There’s a lot more to PowerPoint’s features than building bulleted lists. In this free online course, students already familiar with PowerPoint basics will learn techniques for making their PowerPoint presentations more interesting and fun for the audience with techniques like custom animation, music, narration, and interactivity.
This online course is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and goes from Sep 15 2005 – Oct 28 2005. You can enroll at any time. An instructor leads the class and will assist you in the lessons as you learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint with its advanced features. HP Learning Center provides free online classes and courses in many areas.
Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Free Online Class:
h30187.www3.hp.com/courses/overview.jsp?courseId=3704
What you’ll learn:
…* Apply and customize templates and color schemes
…* Modify and create Slide Masters
…* Optimize photo sizes and resolutions
…* Use audio CD soundtracks
…* Record voice-over narration
…* Apply custom animation effects
…* Create user-interactive buttons and hyperlinks
…* Prepare a presentation for Web use
…* Build a menu system
…* Copy a presentation to CD
Prerequisites:
…*None
Lessons:
Lesson 1: Templates, color schemes, and masters
It’s easy to create great-looking presentations with PowerPoint’s built-in templates, but that’s just the beginning. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to extend and modify those templates, and how to create your own color schemes, layouts, and slide masters.
Lesson 2: Placing and formatting graphics
In this lesson, you’ll learn smart strategies for including photographs and other graphics in your presentations. You’ll learn how to format drawn objects and clip art with interesting fill effects, align and distribute objects, and break down and edit the clip art that comes with PowerPoint to create your own custom clip art images.
Lesson 3: Sound effects, soundtracks, and narration
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to insert and manage audio files in PowerPoint, including how to select the best file formats, how to associate a sound with a slide, an image, or an effect, and how to use CD audio tracks and voice-over narration in your show.
Lesson 4: Custom animation effects
With PowerPoint’s custom animation effects, you can move from staid-and-static to dynamic-and-dramatic. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to apply custom animation effects, stack multiple effects on a single slide, specify custom timing and triggers, and create your own animation motion paths.
Lesson 5: User interactivity
Not everyone uses PowerPoint as an aid for a live speech; more and more people are distributing their PowerPoint content interactively these days. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to create the buttons and links needed to help people navigate through your presentation file when you’re not there to help them. You’ll also learn how to set up a relatively secure self-running or interactive kiosk show for unattended use.
Lesson 6: Other cool things PowerPoint can do
There’s so much more that PowerPoint can do! In this lesson, you’ll explore a sampling of the less-common PowerPoint features and capabilities, including using video clips, recording macros, creating custom shows, building menu systems, and copying presentations to videotape.
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