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The great sales of this version of the suite will lead to a huge market at the right audience level for the Complete Idiots Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint 2000. The customers who buy the various consumer level PCs with Office preloaded are the same customers who are looking for a friendly and fun way to learn from a book. The Complete Idiots Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 delivers on all of the promises of the successful Complete Idiots Guide series and gives the reader a good introduction to the features they need to learn in the newest version of PowerPoint to be productive with the software. In this new edition, there is a tighter focus on the way an average user uses the software - with increased coverage of practical tips i.e when or when not to use animation in your presentation.

Table of Contents:
Introduction. I. RUNNING START. 1. What the Heck Is PowerPoint Anyway? What Is a Presentation? What Is the Point in PowerPoint? Dont Let the Power Make You Forget the Point. 2. A Quick and Easy Presentation. Jump-starting PowerPoint. To Know the PowerPoint Window Is to Love the PowerPoint Window. Were Off to Use the Wizard! Even Weirdos Can Have a Normal View. Replacing Words with More Words. Presenting Your Presentation! Save the Show. Presentation Regeneration Information. 3. Help Is on the Way. The Authors Favorite Reference. Whats This Button? What Is "Whats This?". Your Onscreen, On-the-Spot Office Assistant. Contents and Index: A Whole Lot of Help. The World Wide Web Is a Huge Helpful Haven. PowerPoint 9-1-1. II. BUILDING YOUR PRESENTATION. 4. Sliding Slides into Place. Looking Slideways. Selecting Slides. Adding a Slide. Slide Deleting. Sliding a Slide Around. 5. The World of Words. Brave New Words for Brave New Slides. Reworking Your Words (or Rewording Your Work). Word-Dos: Styling Your Text. Speling Is Emportent. Alignment Assignment. Lust for Lists! 6. Layout: Not Just Something You Do in the Sun. Boxes in Slides? I Thought Slides Went in Boxes! Selecting and Moving Boxes. Resizing Boxes: When Size Matters. Time to Play Spin the Box! Boxes on Top of Boxes. Groups: Boxes Full o Boxes. 7. WordArt: Your Low-Calorie Logo-Making Friend. Instant Logo. WordArt Adjustments. Color Commentary: Filling in the Letters. Frilly Fills for Fabulous Fun. Outlinear Thinking. Who Knows What Shadows Lurk in the WordArts of Men? 3D or Not 3D, That Is the Question. Logo A-Go-Go. 8. Lines and Shapes: Good Things in Variable-Size Boxes. The Simple Shapes. Colors, Lines, Fills, Shadows, and Other Frilly Things. Fancy Shapes: They Arent Just for Marshmallows Anymore! More AutoShapes. Getting Your Text into Shape, Literally. Changing Shape: I Never Metamorph I Didnt Like. 9. Putting Pictures in Their Places. Where Do Pictures Come From? Getting the Picture: Get the Picture? The Picture Toolbar: A Row of Pictures for Working on Pictures. Framing Your Picture. Rotating Your Picture. Clip Art: Resizable, Reusable, but Not Refundable (`Cause Its Free!). 10. The Art of the Chart 101: Numerical Charts. The Part Where You Start the Chart. Entering Chart Information in Formation. Choosing a Chart Type: So Many Choices, So Many Wrong Ones. The Top-Five Chart-Busting Chart Features. A Fine-Tune on the Charts. Gettin Outta Here... and Gettin Back. 11. The Art of the Chart 102: Organization Charts. Charting the Path to Success. Frank Lloyd Chart: Fancier Structures. The Job Shuffle: Rearranging the Chart. You Have Got It Organized, Now Make It Pretty. Other Little Chart Tricks. Returning to Uncharted Territory. 12. Backing Up Your Words: Beautiful Backgrounds. The Lazy Way: Using a Pre-Made Design. Color My World, Differently! The Less-Lazy Way: Design Your Own Background and Slide Style. Slide Nonconformist: Making One Slide Different. Does "Footer" Mean Its More Foot Than Something Else? III. FANCY, FLASHY, FABULOUS FEATURES. 