This hands-on text offers students a step-by-step approach to PowerPoint presentations. With an emphasis on real-world situations, this text is designed for an office professional.

Napier and Judd train students to become office professionals by bringing their experience as educators and corporate trainers to their latest text on Excel 97.

Afraid of speaking with confidence? Do not know how to present a presentation? How to captivate your audience with dazzling slide presentation? If you are unable or not confident enough to answer the above questions, here is the book for you. This book was specially written to those out there who will be making some sort of presentation to their peers, colleagues, employers, or to the general public but lack the “know-how”. The book starts off by introducing some general rules and ideas on public speaking and moves on to creating creative and dazzling slide presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. Many tips, shortcuts, and other pointers on maximizing PowerPoint are highlighted too. While many books have been written on Microsoft PowerPoint, this book attempts to blend PowerPoint with how the presenter will make his presentations to the public. Of course, as in any book, you should have some basic understanding of what PowerPoint is and how it works. All of the examples in this book are illustrated with the appropriate screen captures to simplify the learning curve.

Napier and Judd are educators and corporate trainers with one foot in education and the other in employment. This text will prepare your students with skills they need to get a job.

Learn the Secrets Needed to Master PowerPoint for Training As a successful facilitator, you know the importance of the resources in your professional toolkit. How you engage your audience and improve learning can be affected by how well you use them. But mastery of PowerPoint evades many. Feedback on presentations can range from “What was the point?” to “That changed my life.” Most, though, fall closer to the former. If you are looking for a guide to the PowerPoint practices that will push your presentations into the latter category, look no further. A Trainer's Guide to PowerPoint: Best Practices for Master Presenters is Mike Parkinson's master class on the art of PowerPoint. While Parkinson wants you to understand how amazing a tool PowerPoint is, he's the first to tell you that there is no magic button to make awesome slides. There are, however, proven processes and tools that deliver successful PowerPoint content each and every time you use them. In this book he shares them, detailing his award-winning PowerPoint process and guiding you through three phases of presentation development—discover, design, and deliver. What's more, Parkinson is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP—most valuable professional—an honorific bestowed by Microsoft on those with “very deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services.” He shares not only his tips and best practices for presentation success, but also those from several of his fellow MVPs. Parkinson invites you to master PowerPoint as a tool—just like a paintbrush and paint—and to realize that the tool doesn't make the art, you do.