Learn Online: Absolute MS PowerPoint Tutorial

Welcome to the online tutorial of Microsoft PowerPoint 2003.

Whether you want to make a presentation in your office, business, your school, or for any such purposes, PowerPoint is a handy, powerful and time saving tool to prepare a presentation effectively, professionally, and attractively. This course is designed for anyone who would want to master PowerPoint quickly and easily. It is easy to grasp because of the pictorial representations at every step of the way. This tutorial deals with the basics and the intermediate level of PowerPoint 2003. This course comprises of exhaustive chapters which are very easy and thorough to master. Once you have completed this course, you will be able to create breathtaking slides and take up any challenging projects or assignments.

You don't have to be a professional to take this course. Just a basic working knowledge of computers should suffice. The main advantage of taking this course is that this course can be completed at your convenience. There is no pressure or deadline, just a thorough learning.

After completing this course you will be able to create slides quickly and professionally.

The course material provided for this course is more than sufficient. However, if you need to quench your inquisitiveness, please refer the class net links for further inputs.

Grading will be done on a percentage basis. The total percentage that can be scored is 100%.
Students will be awarded a "Certificate of Academic Excellence" for achieving a grade of 70% or higher. Students will be awarded a "Certificate of Outstanding Achievement" for completing all the quizzes and assignments required for this course.

This course could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the course herein. I may make improvements and/or changes in the course material to include new features incorporated in the latest versions.

1) Introduction - Part I

This chapter gives an overview of how to launch PowerPoint, the PowerPoint window, its parts and their functions.

2) Introduction - Part II

This will be a continuation of the previous chapter covering topics about drop-down menus and PowerPoint help.

3) Text Manipulation

This chapter enlightens you of the basic operations on text like entering, selecting, deleting, copying, and pasting text. You will also learn the undo,redo, and repeat features. By the end of the chapter you will know how to save the file and close the PowerPoint program.

4) Formatting Text

This chapter starts off with the learning of how to open a saved presentation. It then moves on to acquiring the knowledge about changing the font size, color, face, superscript, subscript, and format painter. You will also learn to provide cool effects for the text.

5) Paragraph, Placeholder, and Font Management

This chapter talks about paragraphs, their alignment in the slide, and providing spacing between them. You will also be able to make global font face change by using the Replace Font feature. Additionally, the chapter also discusses about resizing and moving the placeholders and changing the case of the text.

6) Spell checker, Thesaurus, and Dynamics of Text Box

This chapter explains all about using the spell checking and thesaurus feature. It also deals exhaustively on inserting, deleting, tilting, moving, formatting of the text box. You will also learn to increase or decrease the width of the text box.

7) Autocorrect Options and Kinetics of Slides

This chapter starts off with a real cool feature about AutoCorrect Options, which can save a lot of your time and help in reducing your mistakes. Next you will have an insight on adding a new slide, deleting and duplicating a slide, opening a new presentation, and adding slide numbers, date, time, and footer for your slides.

8) Shooting Bullets into Slides

This chapter covers topics on selecting slides, applying text layouts, creating bulleted lists, changing the bullet size, shape, and color, customizing bullet shapes, and adding picture bullets.

9) Decorating Slides with Numbered Lists

This chapter helps in understanding a little more about lists like changing a bulleted to a numbered list, providing multiple levels of bullets, and the list alignment. Nearing the end of the chapter you will learn about formatting a text placeholder and applying preset slide designs.

10) Embedding Tables

This chapter will be the first part in the learning of tables. It deals with the parts of a table, tables and borders toolbar, ways to insert a table, entering text, selecting cells, inserting and deleting rows, columns, and an entire table.

11) Transforming Table Appearance - Part I

Having understood the basics of tables, you will now be geared to understand the different formatting techniques relating to tables. You will learn about changing the column width and row height, formatting table text, aligning text in a cell, splitting and merging cells. You will also have a peek as to how to use the draw table and eraser tool.

12) Transforming Table Appearance - Part II

This is will be a color filled chapter. You will know about formatting and removing borders. You will apply colors to the cells of the table. Also gain the knowledge about distributing rows and columns evenly.

13) Playing with AutoShapes - Part I

This chapter carries a detailed description about selecting, resizing, rotating, moving, copy-pasting, formatting, adding and editing the text of an AutoShape.

14) Playing with AutoShapes - Part II

This is an extension of the previous chapter, which deals with filling an AutoShape with a texture, pattern, and picture. You will also learn about applying shadows to the AutoShape and change shadow settings.

15) 3-D Effects for AutoShapes and Managing ClipArt

This chapter gives an insight on applying 3-D effects to the AutoShapes and changing the 3-D settings. In addition, you will learn about inserting, resizing, moving, copy-pasting, formatting, adding background colors, and boundaries to a ClipArt.

16) Trimming ClipArts

This chapter discusses an alternate way to resize a ClipArt, positioning, and recoloring of the ClipArt. You will also understand as to how to crop the picture and change image control settings.

17) Coloring and Managing the Slides

This will be a fun and color filled chapter dealing with color schemes for the slides, deleting a color scheme, applying single and two-colored backgrounds for the slides. You will be able to view the slides in the slide sorter view, alter the placement of the slides, and hide a slide.

18) Preparing for the Presentation

This chapter will be a last thread before displaying the slide show. It talks about adding speaker notes, selecting the notes placeholder, adding date, time, page number, header, and footer to the notes, printing the notes and slides, and using print preview.

19) Conducting the Slide Show

This is chapter you have been waiting for. You will learn how to start a slide show. It will also cover the topics on navigation of the slides, adding and erasing ink from the slide, and transition effects.

20) Animating the slides

This chapter adds life to your slides. You will learn about animation schemes, animating a bulleted list, reordering the animations, effect options, removing the animations and effects, and previewing the slides in grayscale and black and white view.

21) Audio Effects

This chapter adds voice to your slides. It covers adding a sound from a file and playing a sound track from your CD.