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MODULE 1 - INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT

SYNOPSIS:
This course introduces the skills necessary for developing presentations. It includes tasks to create, enhance, and print presentation slides; use the Office Assistant and Outline view; and correct spelling errors. The student will also learn how to create basic charts.

PREREQUISITES:
Users familiar with Windows 2000/XP who want to learn the basics of PowerPoint 2003.

OBJECTIVES:

l Exploring PowerPoint
l Using the Office Assistant
l Using Basic Presentation Skills
l Enhancing Presentation Text
l Using Outline View
l Correcting Spelling Errors
l Creating Basic Charts
l Printing Presentations

DURATION:
Half Day

THIS MODULE INCLUDES:

Exploring PowerPoint
Starting and exiting PowerPoint; creating a presentation; selecting an AutoLayout; using windows and menu commands; displaying/hiding toolbars.

Using the Office Assistant
Using the Office Assistant, selecting and hiding the Assistant, changing Assistant options, finding an answer.

Using Basic Presentation Skills
Creating, saving, closing, and opening a presentation; entering text; adding and navigating slides; using the AutoContent Wizard; switching views; renaming an existing file; using design and content templates.

Enhancing Presentation Text
Changing the font, font size, font style and effect, and text alignment; adding/removing bullets; modifying paragraph spacing.

Using Outline View
Using, navigating, and adding slides; collapsing/expanding an outline; demoting, promoting, and moving text lines; deleting and rearranging slides; creating a summary slide.

Correcting Spelling Errors
Checking spelling as you type; hiding spelling errors; starting the Spelling Checker; using Ignore/Ignore All, Change/Change All, and Replace/Replace All; selecting AutoCorrect options; using AutoCorrect; creating and deleting an AutoCorrect entry.

Creating Basic Charts
Using charts in slides, creating a chart, deleting and entering data in a datasheet, closing the datasheet, changing the chart type.

Printing Presentations
Printing a presentation, slides, outlines, and selected slides; selecting page setup options.

 

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