Introductory Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Training Courses

Getting Started

First Steps with Microsoft PowerPoint - opening, creating a presentation, saving, closing, using Help functions
Adjusting Basic Settings - changing display modes, using zoom tool, modifying toolbar display
Document Exchange - saving an existing presentation in another file format, saving in a format appropriate for posting to a Web site
Basic Operations

Creating a Presentation - choosing appropriate automatic slide layout for individual slides, modifying slide layout, adding text, adding an image from an image library, using a master slide
Copying, Moving, Deleting Text
Copying, Moving, Deleting Images
Copying, Moving, Deleting Slides
Formatting

Formatting Text - changing font type, applying italics, bold, underlining, case changes, shadowing, using subscripts and superscripts, applying different colours to text font, centring and aligning text, adjusting line spacing, changing bullet type
Modifying Text Boxes - resizing and moving a text box within a slide, setting line weights, style and colours of a text box
Graphics and Charts

Drawing Objects - adding lines, moving lines, changing line colour, modifying line width, adding various shapes, adding a free drawn line, rotating, flipping, changing shape attributes, applying shadow
Charts - creating an organisational chart, modifying the structure of an organisational chart, creating different types of chart
Images and Other Objects - importing images from other files, resizing and moving an image in a slide, importing other objects, copying an imported object to a master slide, adding border effects to an object
Printing and Distribution

Slide Setup - selecting appropriate output formats, changing slide orientation
Preparing for Distribution - adding notes for the presenter to slides, numbering the slides, using spell-check
Printing - previewing the presentation document in different views, print slides in various views and output formats
Slide Show Effects

Preset Animation - adding and changing preset animation effects
Transitions - adding slide transition effects
Viewing a Slide Show

Delivering a Presentation - starting a slide show on any slide, using onscreen navigation tools, hiding slides