PowerPoint 97 Overview

Objective:
Learn the terminology of Microsoft PowerPoint and develop the skills to create and work with basic presentations.

Prerequisite Skills:
Comfortable with the Windows environment.

Course Description:
Do you want to create eye-catching presentations? Do you want to give your audience handouts of your slides? Do you want to learn to navigate in PowerPoint 97?

Attend this course if you want to:

• Create a presentation based on a template.
• Create a brand new presentation.
• Easily move from slide to slide in a presentation.
• Add text and graphics to a slide.
• Open, edit, save, and delete presentations.
• Use on-line Help to answer your PowerPoint questions.

Class Length: 90 minutes

Delivery Options:

• On-site instructor-led (contact us for details)

• Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization) - contact us for details

• Virtual classroom - one on one (register for a 1-on-1 Application Support session)

PowerPoint 97 Formatting Presentations

Objective:
Learn to format presentations using the text, bullets and numbering, and color options, as well as applying predefined templates.

Prerequisite Skills:
Comfortable with basic PowerPoint capabilities.
(Suggested Course: PowerPoint 97 Overview)

Course Description:
Do you want your presentations to really capture your audience's attention? Do you want to design your presentation so that the same text or graphic (e.g., a logo) appears in the same spot on every slide? Do you want to learn which colors work best together?

Attend this course if you want to:

• Use PowerPoint's built-in templates to enhance the appearance of your presentation.
• Format text and bullets on your slides.
• Change the color scheme and backgrounds of your presentation.
• Add clip art to your slides.
• Consistently format slides using the Slide Master.
• Make your title slide stand out using the Title Master.
• Create your own template.
• Use the style checker to look for inconsistencies within your presentation.

Class Length: 90 minutes

Delivery Options:

• On-site instructor-led (contact us for details)

• Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization) - contact us for details

• Virtual classroom - one on one (register for a 1-on-1 Application Support session)

PowerPoint 97 Slide Shows

Objective:
Learn to use the capabilities of PowerPoint for presenting electronic slide shows.

Prerequisite Skills:
Comfortable with PowerPoint and its formatting capabilities.
(Suggested Courses: PowerPoint 97 Overview and PowerPoint 97 Formatting Presentations)

Course Description:
Are you scheduled to give a presentation? Are you comfortable using PowerPoint in front of a group? Do you want to customize your presentation "on the fly"? Do you want to give your audience copies of your presentation?

Attend this course if you want to:

• Run a slide show.
• Navigate between slides.
• Hide slides for a particular audience.
• Rearrange your slides.
• Add a blank slide to the end of the presentation.
• Customize a slide show for a particular audience.
• Add visual effects for moving from one slide to another.
• Add animation effects to your presentation.
• Add action buttons to the slide that can be invoked during the presentation.
• Add links to another slide, slide show, or Web page.
• Set up a presentation to run automatically.
• Create speaker notes and handouts.
• Pack up a presentation to run on another computer.

Class Length: 90 minutes

Delivery Options:

• On-site instructor-led (contact us for details)

• Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization) - contact us for details

• Virtual classroom - one on one (register for a 1-on-1 Application Support session)

PowerPoint 97 Tips & Shortcuts

Objective:
Learn features to enable more efficient use of PowerPoint.

Prerequisite Skills:

• Comfortable with PowerPoint and its formatting capabilities.
  (Suggested Courses: PowerPoint 97 Overview and PowerPoint 97 Formatting Presentations)

• Comfortable setting up and running slide shows in PowerPoint.
  (Suggested Course: PowerPoint 97 Slide Shows)

Course Description:
Are you using the most efficient methods to accomplish tasks in PowerPoint 97? Could you save time with shortcut menus and keyboard shortcuts? Do you need help designing a presentation?

Attend this course if you want to:

• Learn to save time by using shortcut menus.
• Save time with keyboard shortcuts.
• Resize text to fit better on a slide.
• Add time, date, page numbers, or text to slides.
• Alter the background of imported pictures.
• Create animation effects with objects.

Class Length: 90 minutes

Delivery Options:

• On-site instructor-led (contact us for details)

• Virtual classroom - dedicated (up to ten people from the same organization) - contact us for details

• Virtual classroom - one on one (register for a 1-on-1 Application Support session)