PowerPoint 2000 User Specialist

Intended Audience

This one-day course is intended for students who wish to prepare for the Microsoft Office User Specialist exam for PowerPoint 2000.

Purpose

The purpose of this course is to teach introductory to intermediate features of PowerPoint 2000 to allow participants to create different types of presentations. By the end of this course, the student should be able to create, save and edit a presentation, insert tables and other objects into a presentation, and apply different effects to a presentation.
This course is intended to be completed in sequential order.

Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with the use of personal computers, understand basic file concepts (such as the use of files and folders for storing information) and be comfortable working in the Windows 95/98/2000 or Windows NT 4.0 environment. It is recommended that users unfamiliar with Windows take an Introduction to Windows course before taking this course.
Knowledge of previous versions of PowerPoint is not assumed.

Course Content

PowerPoint Basics

What is PowerPoint?
Starting PowerPoint
The PowerPoint Window
Menu Bars and Toolbars
Viewing and Controlling a Slide Show Presentation
Creating a Presentation
Entering Title and Body Text

File Management

Saving a Presentation
Closing a Presentation
Opening a Presentation
Publish a Presentation on the Web

Editing a Presentation

Placing and Moving the Cursor
Selecting and Editing Text
Reordering and Deleting Points and Slides

Formatting Presentation Content

Formatting Text
Formatting Paragraphs
Copying Formatting

Masters and Design Templates

Applying Templates
Modifying Title and Slide Masters
Reapplying the Master

Working with Visual Elements

Using Pictures
Creating and Modifying Drawing Objects
Creating Logos with WordArt
Creating and Formatting Tables

Slide Show Design

Slide Transitions
Adding Animation Builds
Setting Timings for Slides
Creating Multiple Slide Shows
Creating Hyperlinks with Action Buttons

Preparing Presentation Output

Setting Print Options

Office 2000 Tools

Finding and Replacing Text
Spell Checker
AutoCorrect
The Office Assistant
The Office Clipboard
Sending a Presentation Via Email