PowerPoint 2003 Intro Training

Getting Started with PowerPoint 2003

With a little bit of training, PowerPoint can be an intuitive and easy-to-use presentation design tool. You will start by learning about the PowerPoint environment. Using hands-on exercises, the training covers how to:

• Change menu and toolbar options
• Switch between various viewing panes
• Open, close, save, and manage presentations
• Search the help system

Creating Powerpoint Presentations

When creating new presentations, you have several choices for the layout. You can create a blank presentation or use one of PowerPoint's many pre-built templates, combining it with one of many different appealing font and color schemes that PowerPoint offers. Once you have created a new presentation you can start working with the individual slides. We train you on how to:

• Create blank presentations
• Start from a pre-built "design template" such as a business plan or angenda
• Start from the AutoContent wizard
• Change the placement of headers, bullets, and graphics across your entire presentation

Organizing Slides & Presentations in Powerpoint

As you organize your thoughts for your presentation you may find yourself frequently rearranging slides. PowerPoint offers more than one way of looking at the slides in your presentation and each layout has a different mechanism for letting you rearrange the slides and insert new ones between them.. In this part of the class we train you on how to:

• Use the slide layout task pane to view multiple slides at once
• Create and move slides in the outline tab
• Reorganize slides in the slide sorter
• Use the slide finder to find and incorporate slides from other presentations

Working with Text in the Slide Pane

The "slide pane" is where you will do most of your work. Typically slides are composed of headings, bullets and sub-bullets, so taking full advantage of PowerPoint's text placement and formatting capabilities is an important part of creating a professional-looking presentation. This part of the training covers how to:

• Select, cut, and paste text
• Create bulleted and numbered lists
• Insert and format text boxes that confine text into a specific area
• Indent text and change line spacing for easier readability
• Use AutoCorrect and the style checker to fix typos and other errors

Adding Clip Art in Powerpoint

Clip Art images and illustrations help presenters add visual impact to their slides, helping speakers emphasize a point or message. PowerPoint offers built-in clip art, with a wealth of additional resources available online. We train you on how to:

• Find and insert clip art into their slides
• Manage and add clips to the clip organizer
• Move, resize, and modify or recolor clip art to suit a presentation's style
• Create and modify a photo albums

Viewing & Printing PowerPoint Presentations

After you finish writing your document, you can view it, page-by-page, as a presentation on a computer screen, and hand out a printed copy to your audience. It's important to master the slide show feature of PowerPoint as it is the culmination of your work, and small bells and whistles here can play a largepart in determining how your presentation is received. Our training shows you how to:

• Use the Slide Show view to set up and play a presentation
• Create speaker notes to assist with narration
• Use page setup and print preview to arrange slides on a printed page, and print your presentation on paper.
• Format handouts in Word to make it easier for audience members to follow along and takes notes

Prerequisites:

• Good understanding of MS Windows file management, and the concepts of right-clicking and selecting the properties of an object

Powerpoint 2003 training is offered at four locations::

• Powerpoint 2003 training San Francisco
  
• Powerpoint 2003 training Los Angeles
  
• Powerpoint 2003 training San Jose
• Powerpoint 2003 training Sacramento