Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003: Level 2

Overview

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 Objectives

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.

Prerequisites

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take one of the following have equivalent knowledge:

Windows XP: Introduction
Windows 2000: Introduction
Microsoft PowerPoint 2003: Level 1

Web browsing experience is also strongly recommended.

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. 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.

Certification

This course is one of a series of 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

Delivery Method

Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities. Course duration 1 Day(s) Course outline 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

Appendix A: Microsoft Office Specialist Program
Platform Requirements

Windows XP Professional or Windows 2000 Professional

Hardware Requirements

For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware components:

A 233 MHz Pentium-class processor if you use Windows XP Professional as your operating system (300 MHz is recommended).
A 133 MHz Pentium-class processor if you use Windows 2000 Professional as your operating system.
128 MB of RAM.
A 5 GB hard disk if you use Windows XP Professional as your operating system. You should have at least 600 MB of free hard disk space available for the Office installation.
A 3 GB hard disk if you use Windows 2000 Professional as your operating system. You should have at least 600 MB of free hard disk space available for the Office installation.
A floppy disk drive.
A mouse or other pointing device.
An 800 x 600 resolution monitor.
Network cards and cabling for local network access.
Internet access (see your local network administrator).
A printer (optional).
A projection system to display the instructor's computer screen.

Software Requirements

Either Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1, or Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3.
Microsoft� Office Professional Enterprise Edition 2003.