PowerPoint 2000 MOS - Online Course

This series shows users how to create presentations using PowerPoint 2000. The series is designed to help users prepare for the MOS PowerPoint 2000 Core examination. The basics of PowerPoint, including navigation, templates, copying and deleting slides, and modifying the Slide Master, are presented. Detailed information on layout concepts and inserting text is provided, as well as how to integrate graphics and tables in presentations. Advanced topics covered include adding custom features and formatting, producing notes and handouts, running a slide show, and Web-based features such as hyperlinks, emailing slides, and publishing to the Web.

This series targets anyone preparing for the MOS PowerPoint 2000 Core exam. This online course contains 5 lessons and should take approximately 16 hours to complete.

Lesson 1: Presentations (4.0) hours

Presentations teaches you how to navigate all of the PowerPoint views, create a presentation from a template, wizard, or existing slides, copy and delete slides, modify the slide master and slide sequence, and insert headers and footers. This course shows users how to create original presentations. It demonstrates the different views for slide production and shows how to create master slides using repeating elements. Topics include Normal and Outline Views, Slide Views and Notes Page, Wizards and Templates, Creating and Deleting Slides, Using and Copying Slides, Modifying a Presentation, and Masters, Headers, and Footers.

Lesson 2: Layout and Text (4.0) hours

Layout and Text teaches you how to change the layout for one or more slides, use the Format Painter, change and replace text fonts, create a text box for entering text, promote and demote text in Slide and Outline panes, and import text from Word. This course shows users how to make layout changes and to work with text. Important features, such as Spell Check, Format Painter, and Text Wrap are included. Topics include Changing the Layout, Spell Check and Replace Text, Text Alignment and Format Painter, Outline Panes and Text Boxes, and Using the Clipboard and Importing Text.

Lesson 3: Graphics and Tables (3.0) hours

Graphics and Tables teaches you how to add clip art, pictures, shapes, and WordArt, rotate, fill, scale, and size an object, apply formatting, place text inside a shape using a text box, and create tables within PowerPoint. This course shows users how to work with graphics, objects, and drawing shapes. Special features of PowerPoint 2000, including grouping shapes, scaling and sizing objects, applying shadows, and WordArt are covered. Topics include Using Objects, Rotating, Filling, and Sizing an Object, Formatting Objects and Adding a Text Box, and Creating Tables within PowerPoint.

Lesson 4: Custom Slides (3.0) hours

Custom Slides teaches you how to add AutoNumber and graphical bullets, add slide transitions, animate text and objects, preview a presentation in black and white, print slides and audience handouts, and add and print speaker notes. This course shows users how to add custom features and formatting to slides. These special formatting features include bullets, slide transitions, and animation. Producing speaker notes, audience handouts, and transparencies are also covered. Topics include Adding AutoNumber and Graphical Bullets, Slide Transitions and Animation, Previewing and Printing Slides, and Speaker Notes and Transparencies.

Lesson 5: Showing Slides (2.0) hours

Showing Slides teaches you how to start a slide show on any slide, use on-screen navigation tools and the pen, save changes to a new or existing presentation, publish a presentation to the Web, use the Office Assistant, and insert a hyperlink. This course shows users how to run a slide show, including navigating on-screen and using the pointer pen. Creating hyperlinks, publishing to the Web, and e-mailing slides are also covered. Topics include On-Screen Slide Shows and Office Assistant, Hyperlinks and Slide Changes, and Saving and E-Mailing a Presentation.