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. 

 

Laptop Powerpoint Presentation Tips, Powerpoint Presentations, LCD Projector alternative for Laptop

Short to the point info.

 

For Better Presentations Avoid PowerPoint Pitfalls

Nice article from experience.

 

Creating Effective PowerPoint Presentations

Basic principles with examples.

 

 

PowerPoint 2000

 

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.

 

 

MS PowerPoint 2000

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)

 

EDIT202: PowerPoint Basics

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.

 

PowerPoint 97 (0ffice 97' /  98')

 

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.

 

PowerPoint in the Classroom

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.”

 

P O W E R P O I N T   9 7

From AITT (Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology): PPT 97  Mostly screen shot progression with basic directions. Good for basic beginner to advanced!

 

Powerpoint

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.

 

For PowerPoint 4.0/7.0  MS Office 95

 

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

 

Microsoft Power Point 4.0/7.0

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.

 

Power Point Tutorial

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.

 

PowerPoint Tutorial

“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