Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

by Online Training Solutions Inc. (Author) "Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 enables you to create and organize slide shows, overhead transparencies, speaker notes, audience handouts, outlines, and more-all in a single presentation..." (more)
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Product Description
This practical, hands-on tutorial expertly builds your skills with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003—one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and practice exercises to learn how to create and deliver professional presentations. Topics include: working with ready-made design templates; creating compelling charts, graphics and text; adding narration, animation, 3-D effects, and movies; e-mailing your work in progress for collaboration; delivering your presentation anywhere from a meeting room to the Web; and more. The book also helps you prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam and makes a great on-the-job reference. The companion CD includes practice files you can use as you learn, as well as the Microsoft Office System Reference pack, which contains templates and clip art, an eBook of Step by Step, and four other eBooks: the Microsoft Office System Quick Reference; the Insider’s Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003; the Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition; and Introducing the Tablet PC. Designed for beginner and intermediate level users, STEP BY STEP puts you in charge of developing the skills you need, exactly when you need them!

About the Author
Online Training Solutions, Inc. (OTSI) is a traditional and electronic publishing company with years of experience in the creation, production, and delivery of computer software training. OTSI wrote Microsoft Windows® XP Step by Step, Microsoft FrontPage® Version 2002 Step by Step, and Microsoft Access Version 2002 Step by Step. The company publishes the Quick Course® and Practical Business Skills™ series of computer and business training products.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735615225
• ISBN-13: 978-0735615229
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,067 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This should have been the manual, June 15, 2006

By	Rosario Lucasster (Tucson, United States) - See all my reviews

This is certainly as dry as a computer manual, so Microsoft could have included this as at least a PDF with PowerPoint. So did not do that and now they want you to buy this separately. That itself is reason to not buy this book and look at other alternatives.

My favorite others are:

How To Do Everything with PowerPoint 2003
Cutting Edge PowerPoint for Dummies
PowerPoint 2003 Visual Quickstart Guide

27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Basic Windows Information, not just Basic Powerpoint, March 26, 2004

By A Customer

I'm fairly dissapointed by this book, as a lot of it is not just basic instruction for how to use Powerpoint, but also how to use any other Microsoft Office program. I got halfway through before I found anything that I didn't already know just from using Word and Excel. This book is for someone with practically NO knowledge of computers, period.

42 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book if you are new to PowerPoint, November 16, 2003

By	D. M Swaney (Oxnard, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is written for beginners of this program and is not very good if you are already experienced in using the software or are looking for advanced topics. I bought this book because I never user PowerPoint before and when I started my Bachelors degree program I was required to do presentations in class with PowerPoint slides and other visual displays so I had to learn it quickly.

This book gave me the knowledge needed to get the job done and look professional but if you are looking for advanced topics like ASP.NET intergration or other advanced topics you might want to take a look at the Inside Out series of books or the PowerPoint 2003 Bible.