This Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 advanced training course is designed will help you to obtain the skills required to create customised presentations. You will learn to add various types of different object to slides, such as charts, tables, and diagrams. You will also learn to use master slides and colour schemes. You will also be able to package and deliver a presentation in different formats and create interactive presentations using action settings and hyperlinks.

Target audience

Those wanting to obtain intermediate skills in using presentation graphics software, to create presentations incorporating different types of object and a higher level of customised formatting and navigation.

With its companion course (Microsoft PowerPoint Introduction), students can use this course to prepare for MOS PowerPoint Core Objectives. A document mapping lessons in the course to certification objectives is provided on the course data disk

Course prerequisites

Ideally, you will have completed the course "Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Level 1". You should be able to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create, edit, format, and deliver a basic presentation and use design templates

Course Content

Using Master Slides

• Modify the Slide, Title, Notes, and Handouts Masters
• Work with multiple masters
• Insert headers and footers and slide numbering
• Create and modify a presentation template

Colour Schemes

• Apply a colour scheme to selected slides
• Customise a colour scheme

Background Effects

• Apply different slide background colours
• Apply texture, pattern, and picture fill backgrounds

Margins, Indents, and Tabs

• Change margin settings in a text box
• Change the position of indents
• Set the position of tab stops

Arranging Objects

• Arrange and transform objects
• Set options for the drawing grid
• Group and ungroup shapes

Creating Simple Drawings

• Insert a picture or drawing canvas
• Use the Drawing toolbar to create basic shapes and lines
• Draw and modify AutoShapes
• Add text to a shape

Inserting a Chart

• Insert a new graph using Microsoft Graph
• Reposition, resize, and delete a graph object
• Modify an embedded graph object
• Change data using the datasheet
• Change the chart type

Creating a Diagram

• Create a diagram or organisation chart
• Modify the layout of a diagram or organisation chart
• Format a diagram or organisation chart
• Apply an AutoFormat to a diagram or organisation chart

PowerPoint 2003 - Using Tables on Slides

• Create a table in PowerPoint
• Modify a PowerPoint table
• Add a table from Word

Importing and Exporting Data

• Understand Object Linking and Embedding
• Insert or paste a linked or embedded object
• Edit an OLE object
• Import text from Word
• Export an outline or slides to Word
• Create a new presentation from existing slides
• Copy a slide from one presentation into another

Action Settings

• Create a self-running or looping slide show
• Set and rehearse automatic slide timings
• Use an action button as a hyperlink
• Use any text or object as a hyperlink
• Use action settings to open or edit an object or application
• Use action settings to play a sound

Distributing a Presentation

• Save a presentation in a different file format
• Save a slide as a graphic
• Save a drawing as a picture file

Publishing a Web Presentation

• Format a presentation for web publishing
• Publish a presentation to the web
• View a presentation on the web
• Save HTML to a specific target browser

Packaging a Presentation

• Package a presentation for another computer
• Save embedded fonts in a presentation
• Change the presentation output format
• Use Presenter View to deliver a presentation
• Export to 35mm slides

Collaborating on a Presentation

• Send or save a presentation for review
• Add and edit comments
• Merge changes made by reviewers