ABOUT THIS COURSE

In the past, you may have used paper-based overhead systems to give presentations. Now, you want to upgrade those presentations to an electronic format. You can use Microsoft® Office PowerPoint®2003 to give electronic presentations.

Delivering paper-based presentations can be clumsy and unprofessional. Using PowerPoint not only adds polish and professionalism, but also makes updating your presentation quick and efficient.

Course Description

Target Student

This course is designed for students who are interested in learning the fundamentals needed to create and modify basic Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2003 presentations.

Course Prerequisites

To ensure your success, I recommend you have basic knowledge of the following Operating Systems:

·         Macintosh O/S or

·         Windows XP

·         Windows XP Professional

·         Windows 2000

How to Use the Lesson Handouts

As a Learning Guide

Each lesson covers one broad topic or set of related topics. Lessons are arranged in order of increasing proficiency with Microsoft® PowerPoint®2003; skills you acquire in one lesson are used and developed in subsequent lessons. For this reason, you should work through the lessons in sequence.

I organized each lesson into results-oriented topics. Topics include all the relevant and supporting information you need to master Microsoft® PowerPoint®2003, and activities allow you to apply this information to practical hands-on examples.

You get to try out each new skill on a specially prepared sample file. This saves you typing time and allows you to concentrate on the skill at hand. Through the use of sample files, hands-on activities, illustrations that give you feedback at crucial steps, and supporting background information; Lesson Handouts provide you with the foundation and structure to learn Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2003 quickly and easily.

As a Review Tool

Any method of instruction is only as effective as the time and effort you are willing to invest in it. In addition, some of the information that you learn in class may not be important to you immediately, but it may become important later on. For this reason, we encourage you to spend some time reviewing the topics and activities after the course. For additional challenge when reviewing activities, try the “What You Do” column before looking at the “How You Do It” column.

As a Reference

The organization and layout of the Lesson Handouts make it easy to use as a learning tool and as an after class reference. You can use the handouts as a first source for definitions of terms, background information on given topics, and summaries of procedures.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will create effective basic Microsoft® Office PowerPoint®2003 presentations for delivery in front of an audience.

You will:

·         Manipulate an existing PowerPoint presentation.

·         Begin creating a presentation.

·         Format text slides.

·         Add tables to a presentation.

·         Chart data in a presentation.

·         Modify objects on slides.

·         Add images to a presentation.

·         Prepare to deliver a presentation.