Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual QuickStart Guides)

Microsoft PowerPoint is nearly ubiquitous in today's world--from business to schools to clubs to organizations, PowerPoint presentations are everywhere you turn. To get up and running quickly and to learn to create the best-looking presentations--the ones that stand out in terms of content and visual appeal--readers need Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. PowerPoint presenter extraordinaire Tom Negrino steps readers through the redesigned user interface and highlights the tools readers will use as they create their presentations. Trusted teacher Tom Negrino gives step-by-step instruction on using all the new features in PowerPoint 2007, such as using the dynamic SmartArt Diagrams, custom layouts, applying attractive new themes (change them in just one click!), and how to manipulate and work with your text, tables, charts, and other presentation elements in much richer ways than ever before. Readers learn about writing their presentation, gathering images and sound files, choosing a design, working with text, and adding graphics and slide effects and transitions. In the end, users will have a professional-looking and visually appealing presentation they can use anywhere! As with all Visual QuickStart Guide books, clear, concise instructions and lots of visual aids make learning easy and painless.

This visual, task-based reference book covers Microsoft PowerPoint. It uses hundreds of screenshots and concise, step-by-step how-tos to teach readers how to create and design dynamic PowerPoint presentations. The Visual thumb tabs and task-based format should make it easy to use.

Whether you love it or hate it, Microsoft PowerPoint¿the application most professionals turn to for creating easy and polished presentations¿is here to stay. And the new version of PowerPoint boasts improved collaboration and data management tools designed to make you even more productive. If you¿re looking to get quickly acquainted with all of the latest version¿s new bells and whistles, you need PowerPoint 2003 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, the quickest, easiest way to learn how to add slides, movie clips, sound, animation¿even Web pages¿to presentations using this robust package. Thanks to the book's straightforward, task-based format, you can go directly to the information you need. PowerPoint 2003 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide uses hundreds of screenshots and step-by-step instructions to explain just what you need to know to get started with PowerPoint. Whether you use it as a tutorial or a reference guide, you'll be putting together impressive presentations with professional-looking transitions and effects in no time.

Rebecca Altman is a corporate trainer, courseware developer, and technical writer. She is the author of Peachpit¿s PowerPoint 2002/2001 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide and many other computer books. Rebecca has also written user¿s guides for personal computers and has developed content for PowerPoint training videos. Rick Altman has been writing, consulting, and lecturing on electronic publishing and digital design since 1986. He is the author of six editions of Mastering CorelDRAW and is currently preparing to host the debut PowerPoint Live conference in 2003.