PowerPoint Personal Trainer

Description:

PowerPoint is the world's most widely used presentation program, a favorite of educators, trainers, and, of course, those in business everywhere. Yet, every time Microsoft releases a new version of the program, they introduce another set of features---most of which you'll never understand or use. Even if you have experience with PowerPoint, you'll struggle to keep up with the improvements. If you're a beginner, you probably don't know where to start.

Now, with PowerPoint 2003 Personal Trainer, beginners and experts alike can become black belts with this presentation program, quickly and easily. This fully illustrated book takes a modular approach to learning, allowing you to start with the fundamentals and work your way to advance topics through dozens of task-oriented lessons--at your own pace. The companion CD tutorial guides you through each lesson interactively.

PowerPoint 2003 Personal Trainer includes sections on editing, formatting, drawing, working with word art, tables, organization charts, multimedia, other programs, the Internet, and how to optimize presentation delivery. Every chapter includes detailed diagrams and a review at the end to help you absorb and retain all you have learned.

If you already use PowerPoint, you can dive right into those topics (and only those topics) that you need or want to learn. Unlike many consumer software tutorials that dumb down the material or present it in a confusing fashion, PowerPoint 2003 Personal Trainer is written in a non-technical and engaging style that you will find fun, easy, and most of all, clear and informative. You don't have to wade through tons of jargon and technical information to become proficient.

