Software version number: 8.0

Course length: 1 day

Overview: Students will learn the basic skills necessary to begin effectively creating presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint 97.

Prerequisites: Windows 95: Introduction, Windows 95: Making the Transition, or equivalent knowledge.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Benefits: Students will learn how to start the program, create and edit slides, incorporate clip art and charts, and run a slide show.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basic concepts involved in working with a personal computer (PC). No prior knowledge of PowerPoint is assumed.

What's next: PowerPoint 97: Introduction (Windows 95) is the first course in this series. PowerPoint 97: Advanced (Windows 95), the next course in this series, teaches students how to use advanced features of PowerPoint 97.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Start the PowerPoint program, identify on-screen features, and navigate through a presentation.
• Create and edit bullet slides.
• Use PowerPoint's drawing tools to create a slide.
• Incorporate clip art and WordArt objects in a slide.
• Create and enhance organization charts, and create and edit charts by using Microsoft Graph.
• Change the overall appearance of a presentation by using design templates and the Slide Master.
• Run a slide show, become familiar with slide show options, and add notes to a slide.

Course content

• Starting PowerPoint and opening a presentation
• Orientation to the PowerPoint presentation screen
• Orientation to views

Lesson 2: Beginning a presentation

• Creating a title and bullet slide in Slide view
• Creating a slide in Outline view
• Editing slides
• Spelling

Lesson 3: Drawing tools

• Working with drawing tools
• Working with text and drawn objects
• Enhancing drawn objects

Lesson 4: Clip art and WordArt

• Using clip art
• Using WordArt

Lesson 5: Organization charts and Microsoft Graph

• Creating an organization chart
• Organization-chart options
• Orientation to Microsoft Graph
• Editing a column chart

Lesson 6: Templates and the Slide Master

• Selecting and applying a template
• Changing text and bullets in the Slide Master
• Removing Slide Master objects and adding a footer

Lesson 7: Slide shows, output, and presentation options