Powerpoint.2003.Just.The.Steps.2006

Why You Need This Book

Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 is one of those programs that many people need and use, but they often know just enough to get by. What happens when you want to implement something you haven’t used before, like hyperlinks or sound? Most programs today don’t come with written documentation anymore. You’ll probably have to search through skimpy online Help files or, worse, wade through lots of tedious narrative text in a gigantic reference manual to find the help you need.

This book eliminates background descriptions and detailed explanations and takes you directly to a series of steps to pro¬duce precisely what you want to do with a presentation. If you want it simple, fast, and direct, then this is the book for you.

How This Book Is Organized

This book is organized into four parts. The following sections introduce each one.

Part I: Creating a Presentation

If you are fairly new to PowerPoint, the chapters in this part get you up and running. First, you find out how to create a presentation. After your presentation is started, we show you how to add content from scratch, from Word, and from exist¬ing presentations. You then find the necessary steps on how to edit and format your content to get just the look you want. We finish this part by giving you information on working with the various types of masters in PowerPoint.

Part II: Adding Visual Interest to Slides

After you have a basic presentation, you may want to add ele¬ments to increase visual interest. These comprehensive chapters show you how to do just that. You find out how to add and edit simple graphics like shapes, lines, and arrows. You then find steps on how to add shadows and 3-D effects to those shapes and also to text. If that isn’t enough, you discover how to jazz up your text by using the WordArt feature. We also give you all the steps you need to know on how to apply color, texture, and pattern to your slide elements. Pictures score big with added visual punch. We show you how to bring in both clip art and photos to your presentations. Finally we round out this part by giving you all you need to create and fully edit tables, graphs, organizational charts, and diagrams.

Part III: Adding a Dash of Pizzazz with Multimedia

If text, shapes, and pictures aren’t enough for you, you may want to explore using sound, movies, and animation in your presentations. It isn’t nearly as complicated as you might think. We give you the steps to insert sound and movie files from various sources. You also find out how to use hyperlinks to jump to other slides and presentations or to a Web site. To make your presentation flow smoothly, we show you how to implement transitions between your slides. And lastly, to make your presentation really come alive, you find steps on animating slides, objects, and text.

Part IV: Presenting Effectively

When your presentation is ready, we show you how to pre¬pare and share it with the world. You find important infor-mation on setting up your show options for optimum performance. We give you the steps on printing your slides, handouts, and notes for your audience. You find out how to package your presentation on CD and how to hold an online presentation meeting. Finally, you discover how to give a presentation live, via a kiosk, or over the Web.
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