Part of our new Personal Trainer Series, this book is based on content from CustomGuide (www.customguide.com), a leading provider of computer training materials. Founded by instructors who grew dissatisfied with the industry's dry course materials, CustomGuide offers courseware (for instructors and students), quick references, to software bulletins and e-learning courses that are fun, flexible, and easy to use.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Fundamentals
Lesson 1.1
      Starting PowerPoint
Lesson 1.2
      What's New in PowerPoint 2003?
Lesson 1.3
      Understanding the PowerPoint Program Screen
Lesson 1.4
      Using Menus
Lesson 1.5
      Using Toolbars and Creating a New Presentation
Lesson 1.6
      Filling Out Dialog Boxes
Lesson 1.7
      Keystroke and Right Mouse Button Shortcuts
Lesson 1.8
      Opening a Presentation
Lesson 1.9
      Saving and Closing a Presentation and Exiting PowerPoint
Lesson 1.10
      Creating a New Presentation with the AutoContent Wizard
Lesson 1.11
      Creating a Blank Presentation and a Presentation from a Template
Lesson 1.12
      Moving Around in Your Presentations
Lesson 1.13
      Viewing Your Presentation
Lesson 1.14
      Printing Your Presentation
Lesson 1.15
      Getting Help
Lesson 1.16
      Changing the Office Assistant and Using the "What's This" Button
      Chapter One Review
Chapter 2. Editing a Presentation
Lesson 2.1
      Inserting Slides and Text
Lesson 2.2
      Using the Outline Pane
Lesson 2.3
      Editing Text
Lesson 2.4
      Selecting, Replacing, and Deleting Text
Lesson 2.5
      Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
Lesson 2.6
      Using Undo, Redo, and Repeat
Lesson 2.7
      Checking Your Spelling
Lesson 2.8
      Finding and Replacing Information
Lesson 2.9
      Viewing a Presentation's Outline
Lesson 2.10
      Rearranging a Presentation's Outline
Lesson 2.11
      Inserting Symbols and Special Characters
Lesson 2.12
      Working in Slide Sorter View
Lesson 2.13
      Adding Notes to Your Slides
Lesson 2.14
      Working with Multiple Windows
Lesson 2.15
      Collecting and Pasting Multiple Items
Lesson 2.16
      File Management
Lesson 2.17
      Understanding Smart Tags
Lesson 2.18
      Recovering Your Presentations
      Chapter Two Review
Chapter 3. Formatting Your Presentation
Lesson 3.1
      Formatting Fonts with the Formatting Toolbar
Lesson 3.2
      Advanced Font Formatting with the Font Dialog Box
Lesson 3.3
      Using the Format Painter
Lesson 3.4
      Applying a Template's Formatting
Lesson 3.5
      Using the Slide Master
Lesson 3.6
      Choosing a Color Scheme
Lesson 3.7
      Changing the Background of Your Slides
Lesson 3.8
      Working with Bulleted and Numbered Lists
Lesson 3.9
      Changing Paragraph Alignment and Line Spacing
Lesson 3.10
      Adding Headers and Footers
Lesson 3.11
      Working with Tabs and Indents
Lesson 3.12
      Changing the Page Setup
      Chapter Three Review
Chapter 4. Drawing and Working with Graphics
Lesson 4.1
      Drawing on Your Slides
Lesson 4.2
      Adding, Arranging, and Formatting Text Boxes
Lesson 4.3
      Selecting, Resizing, Moving, and Deleting Objects
Lesson 4.4
      Formatting Objects
Lesson 4.5
      Inserting Clip Art
Lesson 4.6
      Inserting and Formatting Pictures
Lesson 4.7
      Aligning and Grouping Objects
Lesson 4.8
      Drawing AutoShapes
Lesson 4.9
      Flipping and Rotating Objects
Lesson 4.10
      Layering Objects
Lesson 4.11
      Applying Shadows and 3-D Effects
      Chapter Four Review
Chapter 5. Working with Tables and WordArt
Lesson 5.1
      Creating a Table
Lesson 5.2
      Working with a Table
Lesson 5.3
      Adjusting Column Width and Row Height
Lesson 5.4
      Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
Lesson 5.5
      Adding Borders to a Table
Lesson 5.6
      Adding Shading and Fills
Lesson 5.7
      Inserting a WordArt Object
Lesson 5.8
      Formatting a WordArt Object
      Chapter Five Review
Chapter 6. Working with Graphs and Organization Charts
Lesson 6.1
      Creating a Chart
Lesson 6.2
      Modifying a Chart
Lesson 6.3
      Selecting a Chart Type
Lesson 6.4
      Creating an Organization Chart
Lesson 6.5
      Modifying Your Organization Chart
Lesson 6.6
      Formatting Your Organization Chart
      Chapter Six Review
Chapter 7. Delivering Your Presentation
Lesson 7.1
      Delivering a Presentation on a Computer
Lesson 7.2
      Using Slide Transitions
Lesson 7.3
      Using an Animation Scheme
Lesson 7.4
      Using Custom Animations
Lesson 7.5
      Rehearsing Slide Show Timings
Lesson 7.6
      Creating a Presentation that Runs by Itself
Lesson 7.7
      Creating a Custom Show
Lesson 7.8
      Packaging and Copying a Presentation to CD
Lesson 7.9
      Viewing a Packaged Presentation
      Chapter Seven Review
Chapter 8. Working with Multimedia
Lesson 8.1
      Inserting Sounds
Lesson 8.2
      Adding Voice Narration to Your Slides
Lesson 8.3
      Inserting a Movie Clip
Lesson 8.4
      Automating the Multimedia in Your Presentation
      Chapter Eight Review
Chapter 9. Working with Other Programs and the Internet
Lesson 9.1
      Inserting a Slide into a Microsoft Word Document
Lesson 9.2
      Embedding a Microsoft Excel Worksheet into a Slide
Lesson 9.3
      Modifying an Embedded Object
Lesson 9.4
      Inserting a Linked Excel Chart
Lesson 9.5
      Importing and Exporting an Outline
Lesson 9.6
      Using Hyperlinks
Lesson 9.7
      Using Action Buttons
Lesson 9.8
      Saving a Presentation as a Web Page
Lesson 9.9
      Viewing a Web-Based Presentation
      Chapter Nine Review
Chapter 10. Advanced Topics
Lesson 10.1
      Hiding, Displaying, and Moving Toolbars
Lesson 10.2
      Customizing PowerPoint's Toolbars
Lesson 10.3
      Sending Faxes
Lesson 10.4
      Adding Comments to a Slide
Lesson 10.5
      Customizing PowerPoint's Default Options
Lesson 10.6
      File Properties and Finding a File
Lesson 10.7
      Recording a Macro
Lesson 10.8
      Playing and Editing a Macro
      Chapter Ten Review
Index