Product Description: Experience learning made easy and quickly teach yourself how to create professional-quality presentations using Microsoft(r) PowerPoint(r) Version 2002. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instructio building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Turn your ideas into powerful presentations using ready-made design templates and Smart Tags Make your point with compelling charts, diagrams, graphics, and text you create or import in a snap Add narration, animation, 3-D effects, and movies and create self-running slide shows E-mail your work-in-progress to colleagues for review and collaboration Deliver your presentation anywhere from a meeting room to the Web Prepare for the Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) exam
Helpful Purchased this to help teach myself Powerpoint. It is nice to go at my own pace. Very helpful book.
Quality Step by Step Guide If you are using a 2002 Version of Powerpoint, this program is right on. I've also found that the later versions are so similar that you can use this book for those as well. My only caution in terms of version is to NOT buy this book for pre-2000 versions, because the program lacks a lot of the more advanced features that this book teaches you.
This book offers a great table of contents, allowing you to find the information you are looking for. It also goes VERY slowly in the early steps to allow you to follow, and uses screenshots as support. This book covers everything from opening a new powerpoint file, to adding advanced animations, sound, pictures, videos, and the like. I used this book to help me with graduate school final project and it helped me to add those features that made my presentation stand out.
If you are new to powerpoint, I would highly reccommend this book. It will make your life a lot easier!!
Barely Adequate I purchased this book based on the reviews and am disappointed in it. Yes, it does show you exactly what to do but the examples are disjointed. Instead of actually working on a project, you make absolutely minute changes to a pre-existing file. In fact, in one section the authors have you open a blank presentation and save it without having typed a thing!
I thought that maybe each chapter or maybe the whole book would be devoted to creating a project and that the CD would have the supporting files. I had not anticipated that each section of the book would have its own file and so you never build on what you had done in the previous section.
I had used a book on MS Publisher that did just that - you created a project and the authors provided the supporting text and graphics but you actually made something.
Perhaps the book will improve as I am only on chapter 4 but I'm not real hopeful.
Great For Getting Started With PowerPoint! Before starting grad school earlier this year I had never had any reason to know how to use PowerPoint, but when the time came to learn, I had to get with it fast. The directions that come with the stand alone Microsoft product are pretty weak, so I bought this manual as the best for comprehensiveness and being comprehendible by an average MS Word user.
This book is not for the super technical, programmer types, but works great for the other 95% of us. I like that it is in color, and steps you through commands EXACTLY as they will appear onscreen. I have been able to do anything I have needed to do, and still frequently use this book as a reference. Earlier in the week I consulted it about putting video into a slide, which I had never done before. Now I have a very dramatic multimedia presentation that looks great.
The salient point here is that I am not a huge PowerPoint expert, but this book makes me look like one. I gave it four stars only because it is a quite expensive book (remember it has all pages printed in color, and has a practice CD included), in fact twice the cost of many competing books. Although it is pricey, in the long run it is totally worth the expense.
Good for the average Joe I bought this series of books for the people at the office. They are easy to understand and pretty much anyone learnt something new. This book is not for computer geeks.. Too basic for you...
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