PowerPoint 2003 Expert
Courseware Training Materials
Part of the Computer Expert Series

Intermediate / Advanced level computer training materials for delivering training to your students, staff or clients.  A courseware site licence allows you to train an unlimited number of people, at your training center using these teaching resources.

Training Course Outlines 

SLIDE MASTERS.

• Inserting new masters.
• Customizing a slide master.
• Using custom slide masters.

DESIGN TEMPLATES.

• Creating a new Design Template.
• Modifying a PowerPoint Design template.

FORMATTING PICTURES.

• Adjusting picture brightness and contrast levels.
• Converting a picture to a grayscale or 'black and white format.
• Formatting a graphic with a 'washout' format.
• Changing the colors within pictures and restoring the original colors.

MANIPULATING GRAPHICS.

• Displaying and hiding the ruler.
• Positioning a graphic on a slide using exact horizontal and vertical co-ordinates.
• Distributing selected graphics horizontally relative to a slide.
• Distributing selected graphics vertically relative to a slide.
• Cropping a graphic.
• Re-scaling pictures.
• Converting a Clip Art picture to an AutoShape and then editing the AutoShape.
• Saving a graphic as a separate graphics file.
• Applying a background graphic to a single slide.
• Hiding the background graphic on a single slide.
• Applying a background graphic to multiple slides.
• Hiding the background graphics on multiple slides.
• Applying a background graphic to every slide.
• Hiding the background graphic on every slide.

FORMATTING AUTOSHAPES.

• Applying background fill effects to an AutoShape.
• Applying a transparency effect to an AutoShape.
• Applying a 3-D effect to an AutoShape.
• AutoShapes and the Format Painter.
• Changing the default formatting for new AutoShapes.

DIAGRAMS.

• Creating an organization diagram.
• Creating a cycle diagram.
• Creating a pyramid diagram.
• Creating a flowchart.
• Editing Flowchart shapes and connectors.

CHARTS.

• Formatting the chart title.
• Formatting the chart legend.
• Formatting the data labels.
• Formatting the axes labels.
• Changing the chart type for data series.
• Changing the gap or overlap between columns or bars within a chart.
• Formatting columns or bars to display an image.
• Inserting a picture into plot and chart areas.
• Modifying the axis scale.

MOVIES AND SOUND.

• Inserting movies into a slide.
• Inserting sounds into a slide.

ANIMATION.

• Creating custom animation effects.
• Modifying custom animation settings.
• Changing the custom animation sequence.
• Using custom animation to fade bulleted paragraphs.
• Animating chart columns by series.
• Animating, or not animating, the chart grid and legend.

LINKING AND EMBEDDING.

• Action buttons - Linking to a different slide.
• Action buttons - Linking to a specific slide.
• Action buttons - Linking to a URL.
• Action buttons - Linking to a Custom Show.
• Action buttons - Linking to a different file.
• Linking data into a slide and displaying as an icon object.
• Linking and updating objects.
• Breaking a link.
• Inserting a link to a graphics file.
• Embedding data into a slide and displaying it as an object.
• Editing or deleting embedded data.

HYPERLINKS

• Creating and editing hyperlinks.

IMPORTING AND EXPORTING.

• Merging all the slides from one presentation into another presentation.
• Merging selected slides from one presentation into another presentation.
• Merging a Microsoft Word outline into a presentation.
• Saving a slide as a separate graphics file.

SLIDE SHOWS.

• Creating custom slide shows.
• Editing a custom slide show.
• Copying and deleting custom slide shows.
• Applying slide show transitions and timings.
• Controlling slide show looping.
• Applying settings so that slides advance manually.
• Setting slide show timings.
• Applying settings so that slide shows are displayed using animations.
• Applying settings so that slide shows are displayed without animations.
• Controlling a slide show.

PRESENTATION DESIGN

• Planning your presentation.
• Turn off your computer screen saver.
• Presentation timing.
• Using graphics, diagrams and charts to convey ideas.
• Limiting the level of detail within a presentation.
• Design color considerations.
• Accessibility design considerations.