Microsoft PowerPoint 97
Intermediate Course

This course follows on from the Microsoft PowerPoint 97 beginners course. As this is not a course for beginners, it is assumed that you have a basic working knowledge of Power Point and can perform certain elementary tasks. It is designed to guide you through the most important features of the program, using language that is easy to understand and examples that are easy to follow.

Participants will need to prioritise which of the following topics they wish to cover:

• The Open & Save A Dialogue Boxes
  storing presentations
  opening/saving & closing a presentation
  
• General Editing
  using the font/bulleted box
  undo and redo tasks
  more text formatting

• Copying & Moving Objects
  cutting/copying/pasting objects
  autofill - dates/text/numbers
  working with two or more presentations
  
• Checking For Errors
  using the spell checker
  adding your own corrections
  style checker
  
• Adding Text & Drawing Shapes
  using the drawing toolbar and formatting lines
  rectangles/circles/curves/scribbles
  3-D effects and settings
  
• Creating An Organisation Chart
  adding the organisation chart
  formatting chart components
  creating an organisation chart as part of a presentation
  

• Masters
  viewing the slide master
  adding other objects to the slide master
  adding a picture to the title master
  
• Objects
  selecting/re-sizing/moving objects
  colours and lines
  
• Word Art
  inserting wordart
  formatting wordart
  returning to the slides
  
• Charts
  creating a chart
  formatting the chart
  importing a Microsoft Excel chart
  
• Find & Replace
  using find and ending a search
  using and undoing a replace
  
• Microsoft Word Tables & Excel Worksheets
  adding lines to the word table
  inserting a Microsoft Excel worksheet
  
• Presenting
  preparing for your presentation
  transition effects and builds
  

• Start and exit PowerPoint; open, save and close presentations
  
• Use the menus, toolbar buttons and shortcut key combinations
  
• Use the AutoContent wizard
  
• Change and zoom the view; use the Slide, Outline, Slide Sorter and Notes Page views; hide and show toolbars
  
• Apply Designs to change the loom of your presentation
  
• Use the transition and animation effects to enliven your presentation
  
• Insert ClipArt; create a simple chart
  
• Run a presentation
  
• Print a presentation; create audience handouts
  
• Use the Pack And Go Wizard to package a presentation onto diskette(s); retrieve the presentation from diskette to perform the presentation on another computer
  
  

The session will be largely self directed using the latest commercial training manuals, thus allowing you to work at your own pace and cover the topics important to you. You will therefore need to prioritise from this information page, prior to the training day to decide what you want to cover.

The Trainer/Tutor
Our trainers are all "Quality Assured" and have a wealth of practical experience in the field of computer applications with qualifications to match. We are using the latest in purpose written Information Technology training courseware.

With so much to learn, it's time to get started!
GOOD LUCK!