PowerPoint Tutorials Online
First,
take a look at these guidelines to good presentation design:
Creating
Effective Presentations!
A
web PowerPoint presentation that presents the basics and is a good example of a
presentation and provides good,
major points of importance.
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article from experience.
Creating
Effective PowerPoint Presentations
Basic
principles with examples.
In
and Out of the Classroom - Office 2000 PowerPoint
Tutorial
with screen shots and graphics on PowerPoint 2000 from Microsoft.
New
Perspectives on Office 2000 Professional, PowerPoint Tutorials
From
Thomson Learning. Not really a
tutorial, but an assignment for students to use the application. There is a
sample PowerPoint file on making a presentation about the flu that you download
and then follow directions to manipulate.
You are asked to do some Internet research at the National Institue of
Health and then incorporate the info. This is tutorial
3
More
good examples of assignments for classes under left column menu:
PowerPoint Tutorial 1,2,3,4
PowerPoint
Table of Contents, ITM UWEC
From
the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire; Good in depth treatment; few screen
shots but good text.
From
Canterbury Christ Church University College; View tutorials in PDF format (You
will need to have downloaded Adobe Acrobat, Click here
to get the free player)
Microsoft
PowerPoint Tutorials
From
Univ. of North Carolina; PowerPoint 2000 tutorial; lots of discussion.
PDF File (You will need to have downloaded Adobe Acrobat, Click here
to get the free player)
From
Univ. of Alberta, Canada; good though long scroll – from 2000; “This
tutorial explains some of the basic features of Microsoft PowerPoint. Most of
the screenshots were obtained from Microsoft 2000 for Windows, but will appear
very similar in PowerPoint 97 for Windows and PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh,
unless otherwise specified. “
Includes
advanced topics: Speaker Notes, Background/Color Scheme, Headers/Footers,
Graphics, Audio & Video, Charts, Transitions, Slide Show Animation.
Learning
PowerPoint 2000 Lesson 1 Contents
From
the Land-Grant Training Alliance
A
very complete tutorial, but mostly text though you are shown the icons to press.
ED596
- PowerPoint Tutorial: Home
From Oregon State University. Does not state which version of PowerPoint, but it seems like the Office ’97 version . This site was built for students in a class by their professor, updated through 1999. There is a presentation with some good basic rules about using PowerPoint, and instruction modules with step-by-step explanations with screen shots.
PowerPoint
Tutorial from University of Leeds
From
the University of Leeds. Good intro to PowerPoint, Office 97, with screen shots.
Cute
cartoon-like tutorial for PowerPoint ’97.
Microsoft
PowerPoint tutorials
From
Maharishi University A long
scrolling page with screen shots “These tutorials were designed in PowerPoint
97 & 98. However, they should be very close for PowerPoint 2000.”
From
AITT (Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology): PPT 97
Mostly screen shot progression with basic directions. Good for basic
beginner to advanced!
From Clemson University Industrial Engineering; Creating PowerPoint presentations for the Web; creating PowerPoint from wizard, converting PowerPoint to HTML/web pages. This Tutorial is aimed at users who have a basic, not extensive, knowledge of PowerPoint® as a presentation tool. Simple actions are not developed, unless the procedure is unusual. You can use the PowerPoint® Help Menu to help you if you encounter any difficulty with some of the PowerPoint® basic functions.
Learning
Microsoft PowerPoint 7.0 Contents
From
the Land-Grant Training Alliance
A very complete tutorial, but mostly text though you are shown the icons to press.
Power
Point Tutorial for PowerPoint 4.0
Instructor
Carol Siwinski - Germantown Academy :”With Microsoft PowerPoint you can create
overhead slides, speaker's notes, audience handouts, and an outline, all in a
single presentation file. PowerPoint uses powerful wizards to help you create
and organize your presentation step by step.”
Basically text directions on how to create with this application
From
Boston College: PPT for Win 95 and Mac. “This page was written to serve as a
hands-on exercise and reference page for Microsoft PowerPoint. It is designed
for Macintosh and Windows 95 systems running PowerPoint 4.0 (Mac) or 7.0 (Win
95). Certain portions of the exercise require Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 to be
installed on the same system as PowerPoint. If you do not have these
applications, simply skip those sections of the exercise.” Uses screen
illustrations.
From
Louisiana State University. This PowerPoint tutorial runs in a narrow vertical
frame so you can open the PowerPoint program and do the hands-on instructions as
read them.
Intro
to PowerPoint for Windows
This
is all text, but it can be printed and followed while the program is on your
computer screen.
“This guide offers PowerPoint beginners an easy and helpful guide for learning the fundamentals of PowerPoint so that you too can create your own presentations. It also serves as a ready reference tool of reminders for the multitude of basic functions and procedures as you explore the vast capabilities of PowerPoint.”
PowerPoint
97 Basics Trisha Klass
PowerPoint
97 Basics Trisha Klass; long scroll – hits basics well with screen shots; A
detailed tutorial geared to beginner Windows 95 users. Topics include: Open and
Start the Program, Select the Type of Presentation You Want, Five Different
Views in PowerPoint, Altering Text, Altering Graphics, Completing Functions in
Slide Sorter View, Save files, Show a Slide Show, The Slide Master, Print, and
Exit PowerPoint