PowerPoint 97 - Day 2

Required Background

Users who have successfully completed our PowerPoint 97 Day 1 class and Windows 95 Day 1 class or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Length: 1/2 day

Course Lessons

Customizing Presentations

Customizing presentations, a color scheme, and the slide background; applying and using color schemes; applying a color scheme to all slides; saving and deleting a custom template

Editing Presentation Masters

Working with the slide, title, notes, and handout masters; formatting the slide, title, notes, and handout masters; adding placeholder information to the slide, notes, and handout masters; printing handouts

Adding Special Effects

Using special effects; selecting animation and slide transition effects; setting custom animation and slide transitions; rehearsing slide transition timings; setting up a slide show; hiding a slide

Expanding a Slide Show

Creating a custom show, a hyperlink, and a summary slide; using a hyperlink, an action button, and the Slide Finder; jumping to another presentation; expanding a slide

Presenting to a Wider Audience

Using Meeting Minder, the Pack and Go Wizard, the PowerPoint Viewer, and presentation conferencing; saving a presentation as HTML

Using Data From Other Sources

Importing text from Word; exporting an outline to Word; inserting picture files, sound clips, and video clips; using scanned pictures

Drawing Objects

Using Office Art; displaying the drawing rulers and the drawing guides; drawing AutoShapes, lines, rectangles, circles, and freeform objects; selecting objects; changing the fill color, line style, and line color; creating, sizing, and repositioning a text box; editing a freeform object

Editing Objects

Editing drawn objects; inserting text into an object; stacking, grouping, ungrouping, scaling, flipping, rotating, aligning, and animating objects; changing the stacking order; adding a 3-D effect; previewing object animation; adding an effect using WordArt; editing WordArt text

Editing and Importing Charts

Editing charts, formatting data markers and the 3-D view, repositioning the legend, dragging to adjust a 3-D chart, exploding a pie chart, selecting chart options, importing a chart from Excel

Creating Custom Charts

Displaying chart axes, tick marks, and gridlines; formatting axis numbers, gridlines, and the scale of an axis; rotating axis text; adding a chart title, a drawing object, and text to a chart; changing the data series; animating a chart; inserting a data table

Creating Organization Charts

Using and creating organization charts; adding a manager, subordinates, and position boxes; selecting, rearranging, and formatting boxes; changing a box style and the background color; editing text in a box; formatting and drawing connecting lines; magnifying a chart; displaying the drawing tools

 

Using Tables

Inserting and activating a Word table, entering text in a table, displaying the Tables toolbar, using Table AutoFormat and the table ruler, selecting and inserting rows and columns

Exporting Presentation Slides

Exporting slides, exporting to 35mm slides and color overheads, creating color slide copies

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