Make an impact on your audience with PowerPoint 2007
To deliver a compelling presentation to your audience, you need to get the most out of PowerPoint's powerful features. In this comprehensive guide to PowerPoint 2007, experienced author and trainer Faithe Wempen shows you how to do both. You'll get up to speed on PowerPoint's new interface and the Ribbon--while you also find out what contributes to a good presentation, such as choosing the right amount and style of information for your audience.
* Format with Layouts, Themes, and Master slides
* Integrate drawings, charts, or data from a variety of sources
* Get beyond bullet points and reading slides full of text and learn to engage your audience during your presentation
* Add sound effects, music, animation, and video
* Present from multiple monitors and separate computers
* Design interactive or self-running kiosk shows
Use SmartArt to quickly turn plain text into graphics
Create professional-looking charts with a few mouse clicks
Use any shape as a photo frame, and use WordArt for text effects
What's on the CD-ROM?
You'll find more than 500 professionally designed PowerPoint templates and backgrounds that you can use in your own PowerPoint presentations.
Please see Appendix C for details.
Also in the Book
Four special project labs highlight complete presentations that show a variety of ways to create content.
* Presenting Content Without Bulleted Lists
* Creating the Illusion of Movement with Static Graphics
* Designing a Menu-Based Navigational System
* Creating a Classroom Game
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Faithe Wempen, M.A., is an A+ Certified hardware guru, Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor, and software consultant with over 90 computer books to her credit. She has taught Microsoft Office applications, including PowerPoint, to over a quarter of a million online students for corporate clients including Hewlett Packard, CNET, Sony, Gateway, and eMachines. When she is not writing, she teaches Microsoft Office classes in the Computer Technology department at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), does private computer training and support consulting, and owns and operates Sycamore Knoll Bed and Breakfast in Noblesville, Indiana (www.sycamoreknoll.com).
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Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Building Your Presentation.
Chapter 1: A First Look at PowerPoint.
Chapter 2: What Makes a Great Presentation?
Chapter 3: Creating and Saving Presentation Files.
Chapter 4: Creating Slides and Text Boxes.
Chapter 5: Working with Layouts, Themes, and Masters.
Chapter 6: Formatting Text.
Chapter 7: Formatting Paragraphs and Text Boxes.
Chapter 8: Correcting and Improving Text.
Chapter 9: Creating and Formatting Tables.
Part II: Using Graphics and Multimedia Content.
Chapter 10: Drawing and Formatting Objects.
Chapter 11: Creating SmartArt Diagrams.
Chapter 12: Using and Organizing Clip Art.
Chapter 13: Working with Photographic Images.
Chapter 14: Working with Charts.
Chapter 15: Incorporating Data from Other Programs.
Chapter 16: Adding Sound Effects, Music, and Soundtracks.
Chapter 17: Incorporating Motion Video.
Chapter 18: Creating Animation Effects and Transitions.
Part III: Interfacing with Your Audience.
Chapter 19: Creating Support Materials.
Chapter 20: Preparing for a Live Presentation.
Chapter 21: Designing User-Interactive or Self-Running Presentations.
Chapter 22: Preparing a Presentation for Mass Distribution.
Chapter 23: Sharing and Collaborating.
Part IV: Project Labs.
Lab 1: Presenting Content Without Bulleted Lists.
Lab 2: Project Lab: Adding Sound and Movement to a Presentation.
Lab 3: Creating a Menu-Based Navigation System.
Lab 4: Creating a Classroom Game.
Part V: Appendixes.
Appendix A: Feature Finder: 2003 to 2007.
Appendix B: Customizing PowerPoint.
Appendix C: What's on the CD-ROM.
Index.
