CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE	INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRAINING GUIDE

PowerPoint 2000 Basics

This document provides basic instructions for creating a slide presentation using PowerPoint 2000 on your desktop Windows computer. If you are using PowerPoint 97 (Windows) or PowerPoint 98 (Macintosh), see PowerPoint 97/98 Basics.

1		Some PowerPoint Definitions

2		Opening PowerPoint
		Startup Choices The PowerPoint Window

3		Creating Slides - New Layouts
		Layout Choices Positioning or Resizing a Text Box or Image Changing Bulleting Items Adding Clip Art Charts and Graphs Entering Data Seeing How It Looks Displaying Your Data with a Different Graph Tables Organization Charts Editing the Org Chart Adding a New Box, Changing a Link Style, or Modifying the Look of a Box Viewing the Org Chart

4		The Many Views of Your PowerPoint Presentation
		Normal View Outline View Slide View Sorter View Slide Show View

5		Changing the Look and Feel of Your PowerPoint Presentation

6		Building Transitions and Effects on Your Slides
		Transitions Adding Timing and/or Sound Effects Viewing All Your Effects

7		Making Global Changes to Your PowerPoint Presentation Using the Master Pages Feature

8		How to Learn More

Prepared by Chris Sales, User Support Services

March 19, 2001

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