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PowerPoint 2003 Personal Trainer Become a PowerPoint Superhero

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ISBN-10: 0596008554

ISBN-13: 9780596008550

Edition: 2005

Authors: CustomGuide Inc.

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

CustomGuide, Inc. is 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, software bulletins and e-learning courses that are fun, flexible, and easy to use. They must be onto something, because CustomGuide has quickly become a leading provider of computer training materials. Although CustomGuide has grown, the founders continue to have the same vision, drive, and commitment.

Introduction
The Fundamentals
Starting PowerPoint
What's New in PowerPoint 2003?
Understanding the PowerPoint Program Screen
Using Menus
Using Toolbars and Creating a New Presentation
Filling Out Dialog Boxes
Keystroke and Right Mouse Button Shortcuts
Opening a Presentation
Saving and Closing a Presentation and Exiting PowerPoint
Creating a New Presentation with the AutoContent Wizard
Creating a Blank Presentation and a Presentation from a Template
Moving Around in Your Presentations
Viewing Your Presentation
Printing Your Presentation
Getting Help
Changing the Office Assistant and Using the "What's This" Button
Chapter One Review
Editing a Presentation
Inserting Slides and Text
Using the Outline Pane
Editing Text
Selecting, Replacing, and Deleting Text
Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
Using Undo, Redo, and Repeat
Checking Your Spelling
Finding and Replacing Information
Viewing a Presentation's Outline
Rearranging a Presentation's Outline
Inserting Symbols and Special Characters
Working in Slid Sorter View
Adding Notes to Your Slides
Working with Multiple Windows
Collecting and Pasting Multiple Items
File Management
Understanding Smart Tags
Recovering Your Presentations
Chapter Two Review
Formatting Your Presentation
Formatting Fonts with the Formatting Toolbar
Advanced Font Formatting with the Font Dialog Box
Using the Format Painter
Applying a Template's Formatting
Using the Slide Master
Choosing a Color Scheme
Changing the Background of Your Slides
Working with Bulleted and Numbered Lists
Changing Paragraph Alignment and Line Spacing
Adding Headers and Footers
Working with Tabs and Indents
Changing the Page Setup
Chapter Three Review
Drawing and Working with Graphics
Drawing on Your Slides
Adding, Arranging, and Formatting Text Boxes
Selecting, Resizing, Moving, and Deleting Objects
Formatting Objects
Inserting Clip Art
Inserting and Formatting Pictures
Aligning and Grouping Objects
Drawing AutoShapes
Flipping and Rotating Objects
Layering Objects
Applying Shadows and 3-D Effects
Chapter Four Review
Working with Tables and WordArt
Creating a Table
Working with a Table
Adjusting Column Width and Row Height
Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns
Adding Borders to a Table
Adding Shading and Fills
Inserting a WordArt Object
Formatting a WordArt Object
Chapter Five Review
Working with Graphs and Organization Charts
Creating a Chart
Modifying a Chart
Selecting a Chart Type
Creating an Organization Chart
Modifying Your Organization Chart
Formatting Your Organization Chart
Chapter Six Review
Delivering Your Presentation
Delivering a Presentation on a Computer
Using Slide Transitions
Using an Animation Scheme
Using Custom Animations
Rehearsing Slide Show Timings
Creating a Presentation that Runs by Itself
Creating a Custom Show
Packaging and Copying a Presentation to CD
Viewing a Packaged Presentation
Chapter Seven Review
Working with Multimedia
Inserting Sounds
Adding Voice Narration to Your Slides
Inserting a Movie Clip
Automating the Multimedia in Your Presentation
Chapter Eight Review
Working with Other Programs and the Internet
Inserting a Slide into a Microsoft Word Document
Embedding a Microsoft Excel Worksheet into a Slide
Modifying an Embedded Object
Inserting a Linked Excel Chart
Importing and Exporting an Outline
Using Hyperlinks
Using Action Buttons
Saving a Presentation as a Web Page
Viewing a Web-Based Presentation
Chapter Nine Review
Advanced Topics
Hiding, Displaying, and Moving Toolbars
Customizing PowerPoint's Toolbars
Sending Faxes
Adding Comments to a Slide
Customizing PowerPoint's Default Options
File Properties and Finding a File
Recording a Macro
Playing and Editing a Macro
Chapter Ten Review
Index