October 5, 2005
Free PowerPoint Tutorials Teach Basics And Advanced Skills
PowerPoint is not hard to learn on your own, if you just want simple slides with some text. But if you want great slides that add up to a great presentation, the learning curve can become steep.
Isn't it nice that so many Web sites offer free PowerPoint tutorials?
MasterViews has done a survey of free PowerPoint tutorials available on the Web and selected a list of those we consider easy to use, accurate, covering most recent versions, and with both basic and advanced topics.
Each tutorial is listed by name and includes its publisher and any useful information about its contents or use.
- University of Wisconsin Eau Claire LTS Online Help Documentation.
Designed for the real beginner, this tutorial covers all of the basics for PowerPoint 2002 and 2003.
You can use it online and print it for your personal use, but if you intend to print and distribute it for others, you must check the information on permission to use the material.
- Mighty Coach.com offers free, tutorials in PowerPoint basics as a come-on to purchase their on-line video training services.
The tutorials are transcripts from the videos and cover version 2002 (XP).
- Teachers who want to learn PowerPoint in order to use it in the classroom should check out the fun and colorful tutorial PowerPoint in the Classroom.
The lessons are produced by ActDen in cooperation with Microsoft, so you know they are accurate.
There are hints in every lesson for teaching students to use PowerPoint, and suggestions for integrating presentations into a curriculum.
- Also for teachers - college teachers - is the basic PowerPoint XP tutorial developed by the Center for Teaching and Learning with Technology at the University of Washington.
To help instructors do more than just add words to slides, CTLT also has an action plan to help you plan your presentation, and an article on teaching strategies using PowerPoint.
- Epson, the printer manufacturer, has a great tutorial site Epson Presenters Online that includes how to create effective presentations as well as how to use PowerPoint.
The PowerPoint lessons are for PowerPoint 2000, but for most of the basics, the steps can easily be translated to more recent versions.
- If you want to learn more about a specific aspect of PowerPoint, Indezine's PowerPoint section always has great, comprehensive tutorials.
Unfortunately, there is not an easily accessible index to find a listing of all of the tutorials.
- Russell Proctor maintains the Better Solutions Web site and an excellent set of PowerPoint tutorials organized by features, including clip-art, charts and graphs, tables, speaker's notes, and so on.
Every set of lessons has both basic and advanced topics. Most are step-by-step, while some are explanations of toolbars and menus.
Proctor also has tutorials on Excel and Word.
- Microsoft PowerPoint MVP, Sonia Coleman, has a series of tutorials focused on using multimedia on her Web site.
She includes downloadable versions of the comprehensive Microsoft PowerPoint and Multimedia tutorial written by MVP Austin Myers and distributed by the PowerPoint MVP team.
Next week, we'll look at the best of the PowerPoint forums, where you can ask other users questions for which you cannot find answers in the PowerPoint Help or the Microsoft support pages.
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