PowerPoint 2000 Professional Results [Paperback]

Ellen Finkelstein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 28, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0072119934 | ISBN-13: 978-0072119930 | Edition: 1

A guide to getting professional results from PowerPoint 2000. It contains brief essays on how to get professional results, including creating an effective outline, using colour to influence an audience, and laying out a slide with precision. There are short, practical steps for accomplishing basic tasks, and four-colour inserts which display examples of professional presentations. Specifics are highlighted with callouts and referenced to the pages in the book where the process is explained. The book places a strong emphasis on the fact that a presentation is created to communicate ideas in a compelling, graphic manner and that the specific tasks required to create a presentation should be chosen with that goal in mind.

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From the Back Cover

Your step-by-step guide to devloping dynamic PowerPoint presentations.

Create high-quality, attention-getting PowerPoint presentations in no time with help from PowerPoint 2000:Professional Results. The full-color pages that lead off each section show the professional results, and the chapters that follow them explain how to achieve those results quickly and easily. You'll learn to lay out slides, convey your message through text, graphics, and multimedia, and deliver show-stopping presentations.

Inside, learn how to:

• Set up a well-organized outline
• Format text, choose the right fonts, and add bullets
• Create a slide master for a fully coordinated presentation
• Jazz up your presentation with graphics, dynamic shapes, charts, 3-D effects, and multimedia
• Add hyperlinks, action buttons, and OLE objects
• Publish your presentation on the Web and collaborate with others
• Choose the proper equipment for your event
• Present your slide show with ease and style-and without technical difficulties

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 1 edition (July 28, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072119934
• ISBN-13: 978-0072119930
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,497,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ellen Finkelstein specializes in training professionals to present effectively. She writes about PowerPoint and presenting. Two of her books are How to Do Everything with PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint for Teachers. You can find free tips and sign up for her newsletter on her website, http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com.

Ellen also writes on AutoCAD; her AutoCAD Bible & AutoCAD LT Bible has been a bestseller for years and has been translated into 14 languages.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Will really get you started, January 1, 2000

By 

Samuel Boothby (Fairfield, IA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PowerPoint 2000 Professional Results (Paperback)

When I got this book, I had just moved from a Mac to a PC environment, had just acquired Office 2000, and had a deadline to create a medium sized Power Point presentation within a week. Using the advice in this book, I was able to pull it off with little frustration.

If you've never used Power Point before: the book has a great index, is well organized, and gives many useful tips both for putting the presentation together, and for giving it when you're done.

I used a lot of scanned graphics in my presentation. This section of the book was very helpful to me. Also, of course, the section on creating your first presentation.

Highly recommended.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll be set after this book, January 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: PowerPoint 2000 Professional Results (Paperback)

Here's what I like about this book. The color photos really made the examples come alive. There are all this tips in boxes throughout the book. I learned excellent ideas I would never learn on my own. It is so easily organized that I could find what I needed very quickly. I understood her writing. She writes so I understood her explanations. Mostly I like that when I'm trying to figure out how to do something and feel frustrated I can find the answer in her book.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars PowerPoint 2000 "Professional Results" Delivers, January 3, 2000

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Jim Endicott (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PowerPoint 2000 Professional Results (Paperback)

As a professional consultant in the area of presentation design and development, I've learned over the years how easy it is for even very large clients to create very bad presentations. Professional presentation design is an illusive goal for most companies. Finkelstein's book delivers a good balance of thorough, well-illustrated description, pages full of 4-color examples and contributions from professionals in the field, which add a real world perspective to the textbook instructions. It's my experience that most presentation designers only get a handle on a small fraction of PowerPoint's capability. Books like this one will propel you well beyond the basics. I would recommend it highly. (For those not finding a specific download, it's a bit like focusing on the handprints on the glass front door of the Smithsonian - you'll never discover the true value within if you can't get by the small things.)