PowerPoint Basics

Opening PowerPoint
Understanding the screen
Inserting slides

Adding and editing content

Inserting text
Inserting notes, headers and footers
Formatting text and lists

Working with design

Customizing background
Applying and creating templates
Design tips

Working with graphics

Downloading, inserting and editing images
Image Resources for Health & Life Sciences
Drawing and editing objects

Working with animation

Animating text and images
Slide transitions

Adding sound and video

Sounds, narration and music
Video requirements

Graphs and tables

Working with graphs
Importing and linking data from Excel to PowerPoint

PowerPoint online

Hyperlinks and action buttons
Putting up a presentation on the web

Printing and Presenting

Printing options
Running a slide show

Links

PowerPoint DO's and DON'T's
Other PowerPoint websites
Workshop evaluation
(for on-site workshop participants only)

Other PowerPoint Online Tutorials

PowerPoint 2007:

Excellent tutorial on PowerPoint 2007 as well as the 2003/2004 version (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
http://www.uwec.edu/help/ppoint07.htm

University of Washington Powerpoint 2007:
http://catalyst.washington.edu/help/documentation/powerpoint2007/index.html

PowerPoint 2003 (Windows):

Excellent tutorial on PowerPoint 2003 (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
http://www.uwec.edu/help/ppoint03.htm

The Potential of PowerPoint 2003/2004 (University of Michigan)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/guides/displayDocument?docID=136

University of Washington Powerpoint 2003:
http://catalyst.washington.edu/help/documentation/powerpoint/index.html

Microsoft's PowerPoint 2003 support center
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;ppt2003

PowerPoint 2002 (XP):

PowerPoint FAQ (maintained by RnR PPTools, PowerTools for PowerPoint)
Great source of tutorials as well as troubleshooting help
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/

Graphics, bitmaps, scanning & digital cameras for on-screen or projected presentations (by http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com)
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm

PowerPoint & QuickTime (by Geetesh Bajaj) -- Excellent!
http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppquicktime.html

Microsoft's PowerPoint 2002 support center
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;ppt2002

PowerPoint Mac 2001 (Macintosh):

PowerPoint FAQ for MACs (maintained by RnR PPTools, PowerTools for PowerPoint)
http://pptfaq.com/index.html#name_MAC_FAQS

Academic Technology Center, University of the South
http://forum1.sewanee.edu/IRC/Tutorial/Mac/ppt2001.htm

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