PowerPoint 2007 References
Only a few years ago, PowerPoint was a novelty. All of a sudden, speakers started giving PowerPoint presentations at conferences and seminars. Audiences welcomed PowerPoint. The slides made presentations more interesting and lively. You could gaze at the slides while you listened to the speaker. Speakers — especially speakers who weren’t comfortable talking before an audience — liked PowerPoint, too. PowerPoint took away some of the burdens of public speaking. The program made it easier to speak in front of strangers.
PowerPoint became a staple of conferences, seminars, and corporate board-rooms. Then the novelty wore off, and audiences started grumbling. Thepresentations were too much alike. You saw bulleted list after bulleted list.Presentations followed the same tired formula — introductory slides fol-lowed by “key point” slides following by a tidy conclusion. Writing in theNew Yorker, Ian Parker declared that PowerPoint is “a social instrument, turning middle managers into bullet-point dandies.” Edward Tufte, professor of information design at Yale University, lamented the program’s “charjunk”and “PowerPointPhluff.” In a Wired essay called “PowerPoint Is Evil,” he wrote,“PowerPoint style routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content.”
Despite these complaints, speakers have not abandoned PowerPoint, and audiences still welcome it. But expectations have risen. Audiences expect the presenter to use PowerPoint skillfully and creatively. The audience knows when a presenter is just going through the motions and when a presenter is using PowerPoint to explore a subject and show it in a new light.
This book was written with the goal of showing you how to use the Power-Point software, but also how to use it with skill and imagination. It tells you which buttons to click to complete tasks, but also show you how Power-Point can be a means of communicating and connecting with your audience. It shows you how to build a persuasive presentation, one that brings the audience around to your side. No matter how much experience you have with PowerPoint, this book will make you a better, more proficient, more confident user of the program.
Contents at a Glance
Introduction
Book I: Getting Started in PowerPoint
Chapter 1: Introducing PowerPoint
Chapter 2: PowerPoint Nuts and Bolts
Chapter 3: Finding Your Way around the PowerPoint Screen
Chapter 4: Planning Ahead for a Solid Presentation
Book III: Communicating with Tables, Charts,and Diagrams
Chapter 1: Constructing the Perfect Table
Chapter 2: Putting a Chart on a Slide
Chapter 3: Putting Diagrams on Slides
Book IV: Embellishing Your Slides with Graphics and Shapes
Chapter 1: Drawing Shapes, Lines, and Other Objects
Chapter 2: Managing and Manipulating Objects
Chapter 3: Decorating Slides with Graphics and Photographs
Chapter 4: Decorating Slides with Clip Art
Book V: Flash and Dash
Chapter 1: Taking Advantage of Transitions and Animations
Chapter 2: Making Video Slides
Chapter 3: Making Sound and Music a Part of a Presentation
Book VI: Giving a Presentation
Chapter 1: Giving an In-Person Presentation
Chapter 2: Speaker Notes and Handouts
Chapter 3: Creating a Self-Running Presentation
Chapter 4: Creating a User-Run Presentation
Chapter 5: Alternative Ways to Distribute Presentations
Book VII: PowerPoint for Power Users
Chapter 1: Customizing PowerPoint
Chapter 2: Creating a Presentation Design for Your Company
Chapter 3: Collaborating with Others on a Presentation
Chapter 4: Linking and Embedding for Compound Presentations
Chapter 5: Automating Tasks with Macros
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