Business Applications

Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003: Level 2

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Course length: 1.0 day


Certification: Microsoft Office Specialist: PowerPoint® 2003


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 desire to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2003 and 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.


Certification:

This course is one of a series of Element K courseware titles that addresses Microsoft Office Specialist (Office Specialist) skill sets. The Office Specialist program is for individuals who use Microsoft’s business desktop software and who seek recognition for their expertise with specific Microsoft products. Certification candidates must pass one or more proficiency exams in order to earn Office Specialist certification.


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

Lesson 6: Delivering a Presentation

  • Topic 6A: Hyperlink Within PowerPoint
  • Topic 6B: Add an Action Button
  • Topic 6C: Set Up a Custom Show
  • Topic 6D: Annotate a Presentation

Topic 6E: Working with Narrations and Slide Timings

  • Topic 6F: Set Up a Slide Show to Repeat Automatically