Basics and Intermediate PowerPoint Tutorials

Here are two PowerPoint Tutorials for PowerPoint Basics on Creating a Slide Presentation, one each for the 2002 (XP) and 2000 versions. Also included here is an Intermediate PowerPoint Tutorial giving you several tips and tricks you can use to make PowerPoint work better and smoother for you. These are provided by California State University, Northridge.


PowerPoint 2002 Basics

This tutorial teaches the steps for making a nice looking slide presentation using PowerPoint XP. Features covered in this tutorial and the one below for Powerpoint 2000 include the following: Startup Choices, The PowerPoint Window, Creating Slides, Layout Choices, Positioning and Resizing a Text Box or Image, Bulleted Items, Adding Clip Art, Charts and Graphs, Tables, Organization Charts, Normal View, Slide Sorter View, Slide Show View, Changing the Look and Feel of Your Presentation, Building Transitions and Effects on Your Slides, Effects, and Using Master Pages to Make Global Changes.

1. Some PowerPoint Definitions
2. Opening PowerPoint
   • Startup Choices
   • The PowerPoint Window
3. Creating Slides - New Layouts
   • Layout Choices
   • Positioning or Resizing a Text Box or Image
   • Changing Bulleted Items
   • Adding Clip Art
   • Charts and Graphs
     • Creating and Editing a Graph
     • Displaying Your Data with a Different Graph
   • Tables
   • Organization Charts
4. The Many Views of Your PowerPoint Presentation
   • Normal View
   • Slide Sorter View
   • Slide Show View
5. Changing the Look and Feel of Your PowerPoint Presentation
6. Building Transitions and Effects on Your Slides
   • Transitions
     • Adding Timing and/or Sound
   • Effects
   • Viewing Your Transitions and Effects
7. Using Master Pages to Make Global Changes
8. How to Learn More: PowerPoint's Help Options

PowerPoint 2000 Basics

This tutorial teaches the steps for making a nice looking slide presentation using PowerPoint 2000.

1. Some PowerPoint Definitions
2. Opening PowerPoint
   • Startup Choices
   • The PowerPoint Window
3. Creating Slides - New Layouts
   • Layout Choices
   • Positioning or Resizing a Text Box or Image
   • Changing Bulleted Items
   • Adding Clip Art
   • Charts and Graphs
     • Entering Data
     • Seeing How It Looks
     • Displaying Your Data with a Different Graph
   • Tables
   • Organization Charts
   • Editing the Org Chart
   • Adding a New Box, Changing a Link Style, or Modifying the Look of a Box
   • Viewing the Org Chart
4. The Many Views of Your PowerPoint Presentation
   • Normal View
   • Outline View
   • Slide View
   • Sorter View
   • Slide Show View
5. Changing the Look and Feel of Your PowerPoint Presentation
6. Building Transitions and Effects on Your Slides
   • Transitions
   • Adding Timing and/or Sound
   • Effects
   • Viewing All Your Effects
7. Making Global Changes to Your PowerPoint Presentation Using the Master Pages Feature
8. How to Learn More

PowerPoint 2003 - Intermediate Guide - Tips and Tricks
(12 pages, 270kb, pdf format)

The following PowerPoint features and functionality are taught and demonstrated by this tutorials: Recoloring Clip Art, Cropping Clip Art and Images, Ungrouping Clip Art, the Picture Toolbar, Custom Backgrounds, Color Schemes, Modifying a Design Template, Customizing Design Templates, Saving a Template, Applying Animation and Additional Effects, Adding Interactivity, Inserting a Movie or Sound, Putting Your Presentation on the Web. 

Table of Contents:

1. Course Description
2. Recoloring Clip Art
3. Cropping Clip Art and Images
4. Ungrouping Clip Art
5. Using the Picture Toolbar
6. Creating a Custom Background
7. Change Color Scheme
8. Modifying a Presentation Design Template
9. Create a Customized Presentation Design Template
10. To Save a Template for Future Use
11. Applying Animation Effects  Additional effects
12. Adding Interactivity
13. Insert a Movie and/or Sound Clip
14. Insert WordArt
15. Putting Your PowerPoint 2003 Presentation on the Web

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