PrecisionBS - Training

Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003: Level 2

Course Specifications

Software: Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003
Course length: 3 - 4 hours, depending on class size

Course Description

As a Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 user familiar with the basics, you're able to convey information clearly without much glitz. That's okay, but you can do better—audiences expect more than the basics. In this course, you will enhance presentations with features that will transform basic presentations into those with a powerful means of communication.

Course Objective: You will use Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 features that draw, animate, and format presentations with professional-quality content such that they may be communicated to a wide variety of live, remote, and self-service audiences.

Target Student: This course is designed for students who desire to gain the skills necessary to work with design templates, organizational charts, special effects, Web presentations, collaboration functionality, and advanced presentation delivery, or students who already have knowledge of the basics of Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2003, including slide formatting, working with tables, images, and objects, charting data, and presentation preparation.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend that you have taken the Element K courses or possess equivalent knowledge.

Windows XP: Introduction

Windows 2000: Introduction

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003: Level 1

Web browsing experience is also strongly recommended.

Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

create a design template.
create organization charts and diagrams.
add special effects to a Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 slide.
create a Web-based Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 presentation.
use a Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 presentation for collaborative workgroup review.
use functionality that will enable you to deliver live, self-service, and online presentations.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating a Custom Design Template: Topic 1A: Define Design Template Characteristics; Topic 1B: Create a Custom Color Scheme; Topic 1C: Set Up a Slide Master; Topic 1D: Format Custom Bullets; Topic 1E: Add a Footer; Topic 1F: Modify the Notes Master; Topic 1G: Save a Custom Design Template
Lesson 2: Adding Organization Charts and Diagrams: Topic 2A: Working with Organization Charts; Topic 2B: Update an Organization Chart; Topic 2C: Applying a Chart Layout; Topic 2D: Create a Diagram; Topic 2E: Draw a Flowchart
Lesson 3: Adding Special Effects: Topic 3A: Add Sound and Movies; Topic 3B: Add Animation; Topic 3C: Emphasize Objects; Topic 3D: Set a Motion Path; Topic 3E: Set the Order of Effects
Lesson 4: Creating Web Presentations: Topic 4A: Create a Group Home Page with the AutoContent Wizard; Topic 4B: Hyperlink to a Web Page; Topic 4C: Publish as a Web Page
Lesson 5: Collaborating in PowerPoint: Topic 5A: Set Password Protection; Topic 5B: Work with Comments; Topic 5C: Send a Presentation for Review; Topic 5D: Merge Revision Copies; Topic 5E: Apply Reviewer Changes