PowerPoint is presentation software that enables visual organization and communication of concepts. You can customize your presentations with sound, animation, charts, graphics, narration, and video. PowerPoint can facilitate delivery of your presentation online and over a network in real time. You can also save your presentation as a Web page so you can view it in a browser offline, email it, or burn to a CD/DVD. As a teacher, you can use PowerPoint to develop your lessons in an organized and focused manner. You can broadcast your lessons on the Internet for your students with different learning styles and learning needs.

In this session, you will learn to create a simple presentation using one of the templates included with PowerPoint. You will learn to incorporate graphics and other media/data on slides in your presentation. We will learn to...

Beginning:

• Create a new presentation
• Create and edit slides
• Create and view slides in different formats
• Print a presentation, including slides and handouts
• Save a presentation as a new or existing presentation or in a different file format
• save a presentation as a "read only" powerpoint show.
• Close the file and quit the program

Advanced:

• Principals of Effective Powerpoint Presentation Design
• Managing presentations
  • Inserting slides from other presentations
  • Hiding a slide
  • Showing a hidden slide during a presentation
  • Handouts and Speaker Notes
• Charts
  • Overview of chart types
  • Creating a new chart
  • Editing the datasheet
  • Importing Excel data
  • Formatting charts
  • Adding titles and labels
• Tables
  • Inserting a new table
  • Drawing a new table
  • Adding rows and columns
  • Formatting a table
  • Selecting table elements
  • Merging and splitting cells
  • Rotating text in tables
• Templates and Color Schemes
  • Saving a presentation as a template
  • Modifying color schemes
  • Deleting color schemes
  • Importing color schemes
• Animation
  • Overview of animation
  • Preset vs custom animation
  • Animating text
  • Setting animation timings
  • Previewing animations
• Multimedia
  • Inserting video clips
  • Setting video options
  • Resizing video clips
  • Adding sound to a presentation
  • Recording sound onto a slide
  • Playing a CD during a presentation
• Timings and transitions
  • Applying transitions to slides
  • Varying transitions between slides
  • Setting timings manually
  • Setting timings by rehearsing
  • Activating and de-activating timings during a slide show
• Customized presentations
  • Adding hyperlinks to the Internet or other documents
  • PPT to Web

Throughout this session, you can get help from the Help menu while using PowerPoint. To open the online Help, select Microsoft PowerPoint Help from the Help menu. If you have an Internet connection, you can also point to Office on the Web on the Help menu and choose from several resources that may be of interest to you such as Product News, Frequently Asked Questions, and Online Support. You can also go to http://www.microsoft.com/powerpoint for all of the latest information.

Link to PowerPoint Resources Page

Handout for Advanced Session