The PowerPoint and Presentation Basics courseware is designed for new users of PowerPoint in Office 2003. You will learn to create new, blank presentations using PowerPoint, apply design templates, add transitions and work with animation schemes for individual slides. You will learn to use text and content placeholders as a component of slide layouts and to add your own text boxes and graphic objects to slides. You will add clipart and digital pictures and format a digital picture as a slide background. The course ends with presentation techniques including transitions, animation, custom animation, automatic slide shows and audience handouts.