COURSE DESCRIPTION

With PowerPoint 2000, you use graphics, text, movies, sounds, and the Internet to share information on any topic and make dynamic presentations. Using PowerPoint 2000 templates, you can quickly and easily create presentations for many purposes, including lectures, research reports, meeting handouts and agendas, speaker introductions, and flyers.

This course will help you create and organize presentations by assisting in developing presentation outlines and selecting various slide layouts. The tri-pane feature of PowerPoint 2000 allows you to view the slides, outline, and notes simultaneously so that you can easily organize the information you want to present in the slides.

Once you learn to use PowerPoint 2000, you can:

**Create presentations with the AutoContent Wizard.

**Add and delete slide from presentations.

**Customize a slide layout.

**Add notes.

**Use the Web to view presentations.

TAKING THIS COURSE

It is recommended that you begin with the 1st lesson (Overview), and go through each lesson in order as listed (ending with Putting It Together).

ADVISORIES AND NOTICES

This website is not a credit or certificate/degree granting program. This content is freely available as an educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners.

**No instructor or moderator is present.

**This course was created by Microsoft and is part of Microsoft In Education and may be taken/obtained on their website (click here).

**Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Publisher are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Click here to purchase Microsoft Office.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Before you begin the activities in this course, make sure that Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 has been installed on your computer and is operating correctly.

CONVENTIONS

The procedures given in this book use the following conventions:

• “Click” means to use the mouse to point to an area on the screen and press the left (primary) mouse button, unless the right (secondary) mouse button is specified.

• Commands are in bold type. For example, “click Next“ means to place the cursor over the “Next“ button and click.

• Information you are to type is in italics.

• Some activities use shortcut keys, which are keystroke combinations that help you use the software more productively. The CTRL (for control) and the TAB keys are examples of key names commonly used in shortcut keys. When the directions specify CTRL+N, hold down the CTRL key, and then press the N key.