?

Attend this course if you want to:

• Use PowerPoint's built-in templates to enhance the appearance of your presentation.
• Format text and bullets on your slides.
• Change the color scheme and backgrounds of your presentation.
• Add clip art to your slides.
• Consistently format slides using the Slide Master.
• Make your title slide stand out using the Title Master.
• Create your own template.
• Use the style checker to look for inconsistencies within your presentation.

PowerPoint 2000 Slide Shows

Objective:
Learn to use the capabilities of PowerPoint for presenting electronic slide shows.

Prerequisite Skills:
Comfortable with PowerPoint and its formatting capabilities.
(Suggested Courses: PowerPoint 2000 Overview and PowerPoint 2000 Formatting Presentations)

Course Description:
Are you scheduled to give a presentation? Are you comfortable using PowerPoint in front of a group? Do you want to customize your presentation "on the fly"? Do you want to give your audience copies of your presentation?

Attend this course if you want to:

• Run a slide show.
• Navigate between slides.
• Hide slides for a particular audience.
• Rearrange your slides.
• Add a blank slide to the end of the presentation.
• Customize a slide show for a particular audience.
• Add visual effects for moving from one slide to another.
• Add animation effects to your presentation.
• Add action buttons to the slide that can be invoked during the presentation.
• Add links to another slide, slide show, or Web page.
• Set up a presentation to run automatically.
• Create speaker notes and handouts.
• Pack up a presentation to run on another computer.

PowerPoint 2000 Tips & Shortcuts

Objective:
Learn features to enable more efficient use of PowerPoint.

Prerequisite Skills:

• Comfortable with PowerPoint and its formatting capabilities.
  (Suggested Courses: PowerPoint 2000 Overview and PowerPoint 2000 Formatting Presentations)

• Comfortable setting up and running slide shows in PowerPoint.
  (Suggested Course: PowerPoint 2000 Slide Shows)

Course Description:
Are you using the most efficient methods to accomplish tasks in PowerPoint 2000? Could you save time with shortcut menus and keyboard shortcuts? Do you need help designing a presentation?

Attend this course if you want to:

• Learn to save time by using shortcut menus.
• Save time with keyboard shortcuts.
• Resize text to fit better on a slide.
• Add time, date, page numbers, or text to slides.
• Alter the background of imported pictures.
• Create animation effects with objects.