This brief book focuses on creating dynamic presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. It goes beyond the traditional step-by-step manual by exploring specific design techniques that lead to superior PowerPoint presentations. Lessons and exercises are built around Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, to allow students the full benefit of the latest PowerPoint functionality and features, but will also include explanations compatible with PowerPoint '97.

This is the only book that will help an intermediate PowerPoint user improve their skills to an advanced level. In doing so, they can benefit both professionally and personally. This is not a comprehensive book that will bore you with every detail of PowerPoint, but a guide to specific actions you can take to create the ultimate presentation. The book covers the powerful formatting engine new to PowerPoint 2007, and how it can be used for applying soft shadows, reflection, and glows to make a presentation look attractive. It also covers PowerPoint's new 3D engine. The book goes into deep technical detail about the Office 2007 theme engine and how color schemes, effect schemes, and font schemes work; as well as the new PowerPoint XML file format, showing you how to edit PowerPoint files without using PowerPoint at all. The authors walk through programming a macro and explain how to format shapes, diagrams, charts, text, tables with gradient and picture fills and different kinds of lines (e.g. a beveled compound line with a diamond arrowhead). Also covered are those all important slide show shortcuts that few people know about like -- seeing your private notes while presenting on a projector, starting the slide show from the current slide without fumbling through the user interface, and how to black out the slide show screen with one key press.

Written by an experienced trainer, this guide gives insight on the best ways to perform tasks as well as nontraditional uses of PowerPoint.

A guide to the business presentation software explains how to combine text, animation, video, photographs, sound effects, and narration into a professional-looking presentation.

& PowerPoint 2003 provides powerful new tools with which to create presentations more easily, illustrate ideas more powerfully, and share it all in any setting, from meeting rooms to the Web. & & Based on a proven, successful series format, this book uses a visual page design with easy-to-read text to teach beginning to intermediate level PowerPoint tasks. & & Troubleshooting guides, & "see also & " referencing, sample projects, and MOS objectives add even more for the ambitious learner. & & Author Steve Johnson is a professional trainer and author of several best-selling books.

A guide to the business presentation software explains how to combine text, animation, video, photographs, sound effects, and narration into a professional-looking presentation.

Brace youself, because here comes QuickSteps: The fast, easy, accessible information on PowerPoint 2003 in a full-color cookbook-style format. Provides answers to all of your How-do-I questions in a concise and meaningful way. Lengthwise page layout allows for easy page viewing. Useful tips and cautions are displayed in the margins so that they don’t break the flow of the quick steps themselves.