Laminated quick reference guide showing step-by-step instructions and shortcuts for how to use advanced features of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. The following topics are covered: Reusing Slides from Other, Presentations, Adding Placeholders to a Slide Master, Adding a Customized Layout, Switching from Color to Black & White, Making Changes to a Template, Using a Theme from Another Office Document, Inserting Tables, WordArt, The Selection and Visibility Pane, Ungrouping Clip Art, Recoloring Pictures, Placing an Excel Object on the Slide, Editing an Excel Object Hiding/Showing Slides, Creating a Button to Jump to Another Slide or File During a Slide Show, Adding Custom Animations, Modifying Previewing the Effect, Annotations during a Slide Show, Self Running Presentations, Setting Timings, Recording Narration, Creating a Photo Slide Show, Saving Different Slide Orders, Packaging Presentations on a CD, Packaging Multiple Presentations on a CD. This guide is suitable as a training handout, or simply an easy to use reference guide, for any type of user. This guide is one of two titles available for PowerPoint 2007: PowerPoint 2007 Introduction, PowerPoint 2007 Advanced.

This 6 page, tri-fold, full-color, guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who uses PowerPoint 2007! In a clear, user-friendly format, it provides step-by-step instructions, short cuts, and tips on how to execute the basic commands of the software. It includes how to customize the Quick Access toolbar and how to open and save a presentation. It covers working with slides including creating a new slide, changing the layout of a slide and changing slide properties. It also includes working with themes, creating text, and formatting text on a slide. It includes inserting illustrations, working with animation features, and inserting multimedia files. It covers how to work with slide shows and the many ways to output your presentation. It also includes a guide to keyboard shortcuts and getting help in PowerPoint. An excellent instructional tool for a user new to PowerPoint 2007, it also serves as a handy reference tool for the more experienced PowerPoint user.

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.

Microsoft PowerPoint is nearly ubiquitous in today's world--from business to schools to clubs to organizations, PowerPoint presentations are everywhere you turn. To get up and running quickly and to learn to create the best-looking presentations--the ones that stand out in terms of content and visual appeal--readers need Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. PowerPoint presenter extraordinaire Tom Negrino steps readers through the redesigned user interface and highlights the tools readers will use as they create their presentations. Trusted teacher Tom Negrino gives step-by-step instruction on using all the new features in PowerPoint 2007, such as using the dynamic SmartArt Diagrams, custom layouts, applying attractive new themes (change them in just one click!), and how to manipulate and work with your text, tables, charts, and other presentation elements in much richer ways than ever before. Readers learn about writing their presentation, gathering images and sound files, choosing a design, working with text, and adding graphics and slide effects and transitions. In the end, users will have a professional-looking and visually appealing presentation they can use anywhere! As with all Visual QuickSta rt Guide books, clear, concise instructions and lots of visual aids make learning easy and painless.

Laminated quick reference guide showing step-by-step instructions and shortcuts for how to use Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. The following topics are covered: Creating a New Presentation, Adding a New Slide, Changing a Slide's Layout and Orientation, Slide Size, Entering Text, Starting a Line without a Bullet, Adding Other Text on the Slide, Changing Level of Indention, Using Outline View, Rearranging Points. Text Formatting: Font, Size, Enhancements, Bullets, Formatting Text with the Mini Toolbar. Viewing Many Slides at Once, Rearranging Slides, Applying Design Themes, Changing Background of a Slide, Footers, Using the Slide Master, Suppressing Slide Master Elements on Certain Slides, Adding Clip Art and Other Graphics, Resizing Graphics. Creating Graphs, Creating Org Charts, Drawing Shapes, Resizing and Moving Shapes, Selecting Shapes, Duplicating Shapes, Speaker's Notes, Printing. Running a Slide Show, Transition, Timing, Animating an Object, Previewing Object and Page Animations, Changing Slide Show Settings. Also includes: Lists of Selection, Movement, and Slide Show Shortcuts.