Microsoft Office User Specialist: Power Point 2000

PowerPoint 2000 foundation

• What is PowerPoint 2000?
• Starting PowerPoint
• The opening PowerPoint screen
• PowerPoint and Microsoft office
• Slides and presentations
• Opening an existing presentation
• Saving a presentation
• Closing a presentation and exiting PowerPoint

• The standard toolbar
• The formatting toolbar
• Status bar
• The view icons
• Normal view
• Outline view
• Slide view
• Slide show view

• Choosing an autolayout
• The title slide
• Bulleted list
• Two column text
• Table
• Text and chart
• Organization chart
• Chart (i.e. Graphs)
• Text and clipart
• Blank (slide)

• Starting the autocontent wizard
• Selecting a presentation type within the autocontent wizard
• Presentation type
• Presentation titles, footers and slide numbers
• Completing the wizard
• The finished presentation
• The presentation content

• Creating a new blank presentation
• Selecting a slide layout
• Simple text slide
• To insert a new slide
• Deleting and re-ordering slides within a presentation
• Manipulating slide information within normal and outline view
• Creating notes for your slides

• Formatting options
• Select then do!
• Text formatting

• The drawing toolbar
• Using the drawing tools
• Autoshapes
• Using clipart
• Selecting objects
• Grouping and un-grouping objects
• Re-sizing objects
• Aligning objects
• Moving objects
• Rotating objects
• Cutting, copying, pasting and duplicating
• Moving objects forwards or backwards
• Applying and creating color schemes
• Adding a custom background
• The format painter

• How do you want to print your presentation?
• The print dialog box

• What is a slide show?
• Navigating through a slide show
• Slide show transitions
• Slide show timings
• Slide show annotations
• Hidden slides
• Animation effects
• Meeting minder
• Slide show shortcuts

• Basic file manipulation
• Properties
• Finding files
• Defining your default folder location
• Pack and go

• Text and PowerPoint
• Adding text in slide view
• Adding a new slide to a presentation
• Outline view and text
• Adding text in shapes
• Finding and replacing text
• Selection techniques

• Formatting within PowerPoint
• Replacing fonts
• Formatting fonts
• Additional text formatting effects
• Bullets
• Case formatting
• Using the format painter
• Remember the undo command!
• Paragraph alignment
• Line and paragraph space formatting
• Tab formatting
• Checking spelling

• What are templates and slide masters?
• Create a new template file on which to base new presentations
• Adding a footer, date and numbering information
• Manipulating slide masters within a presentation

• What is the Microsoft clip gallery?
• Using the Microsoft clip gallery
• Modifying the Microsoft clip gallery

• Creating slides that contain tables
• Tables and text manipulation
• Selection techniques within tables
• Manipulating cells, rows and columns within tables

• Creating a chart
• Chart types
• Chart titles
• Chart axes
• Chart gridlines
• Chart legend
• Chart data labels
• Chart data table
• Formatting the data series

• Creating an organization chart
• Adding or removing chart boxes
• Moving chart boxes
• Formatting organization chart boxes

• PowerPoint and OLE
• Pasting objects from other applications
• Editing an embedded object
• Linking objects from other applications
• The links command

• Printing under PowerPoint
• Setting up slides for printing
• Printing a presentation

• Customizing view options
• Customizing general options
• Customizing edit options
• Customizing print options
• Customizing save options
• Customizing spelling options
• Customizing your toolbars
• Autocorrect