Course Outline
PowerPoint - Basics
Versions 97/2000/2002(XP)/2003/2007/2010

Phone:717-560-3552
E-Mail: Registrar@pceasy.com

Program Objectives: Students will learn the basic skills to begin creating effective presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint.

• Introduction to PowerPoint
• Starting PowerPoint
• PowerPoint Screen
• Screen Components
• Menu Bar
• Pull-Down Menu Conventions
• PowerPoint Toolbars
• Fixing the Menu Bar and the Toolbars
• PowerPoint Task Pane
• Creating a Slide
• Tips for Saving Documents
• Saving a Document
• Printing the File
• Opening a File
• Saving a File With a New Name
• Save Vs. Save As
• Status and Scroll Bars
• Views
  • Normal
  • Slide
  • Outline
• Correcting Errors
• Selecting Text to Change
• Moving Around PowerPoint Slides
• Undo Feature
• Creating a New File
• Slide Layout Task Pane
• Auto Content Wizard
• Switching to Other Opened Documents
• Closing a File
• Adding a Template to the Slides
• Help Feature
• Moving Text Boxes on the Slide
• Enhancing/Changing Text Appearance

 

 

• Formatting the Document
  • Bold
  • Underline
  • Italicize
  • Shadow
• Changing Fonts and Point Sizes
• Formatting the Document - Colors
• Font Dialog Box
• Changing Text Alignment
• Creating Additional Slides
• Copying Text
• Format Painter
• Creating a Bulleted Chart
• Changing Bullets
• Positioning Text Next to a Bullet
• Placing Text Within a Box
• Setting Line Spacing
• "Piggyback" Clipboard
• Moving Text
• Using Spell Checker
• Graphics
  • Resizing/Moving/Rotating
  • The Picture Toolbar
  • Deleting a Graphic
• Creating Charts
• Creating Organizational Chart
• Changing a Template
• Using the Slide Sorter
• Slide Show
  • Running Manually/Automatically
  • Additional Slide Show Options
  • Running the Slide Show
• Saving True Type fonts
• Exiting PowerPoint