PowerPoint 2003

The PowerPoint 2003 series is designed for beginning and intermediate PowerPoint users. This series teaches learners about creating and editing presentations and individual slides, outlining presentations, and printing presentations. The series also details topics such as formatting presentations and slides and using masters, color schemes, and templates. Learners will find out how to incorporate pictures, clip art, sound, video, and animation into a presentation. Finally, the series covers how learners can use PowerPoint with the Internet and when collaborating with others.

Syllabus

INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT

Provides an overview of the use of PowerPoint 2003 and shows how to get started using the program.

• Introducing presentations
• Navigating the interface
• Creating a new presentation
• Using the AutoContent Wizard
• Editing text
• Manipulating slides
• Displaying, printing and saving a presentation
• Working with objects
• Working with text
• Working with slides
• Using the Outline toolbar
• Working with the outline
• Checking spelling and the thesaurus
• Using the Style Checker and the AutoCorrect options
• Using Smart Tags

COMPLETING THE PRESENTATION

Provides learners with the necessary tools to set up and present a PowerPoint presentation.

• Understanding notes
• Using notes pages
• Printing a presentation
• Setting up a slide show
• Controlling a slide show
• Creating custom shows
• Packaging a presentation on a CD
• Using Office Assistant

MAXIMIZING PRESENTATION EFFECTIVENESS

Provides learners with the necessary tools to set up and present a PowerPoint presentation.

• Understanding notes
• Using notes pages
• Printing a presentation
• Setting up a slide show
• Controlling a slide show
• Creating custom shows
• Packaging a presentation on a CD
• Using Office Assistant

COLORS, MASTERS AND TEMPLATES

Shows learners how to change color schemes and backgrounds for a presentation, and how to use Master slides, headers, footers, and templates.

• Using color schemes
• Creating the slide background
• Coloring text and objects
• Working with Masters
• Adjusting the Handout and Notes Masters
• Using Masters
• Using Headers and Footers
• Creating and applying new Masters
• Using templates

DRAWINGS, CHARTS, SOUND AND VIDEO

Shows learners how to use PowerPoint 2003 to draw and modify lines, shapes and objects on a slide, insert charts, graphs and diagrams, and add sound and video to presentations.

• Working with the Drawing toolbar
• Drawing simple objects
• Using AutoShapes
• Creating free-form shapes, shadows and styles
• Drawing complicated pictures
• Creating a chart
• Creating and inserting diagrams
• Working with organization charts
• Working with other diagrams
• Using tables
• Adding sound to a presentation
• Working with video

ANIMATION, WEB PAGES AND COLLABORATION

Teaches learners how to add animation to a presentation, how to add hyperlinks, and how to share presentations with others.

• Creating slide transitions
• Using animation schemes
• Creating custom animations
• Timing animations
• Using hyperlinks
• Adding action buttons
• Saving a presentation on a Web server
• Working with FTP sites
• Creating Web pages
• Using online collaborations
• Maximizing presentation impact

Qualifications

Qualification: Printable Transcript

On completion of this course you may print a transcript off as evidence of your progression throughout the course.

Requirements for Entry

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

Study Options

If you do not have Internet access, or would prefer to study this course via the traditional paper/postal based study method, you can find more information on the course by clicking on the link below.

Study Hours

This is only an approximate figure and is dependant upon how much time you can dedicate to your studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. Furthermore, at the end of each lesson there is a question paper that needs to be completed and returned to your tutor. You should allow at least 1 - 2 hours of study to complete each question paper.

The approximate amount of time required to complete the course is: 40 hrs.