Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentations software program. It is designed to create presentation materials such as on-screen shows, 35mm slides, or transparencies. It can also be used to create large format posters often presented at scientific meetings. It is NOT designed to be used to create newsletters, brochures, reports, term papers, or such things that would be better created in a Word processing program.

These lessons will guide you through some basic and advanced features of PowerPoint. We will cover features found in PC versions of PowerPoint 97 and 2000 and also the changes that occured in PPT 2002 XP version. If you have another version or work on a Mac, these lessons are still applicable. However some of the commands may be different or appear in different places in your program.

Your goal upon completing these lessons is to have a working knowledge of the program and be able to create presentations and posters for your scientific needs.

To use these lessons, you can go back and forth between your PowerPoint program and the web browser you are viewing the lessons on or you can print these lessons and work from them. Do whatever works best for you.

Lesson 1

Lesson 1 - PPT 2002 Updates

Last updated January 2002. These courses are copyrighted by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Communications and Information Technology. Contact Lana Johnson at ljohnson1@unl.edu