Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2000 Bible (Paperback)

by Faithe Wempen (Author) "This chapter provides some background information about PowerPoint and shows you several practical applications for the materials you can create..." (more)
Key Phrases: broadway auto, presentation onscreen, slide master, Clip Gallery, Slide Sorter, Office Assistant (more...)

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Product Description
Ever considered changing the fonts in your presentation depending on the audience size? Or wondered what colors work best for selling? Packed with practical advice you can't find anywhere else, the Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Bible brings you in "one big book" absolutely everything you need to plan, build, and run dynamite PowerPoint presentations that get your point across.

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If PowerPoint can do it, you can do it too… Ever considered changing the fonts in your presentation depending on the audience size? Or wondered what colors work best for selling? Packed with practical advice you can't find anywhere else, the Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2000 Bible brings you "in one big book" absolutely everything you need to plan, build, and run dynamite PowerPoint presentations that get your point across. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of PowerPoint 2000

• Find out quickly and easily how to plan and build a basic presentation
• Learn how to work with PowerPoint's wizards and built-in templates
• Tailor the look of your presentation to your audience with clip or custom art, animation, graphs and charts, and multimedia effects
• Embed links and objects from other programs
• Design self-running and user-driven shows for trade events
• Prepare a presentation for a live audience or online distribution
• Collaborate effectively on a team project via shared folders or NetMeeting
• Customize PowerPoint by writing your own macros

CD-ROM packed with great multimedia add-ons for your presentations!

• Special effect clips from Artbeats
• Backgrounds, buttons, textures, and music and video clips from Compadre
• Classy artwork from Retro Ad Art
• Nova Development's Animation Sample and Clip Art collection
• Trial REFlow, REF Electronic's excellent flow-charting utility

Plus MindSpring Internet Access, Netscape Communicator, and fully searchable electronic version of the book Shareware programs are fully functional, free trial versions of copyrighted programs. If you like particular programs, register with their authors for a nominal fee and receive licenses, enhanced versions, and technical support. Freeware programs are free, copyrighted games, applications, and utilities. You can copy them to as many PCs as you like—free—but they have no technical support.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 605 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (May 7, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764532529
• ISBN-13: 978-0764532528
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #994,280 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, October 18, 1999

By A Customer

This book is good because it doesn't just tell you how to use the features of PowerPoint (although it does do that really well), it also explains things like good presentation design, public speaking skills, etc. to make your overall picture to the audience a success. It's like getting a really good computer book and bonus books on public speaking and graphic design all in one.

35 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I am recommending this to all my colleagues!, November 1, 1999

By	R. Leach "SailerDude" (Chicagoland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am the Technology Training Coordinator at Huntington College, Indiana. I have read through the text and I am using it in my latest PP2000 class for facutly and staff becuase I think the book is clear, easy to understanding, detailed and has been extra tips, notes, and cautions that help one make great presentations. I have no relationship to the author or the publisher.

I do wish the CD came with some PP examples to use along with the text.

Robert

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Probably as good as it gets--more's the pity, October 7, 2002

By	"fredfresno" (Reedley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This book did not serve my purposes particularly well, which probably says as much about my differences from the core audience of the book and of PowerPoint as it does about this book itself.

I am in a scientific/technical field. To me, content comes before style. Show me too many whistles and bells (Word Art, animation, sound clips, etc.) and the BS shields go up. In that sense, my perspective is 180º opposite that of sales professionals, whom I gather are both Microsoft's core market for PowerPoint and Ms. Wempen's core audience for this book.

These differences in perspective show up in this books relatively scant treatment of importing images and other objects. For someone who uses a lot of PNG, JPG, or other image files in their presentations, there are questions about how much resolution (how large a file size) is helpful and how much is overkill. You won't find treatment of that subject in this book. Likewise, you're largely on your own with the subtleties and complexities of making relatively obscure scientific graphing software work with PowerPoint through the "wonderful magic" of OLE (or whatever they're now calling it).

Often the index is a very important component of a reference book. You can get software to compile an index for you, but depending on that is like depending entirely on your word processor's spelling and grammar checking functions, rather than having a human copy editor. This book seems to me to have let the machine do it. For instance, I was trying to determine how to omit a slide from a presentation rather than deleting it. I first looked up "omit" in Microsoft's online help. No luck (Microsoft, of course, depends third party authors like Ms. Wempen to provide adequate documentation of Office suite software, at no cost to Microsoft.) No luck in "the Bible" either. After kludging around a while in the menus, I found "hide" in the "Slide Show" menu. I then turned to "the Bible". There is no entry for "hide". There are two entries for "hiding". One, in the 30 pages "quick-start" pre-book, tells how to hide the very annoying Office Assistant that I long ago exorcised. The other refers to "backup slides" on page 90, which is a discussion of various types of audiences.