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Computer Applications > Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
 Easy to learn and fun to use, PowerPoint 2003 sets the standard by which all other presentation programs are measured.
In this highly interactive hands-on class, you'll learn how to create dazzling multimedia presentations for just about any audience. You'll be able to create and display slides filled with formatted text, video, audio, animation, special effects, charts, outlines, video clips, images, and links to the Web.
You'll learn how to work with task panes and the clip organizer, and how to access the Design Gallery Live and Template Gallery Web sites to download clip art and templates for your presentations. You'll even be able to save your presentations in HTML so they can be shared with others over the Web.
You'll also learn how to use some of the exciting new features exclusive to PowerPoint 2003, including the new PowerPoint Viewer, the Package-for-CD feature, and the Reference task pane.
Your instructor will share with you her many years of teaching experience, providing you with valuable tips and keyboard shortcuts to use with PowerPoint 2003. She'll also take you on many field trips to useful Web sites that will help broaden your knowledge of PowerPoint.
This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Kathy Van Pelt.
 Kathy Van Pelt has been involved in education for many years, teaching and assisting students with microcomputer application courses. Kathy specializes in Microsoft Office applications, the Windows operating system, and keyboarding. For the past 20 years, she has taught computer courses at a community college, teaching both in the classroom and online. Before that, she spent nine years teaching word processing and business classes at a private business college. She loves being in the ever-evolving educational field, and she's especially excited about the flexibility that online learning offers students.
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Requirements:
Microsoft Windows XP or 2000, Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 or Microsoft Office 2003 (Student and Teacher Edition, Standard Edition, Small Business Edition, or Professional Edition are all acceptable - please be sure to install this software on your computer before the course begins), Internet access, e-mail, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser. This course is not suitable for Macintosh users, nor for users of any of the 2007 versions of Microsoft PowerPoint.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 users will be supported in the discussion area.
Syllabus:
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.
| Week One |
| Wednesday - Lesson 01 |
Come explore the basic features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2003, including how to plan a presentation and start the PowerPoint program. PowerPoint's Auto-Content Wizard makes it easy to create a professional looking presentation in a very short time. In our first lesson, we'll look at the menus and the many toolbars you have at your disposal with PowerPoint 2003. We'll also look at other basics, including working with different views, task panes, and tabs.
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| Friday - Lesson 02 |
Now that you know the basics of PowerPoint, you can create a presentation from scratch. We'll start by choosing a colored design template from the Slide Design task pane and choose a layout for your first few slides with the Slide Layout task pane. We'll discuss the two things you need to do to save a file so you know where to find it later. Then we'll go over the different ways to put on a slide show. We'll be covering a lot of important stuff in this lesson!
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| Week Two |
| Wednesday - Lesson 03 |
You'll find that there's usually more than one way to perform a task. In this lesson, I'll show you multiple ways to open a presentation. Then, I'll teach you how to open a file and save it with a different name. Chances are you'll need to edit the text on your slides; so I'll teach you how to use the Outline tab to work with just the text on your slides. As the class progresses, you'll add new slides to your presentation and learn to work with different slide layouts. You'll also learn how to create and edit table slides and work with the Tables and Borders toolbar in this lesson.
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| Friday - Lesson 04 |
No program is complete without a Spell Checker. PowerPoint not only has a Spell Checker, but a Style Checker as well. The Style Checker helps maintain consistency throughout your presentation as it can check for the consistent use of punctuation and capital letters, among other things. Microsoft added the ability to do online research within PowerPoint 2003 with the Research task pane. I'm sure you'll be surprised to see how the Print dialog box in PowerPoint is different from other programs. You'll also learn all about the options in the Print dialog box in this lesson, including how to print slides, handouts, an outline, and notes.
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| Week Three |
| Wednesday - Lesson 05 |
We're going to switch gears in this lesson and work with images instead of text. I'll show you how to embellish your slides with media clips, which could be a piece of clip art, a photograph, a movie, or a sound clip. You'll even learn how to download an image from a Web site and insert the image on a slide. We'll spend a lot of time talking about the Clip Art task pane, which is the tool you'll use to organize, search for, and insert media clips on your slides.
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| Friday - Lesson 06 |
Hope you like to draw, because that's what we'll be doing in this lesson! The good news is that you don't have to be an artist to use the WordArt and AutoShape tools on the Drawing toolbar to draw shapes on your slide. With the WordArt feature, you'll transform your text into an object that can be designed with color, texture, patterns, or just about anything you like. With the AutoShapes tool, you can draw all kinds of shapes including lines and connectors, a smiley face, a crescent moon, stars, banners, block arrows, flow chart symbols, callouts, and more! You can format these AutoShape objects with color and texture just like you can format your WordArt objects. After getting a few objects on a slide, I'll show you how you can group them into one object.
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| Week Four |
| Wednesday - Lesson 07 |
In this lesson, you'll learn how to create and edit chart slides to illustrate statistical data. You'll find this lesson easy if you like working with math and numbers. If you're one of the many who don't like math, that's okay because I'll walk you through everything you need to do and know to create a chart slide. If you have used a spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel, creating chart slides in PowerPoint will be a breeze. And while you're working with numbers and math, you can still be creative with your charts by changing the options such as font color and size, bar color, chart type, and so on.