13. Click Here for Interactivity. You Can Click Anything! Clickless Actions. Missing Link: Getting Rid of an Interaction. Click Pick: Shaping Your Clickable Area. Links Within Text. These Buttons Were Made for Action. Action Master: Interactivity on Your Slide Master. 14. Look Up in the Sky!: Flying Text and Pictures. A Presentation with Animation Is Your Destination. The Quick Way: Animation for Lazy Folks. Animating for Control Freaks. 15. Tricky Transitions and Terrific Timing. Transitions: What They Are, Why You Want Them, and How You Get Them. Time for Timing! 16. Movies in PowerPoint: Like TV, Only Smaller. Some Warnings About Movies. Mommy, Where Do Movies Come From? Adding a Movie. Roll the Picture: Interactive Activation. Roll the Picture: Activation Automation. Movie by Design: Slides with Built-In Movie Space. 17. Sound Advice on Sound. Things to Spend Money On: Your PC Sound System. Recording: Yes, You Really Do Sound Like That. Slammin Down That Slide Sound. CD: OK 4 U! Narration: Sharing Your Snide Comments with the World. IV. SHARING THE PRESENTATION WITH OTHERS. 18. The Scene Is Seen on Your Screen. Speaker Mode: Full-Screen Show-Off. A Sly Innuendo... Er, a Slide in a Window. Kiosk: Accident-Proof, Idiot-Proof, Safety in a Can! Simple Show-Starting. 19. Sending the Presentation to Others. Preparing Postal-Possible Presentations. Pack It Up. Shoo! Send It Away Quickly. 20. Reaching a Crowd: Slides, Overheads, Projection Screens, and Network Presentations. Slides on Slides. Overheads Over Easy. Two Screens, or Not Two Screens. It Aint Cheap, but Heres How. Network Presentations: Avoiding Your Audience. A Tag-Team of Tools to Use with Two to Two Hundred Views. 21. Putting It on the Web. Why You Shouldnt Use PowerPoint to Build a Web Site. Presenting: Web-Presentable Presentations. Start That Web Magic! Simple Decisions for Complex Times. What Hath Thou Wrought? Looking at Your Web Presentation. 22. Printing Printouts and Handling Handouts. Quick Print. Printing PowerPoint Presentations Perfectly. Handouts That No Panhandler Would Want. V. GETTING THE MOST OUT OF POWERPOINT. 23. Office Gossip: Swapping Info with Other Office Products. Stealing Bits from Anywhere. Documents That Are Out of this Word! Word-ward Ho! Excel-erating Your Presentation. 24. Making Your Presentation a Doozy! (Not a Dontzy!). Can You See the Forest Through the Polychromatic Hyperlinked Trees? Watch Your Language. The Awful Eyeful: Slides That Are Hard to Look At. Controls: Dont Reinvent the Steering Wheel. Keep Your Content Interesting. If You Cant Please One Person, How Can You Please Them All? 25. Express to Impress: Delivering Good Oral Presentations. Rule 1: Dont Picture Your Audience Naked. Rule 2: Rehearse. Rule 3: Use Notes, but Dont Use a Script. Rule 4: Talk to Someone. Rule 5: Dont Always Talk to the Same Someone. Rule 6: Look at Each New Slide. Rule 7: Dont Talk to the Slide. Rule 8: Stop for Questions. Rule 9: It Can Be Very Easy to Use a Lot of Words... Rule 10: Know How Sophisticated Your Audience Is. Rule 11: Use Examples. Rule 12: Humor Can Be Amusing! Rule 13: Check Your Equipment Before the Presentation. Rule 14: Check Out the Room Ahead of Time. Rule 15: Introduce Yourself to Your Audience. Rule 16: Dont Just Read Whats On the Slide. Rule 17: Tell Them Where You are Going. Rule 18: Pronounce Clearly. Rule 19: Dress Cleanly. Rule 20: Dont Talk Down. Rule 21: Dont Take Too Long. Rule 22: Dont Worry About It! Appendix. Buttons and Menus and Mice, Oh My!: Working Wonders with Windows. A Mouse in the Hand. When You Need a Menu. Windows Dont Have to be a Pane! Lets Rap About Dialogue! Glossary: Speak Like a Geek. Index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780789718662
  • Publisher: Macmillan Computer Publishing (a Pearson Education company)
  • Publisher Imprint: Que
  • Height: 232 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 187 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0789718669
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 1999
  • Binding: Counterpack – filled
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: The complete idiot's guide
  • Weight: 568 gr


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