FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.

About PowerPoint 2000Traditionally, presenters have had to travel to reach audiences in different parts of the world. With today's technologies, this is no longer necessary. Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, presenters can now easily and inexpensively collaborate on presentations and show them to remote audiences without leaving their offices. PowerPoint 2000 offers new ease-of-use features that speed users through presentation development and help users deliver Web-based presentations to remote audiences. Let this NEW Made Simple book guide you through the new features of PowerPoint 2000 and help you make the most of the product.

This handy textbook covers all you need to know to get started using Powerpoint for presentations. Learning Made Simple books give you skills without frills. They are matched to the main qualifications, and written by experienced teachers and authors to make often tricky subjects simple to learn. Every book is designed carefully to provide bite-sized lessons matched to your needs. Learning Made Simple titles provide both a new colourful way to study and a useful adjunct to any training course. Using full colour throughout, and written by leading teachers and writers, Learning Made Simple books will help readers learn new skills and develop their talents. Whether studying at college, training at work, or reading at home, aiming for a qualification or simply getting up to speed, Learning Made Simple books will give you the advantage of easy, well-organised training materials in a handy volume with two or four-page sections for each topic for ease of use.

Say GOODBYE to boring old “A is for Apple” books and say HELLO to the exciting, playful world of “My Buddy Knows Letters” by Keith Wheeler. In book 1, My Buddy Knows Letters, children are introduced to our buddy, Josh. This blue-haired, sharp-dressed character will introduce the reader to an item with the catchphrase, “My Buddy Knows”, then a picture of the item, followed by “starts with…”. The reader then decides what letter that item starts with. Once they think they know the answer, they can flip the page and see if they’re right. My Buddy Knows the answers…Do you?

Sometimes when things get really bad, surgery is required. Bad Powerpoint* (and boring presentations) are everywhere! it appears that they have almost become the norm and very few people seem to want to talk about it. It doesn’t have to be that way. Bad presentations are costly. They can cost money, jobs and reputations, don’t let your slides ruin your pitch. In this funny, cut-to-the-chase and down-to-earth book professional speaker Lee Jackson will wean you, and your workplace off bad slides forever. He’ll also teach you how good presentation slides can work for you and help you stand out from the crowd. Using these simple techniques we can kill death by bullet-point once and for all. JOIN THE FIGHT TODAY! (N.B. This book is a colour paperback and illustrated with full colour slides.) “ Lee takes a clever and refreshing approach to presentation mastery. ” Nancy Duarte – author of ‘Slide:ology’, ‘Resonate’ and principal of Duarte (creators of the slides/visuals for Academy Award-winning film, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’) “ Powerpoint Surgery is an invaluable resource...and I highly recommend it... ” Jeremy Waite – Head of Social Strategy, Adobe EMEA “ Lee Jackson takes PowerPoint presentations from boring to brilliant. ” Alan Stevens FPSA – Past President Global Speakers Federation and co-author of ‘The Exceptional Speaker “ ...a masterclass of creating sublime slides & presentations, but be warned, you may never be able to sit through a presentation again without thinking of Lee Jackson! ” Geoff Ramm – President 2013 Professional Speaking Association UK and Ireland “Jackson has got a bl***y nerve asking me to write a testimonial for his book. You see, I am a proudly militant Anti-PowerPoint Bigot, but somehow, he has turned the Indefensible into the Indispensable! ” Graham Davies – best selling author of ‘The Presentation Coach’

There are a lot of things that you might be needing this app for and thus it would be great if you can make sure that you are going to be able to make the most out of it. However, this can be a great question especially when you are not familiar with the features that the Microsoft PowerPoint has in store for you. Do you have a near presentation, and you need to do a slideshow that would be very needed and precise? Do you want to wow your audience and make sure that they do not forget you? Do you want to make sure that you would be able to make the most out of everything that the app has to offer to you? This book will be all about Microsoft PowerPoint. It will help you learn more about the different features that the app has to offer to you so that you can make use of it to be able to enjoy the time you are going to be able to use it for as well. Learn more about it and how you can make the most out of it for your benefit.