Microsoft PowerPoint 2003

£29 (plus vat)

The PowerPoint 2003 course is divided into 10 chapters containing a total of 109 interactive learning lessons which takes you through the skills and knowledge you need to make effective use of Microsoft PowerPoint 2003.

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The content covered:

Chapter One: The Fundamentals  

Starting PowerPoint 

What’s New in PowerPoint 2003? 

Understanding the PowerPoint Program Screen 

Using Menus 

Using Toolbars and Creating a New Presentation 

Filling Out Dialog Boxes 

Keystroke and Right Mouse Button Shortcuts 

Opening a Presentation 

Saving and Closing a Presentation and Exiting PowerPoint 

Creating a New Presentation with the AutoContent Wizard 

Creating a Blank Presentation and Creating a Presentation from a Template 

Moving Around in Your Presentations 

Viewing Your Presentation 

Printing Your Presentation 

Getting Help 

Changing the Office Assistant and Using the Help Button 

Chapter One Review 

Chapter Two: Editing a Presentation 

Inserting Slides and Text 

Using the Outline Pane 

Editing Text 

Selecting, Replacing, and Deleting Text 

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text 

Using Undo, Redo, and Repeat 

Checking Your Spelling 

Finding and Replacing Information 

Viewing a Presentation’s Outline 

Rearranging a Presentation’s Outline 

Inserting Symbols and Special Characters 

Working in Slide Sorter View 

Adding Notes to Your Slides 

Working with Multiple Windows 

Collecting and Pasting Multiple Items 

File Management 

Understanding Smart Tags 

Recovering Your Presentations 

Chapter Two Review 

Chapter Three: Formatting Your Presentation 

Formatting Fonts with the Formatting Toolbar 

Advanced Font Formatting with Font Dialog Box 

Using the Format Painter 

Applying a Template’s Formatting 

Using the Slide Master 

Choosing a Color Scheme 

Changing the Background of Your Slides 

Working with Bulleted and Numbered Lists 

Changing Paragraph Alignment and Line Spacing 

Adding Headers and Footers 

Working with Tabs and Indents 

Changing the Page Setup 

Chapter Three Review 

Chapter Four: Drawing and Working with Graphics 

Drawing on Your Slides 

Adding, Arranging, and Formatting Text Boxes 

Selecting, Resizing, Moving, and Deleting Objects 

Formatting Objects 

Inserting Clip Art 

Inserting and Formatting Pictures 

Aligning and Grouping Objects 

Drawing AutoShapes 

Flipping and Rotating Objects 

Layering Objects 

Applying Shadows and 3-D Effects 

Chapter Four Review 

Chapter Five: Working with Tables and WordArt 

Creating a Table 

Working with a Table 

Adjusting Column Width and Row Height 

Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns 

Adding Borders to a Table 

Adding Shading and Fills 

Inserting a WordArt Object 

Formatting a WordArt Object 

Chapter Five Review 

Chapter Six: Working with Graphs and Organization Charts 

Creating a Chart 

Modifying a Chart 

Selecting a Chart Type 

Creating an Organization Chart 

Modifying your Organization Chart 

Formatting Your Organization Chart 

Chapter Six Review 

Chapter Seven: Delivering Your Presentation 

Delivering a Presentation on a Computer 

Using Slide Transitions 

Using an Animation Scheme 

Using Custom Animations 

Rehearsing Slide Show Timings 

Creating a Presentation that Runs by Itself 

Creating a Custom Show 

Packaging and Copying a Presentation to CD 

Viewing a Packaged Presentation 

Chapter Seven Review 

Chapter Eight: Working with Multimedia 

Inserting Sounds 

Adding Voice Narration to Your Slides 

Inserting a Movie Clip 

Automating the Multimedia in Your Presentation 

Chapter Eight Review 

Chapter Nine: Working with Other Programs and the Internet 

Inserting a Slide into a Microsoft Word Document 

Embedding a Microsoft Excel Worksheet into a Slide 

Modifying an Embedded Object 

Inserting a Linked Excel Chart 

Importing and Exporting an Outline 

Using Hyperlinks 

Using Action Buttons 

Saving a Presentation as a Web Page 

Viewing a Web-Based Presentation 

Chapter Nine Review 

Chapter Ten: Advanced Topics 

Hiding, Displaying, and Moving Toolbars 

Customizing PowerPoint’s Toolbars 

Sending Faxes 

Adding Comments to a Slide 

Customizing PowerPoint’s Default Options 

File Properties and Finding a File 

Recording a Macro 

Playing and Editing a Macro 

Chapter Ten Review 

Index