Presentation Classes

PowerPoint Basics

PowerPoint is an easy-to-use presentation program. This workshop includes principles of effective presentations, using slide layouts, customizing templates, and importing graphics and modifying them with the Picture toolbar.

Course Outline

• Principles of effective presentations
• Creating basic presentations
• Importing Microsoft Clip Art
• Modifying master slides
• Effective use of type
• Saving templates
• Creating & modifying charts
• Creating graphics with the draw tools
• Modifying imported object oriented graphics
• Importing & modifying bit mapped graphics
• Sequences & custom animation
• Printing features

PowerPoint Graphics and Sequences

This workshop covers using the drawing tools to create graphics and develop sequences for more effective presentation. The same tools can be used to customize certain types of clip art (object-oriented graphics) and to use PowerPoint as a general purpose graphics program.

Course Outline

• Creating & modifying charts
• Creating graphics with the draw tools
• Modifying imported object oriented graphics
• Importing &modifying bit mapped graphics
• sequences & custom animation
• Custom animation on the master slide & title master
• Additional sequencing tricks

PowerPoint Interactivity

Intended for users familiar with the basics of PowerPoint. This workshop covers the custom animation feature, hyperlinking buttons and Web publishing functions of PowerPoint. Conducted by Nick Dvoracek.

Course Outline

• Review of the drawing functions
• Custom animation of graphics
• Custom animation of charts
• Additional sequencing tricks
• Custom animation on the master slide & title master
• Buttons and hyperlinks
• Save as play-only files
• Export for Web