DAY ONE

Chapter One: The Fundamentals
Starting PowerPoint
Understanding the PowerPoint Program Screen
Using Menus
Using Toolbars and Creating a New Presentation
Filling Out Dialog Boxes
Keystroke and Right Mouse Button Shortcuts
Opening a Presentation
Saving and Closing a Presentation and Exiting PowerPoint
Creating a New Presentation with the AutoContent Wizard
Creating a Blank Presentation and Creating a Presentation from a Template
Moving Around in Your Presentations
Viewing Your Presentation
Printing Your Presentation
Getting Help

Chapter Two: Editing a Presentation
Inserting Slides and Text
Using the Outline Pane
Editing Text
Selecting, Replacing, and Deleting Text
Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
Using Undo, Redo, and Repeat
Checking Your Spelling
Finding and Replacing Information
Viewing a Presentation Outline
Rearranging a Presentation Outline
Inserting Symbols and Special Characters
Working in Slide Sorter View
Adding Notes to Your Slides
Working with Multiple Windows
Collecting and Pasting Multiple Items
File Management
Understanding Smart Tags
Recovering Your Presentations

Chapter Three: Formatting your Presentation
Formatting Fonts with the Formatting Toolbar
Advanced Font Formatting with Font Dialog Box
Using the Format Painter
Applying a Template Formatting
Using the Slide Master
Choosing a Color Scheme
Changing the Background of Your Slides
Working with Bulleted and Numbered Lists
Changing Paragraph Alignment and Line Spacing
Adding Headers and Footers
Working with Tabs and Indents
Changing the Page Setup

Chapter Four: Working with Graphics
Drawing on Your Slides
Adding, Arranging, and Formatting Text Boxes
Selecting, Resizing, Moving, and Deleting Objects
Formatting Objects
Inserting Clip Art
Inserting and Formatting Pictures
Aligning and Grouping Objects
Drawing AutoShapes
Flipping and Rotating Objects
Layering Objects
Applying Shadows and 3-D Effects
Inserting a WordArt Object
Formatting a WordArt Object
Adding Shading and Fills

Chapter Five: Working with Multimedia
Inserting Sounds
Adding Voice Narration to Your Slides
Inserting a Movie Clip
Automating the Multimedia in Your Presentation

Chapter Six: Delivering you Presentation
Delivering a Presentation on a Computer
Using Slide Transitions
Using Custom Animations
Rehearsing Slide Show Timings
Creating a Presentation that Runs by Itself
Creating a Custom Show
Packaging and Copying a Presentation to CD
Viewing a Packaged Presentation


DAY TWO

Chapter Seven: Working with Tables
Creating a Table
Working with a Table
Adjusting Column Width and Row Height
Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
Adding Borders to a Table

Chapter Eight: Working with Charts and Organization Charts
Creating a Chart
Modifying a Chart
Selecting a Chart Type
Creating an Organization Chart
Modifying your Organization Chart
Formatting Your Organization Chart

Chapter Nine: Working with Other Programs and the Internet
Inserting a Slide into a Microsoft Word Document
Embedding a Microsoft Excel Worksheet into a Slide
Modifying an Embedded Object
Inserting a Linked Excel Chart
Importing and Exporting an Outline
Using Hyperlinks
Using Action Buttons
Saving a Presentation as a Web Page
Viewing a Web-Based Presentation

Chapter Ten: Advanced Topics
Hiding, Displaying, and Moving Toolbars
Customizing PowerPoint's Toolbars
Adding Comments to a Slide
Customizing PowerPoint's Default Options


Student Practice Files for this class are located here.