Discover just how easy it is to add some panache to your next presentation with PowerPoint. This course will take you through the basics of creating a PowerPoint presentation from templates; inserting, editing, and formatting text, tables, charts, diagrams, pictures, shapes, graphics, and objects, and more. Microsoft PowerPoint's most critical features are taught using a simulated environment and reinforced through performance-based practices and testing. Give that next presentation an extra boost by brushing up on your Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 fundamental skills. This course has received Microsoft Office Specialist certification. Use the Fundamentals, Intermediate, and Advanced courses to prepare for the PowerPoint Specialist exam.

In this course, you will learn to organize, prepare, and host presentations for on-screen and remote delivery. You will also learn how to publish, print, and export a presentation.

In this course, you will learn to customize presentations and collaborate with colleagues on presentations. To make a presentation effective and interesting for the audience, you need to format slides, and apply animation schemes and transition effects to slides. To ensure consistency in presentations, you should know how to apply a design template to slides and customize the master slide. To efficiently collaborate on presentations, you should know how to review, compare, and merge presentations.

Using PowerPoint will help you create effective, interesting, and easy-to-understand presentations. And the fun doesn't stop at your computer! With PowerPoint, you can design presentations for 35-millimeter slides, paper printouts, overhead transparencies, even the Internet! However you decide to use it, PowerPoint includes all the tools you'll need to include text, charts, tables, graphics, music, and animation. In this course, you will cover all the basics, including important changes to this version of the interface, most especially the Task Pane, so you don't want to skip this information.

In this course, you'll delve further into PowerPoint's capabilities. You'll learn to create and import charts and tables, both of which can be crucial to a well-rounded presentation. You will explore some formatting options as well, and spend some time creating custom graphics and designs. Finally, you will learn how to ensure an effective delivery by seeing to every last detail. This course assumes you're already able to navigate through the PowerPoint program, create a presentation using templates and from scratch, use the online Media Gallery to add multimedia clips, and are comfortable with PowerPoint's review and collaboration features.

Make your next PowerPoint presentation a show stopper. In this course, you'll learn how to develop and perfect your own style and jazz up your presentation using sounds, pictures, and visual effects. You ll learn how to ensure your message is effectively received catering to your audience's needs and hold its attention from your first word to your last.