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| Friday - Lesson 08 |
The topic of today's lesson is animation. You'll learn about Slide Transitions and Animation Schemes. A slide transition is an animation effect that plays during a slide show when a new slide appears. For example, a slide might fly in from the top or perhaps it pushes up from the bottom. After learning about slide transitions, you'll learn about animation schemes, which allow you to apply animation to the text and some objects on your presentation slides. You'll learn that some animations schemes contain more animation features than other schemes, and some even include a slide transition. I think you'll find the Animation Schemes feature fun and easy to use.
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| Week Five |
| Wednesday - Lesson 09 |
Another animation feature, Custom Animation, is on our agenda for today. While slide transitions allow you to apply animation to your slides as they transition, and animation schemes allow you to apply animation to text on your slides, custom animation allows you to apply animation to text and objects on individual slides. The Custom Animation task pane allows you to customize the animation on any slide. I'll show you how to use the Custom Animation task pane to add and reorder animated text and objects on a slide and how to add sound effects and music to your presentation.
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| Friday - Lesson 10 |
In this lesson, you'll broaden your PowerPoint knowledge with two features. One is the ability to save your presentation as a Web page and view it online with a browser such as Internet Explorer. This feature seems to get better with every version of PowerPoint. The other feature we'll explore is the Package for CD command on PowerPoint's File menu. This is a new feature in PowerPoint 2003 and I think you'll really appreciate it. It allows you to save PowerPoint presentations on a CD if you use the Windows XP operating system and your computer has a CD burner. If you have a CD burner, but you're using Windows 2000, you can use the Package for CD feature to package your presentation and any supporting files to a folder.
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| Week Six |
| Wednesday - Lesson 11 |
Today we'll take a look at ways to change a presentation's look with masters, color schemes, and backgrounds. Masters are used to make global changes to your slides, handouts, and notes. For example, if you want to increase or decrease the font size of the text on all the slides in a presentation, make the change on the slide master. Another global change you can make to a presentation is to modify the background color with a color scheme, or with the Background option on the Format menu. You'll get a chance to work with both of these options today.
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| Friday - Lesson 12 |
In this last lesson, we'll work with hyperlinks, including Action buttons. PowerPoint's hyperlink feature allows you to create links in a presentation that jump to a variety of locations. You really do have a lot of choices as you can create links from text or objects to other slides, other presentations, other documents, and to Web pages. PowerPoint has its own version of hyperlinks called Action buttons. Action buttons serve as hyperlinks to slides, other presentations, other documents, or Web sites. You draw an action button on a slide with your mouse then instruct PowerPoint where to link to. You can add interest to your action buttons by changing their color and making them three-dimensional. In addition, you can associate a sound or other action that initiates when you click an action button.
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Student Reviews:
"I already had a basic knowledge of PowerPoint 2003 but taking this course really helped me to realize the potential things I can do. I use PowerPoint every week in my job so this will help me to do a much better job with presentations. I have been able to help other staff that I work with understand the program better."
"I had no idea what to expect with an online course and was surprised that it was so much fun. I found that I was eager to download each lesson and get started. Kathy Van Pelt made learning a breeze as she guided us through each step with clear instructions and helpful illustrations. Another plus was not having to drive through heavy traffic and then search for a parking space. I have already signed up for another online course look forward to more adventures in learning!"
"PowerPoint is a powerful but complex presentation program. Going through this course made it less intimidating and allowed me to learn its many features in a systematic way. I now feel confident that I can use PowerPoint to create effective presentations for the computer, CD or Web."
"The course gave me an excellent view of what PP can do and an resource to refer to in the future while I am using the program."
"The lessons were well thought out and were very easy to follow. I really enjoyed the course. The instructor was very helpful and seemed to respond very quickly to posted questions. I would absolutely take another online course and from this instructor. Thank you!"
"The online experience was far better than a classroom experience because I could enter at any time and go back to other lessons as needed. It was well presented with no unnecessary input to distract. The instructor is the best. I would recommend this course (and instructor) to anyone wanting to learn PowerPoint."
"This course was great. I have already put my new skills to use by creating three presentations for my boss. He is thrilled to now have presentations of great quality. Thanks!"
"This has been a great class. I considered myself a PowerPoint power-user before, but I learned so many shortcuts. The instructor also pointed out so many options that I didn't even know existed. Thanks for offering this class."
"This is an excellent course, and the instructor is outstanding. I tried to learn PowerPoint with a book and just couldn't get through the jargon. This course will get you where you want to go. If you do the reading, create the presentation, and do the assignments, you will be ready to make your own presentations and then some. I intend eventually to take all the courses this instructor has to offer online for MS Office. I think she's great for this type of class."
"This was an excellent introduction class to Power Point. I found the instructions clear and easy to follow. I really enjoyed how each lesson built on the previous lesson. I couldn't wait to see what new techniques would be introduced to enhance the previous lesson. After this class I am no longer intimidated by the Power Point program. I just may have to take the next class in the series. Thanks to Kathy Van Pelt - you did a great job with this class!"
"Very good course. Instructor was excellent. Before this course, I knew Zero about PowerPoint. Now, I feel confident that I can put together a very good presentation for work."
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