PowerPoint 97

Course Length/Prerequisites

This one-day course requires Windows Introduction or the equivalent.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for personnel who wish to learn the basic steps required to create a presentation in PowerPoint .

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this hands-on workshop, students will be able to:
create, edit, and save a PowerPoint presentation
add pictures and graphs to a presentation
create drawing objects using PowerPoint’s Drawing toolbar
create an organizational chart
work with the master slide
apply templates to a presentation
produce an electronic slide show

Course Content

Power Point Basics

What is PowerPoint?

The PowerPoint Window

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

Editing a Presentation

Placing and Moving the Cursor

Selecting and Editing Text in Slide View

Editing Text in Outline View

Formatting the Content of a Presentation

Formatting Text

Formatting Paragraphs

Copying Formatting

Masters and Templates

Applying Templates

Modifying a Template's Title and Slide Masters

Reapplying the Master

Adding Graphics to Customize a Presentation

Using Pictures

Creating and Modifying Drawing Objects

Working With Charts and Graphs

Organization Charts

Graphs

Electronic Slide Show Design

Slide Transitions

Adding Animation Builds

Setting Timings for Slides

Drawing Tools