| Introduction | p. xx |
| Friday Evening: Getting Started | p. 1 |
| What Makes a Good Presentation? | p. 4 |
| And Our Topic Tonight Is | p. 4 |
| Knowing Your Audience | p. 6 |
| Getting Your Content Ducks in a Row | p. 7 |
| Organizing Your Information | p. 8 |
| Understanding PowerPoint's Output Options | p. 10 |
| Taking a Break | p. 12 |
| A First Glimpse of PowerPoint 2002 | p. 12 |
| Taking a Look at PowerPoint's Toolbars | p. 12 |
| What's on the Menu? | p. 15 |
| Getting Things Done with Task Panes | p. 16 |
| Greating a New Presentation | p. 19 |
| Using the New Presentation Task Pane | p. 20 |
| Exploring Your Options for Creating a Presentation | p. 21 |
| Selecting a Design Background | p. 22 |
| Entering Text on Your Title Slide | p. 24 |
| Saving the Presentation | p. 26 |
| Help! | p. 28 |
| Making Friends with the Office Assistant | p. 29 |
| Using Microsoft PowerPoint Help | p. 31 |
| Getting Help Online | p. 33 |
| Closing PowerPoint | p. 34 |
| What's Next? | p. 34 |
| Saturday Morning: Creating Your Content | p. 35 |
| Word Play | p. 37 |
| Opening Your Presentation | p. 38 |
| Exploring the Outline Feature of PowerPoint | p. 38 |
| Entering Text | p. 39 |
| Selecting Text and Slides | p. 40 |
| Promoting and Demoting Headings | p. 41 |
| Entering Text | p. 42 |
| Organizing Your Thoughts | p. 44 |
| Showing It All or Hiding Some Headings | p. 45 |
| Creating a Summary Slide | p. 47 |
| Rearranging Your Outline | p. 48 |
| Moving Slide Content to Different Levels | p. 50 |
| Adding to Your Outline | p. 50 |
| Sending a Slide Packing | p. 51 |
| Reorganizing Slide Order in Slide Sorter View | p. 52 |
| Duplicating Slides | p. 54 |
| Deleting Slides | p. 55 |
| Collaboration Tools | p. 56 |
| Email Collaboration | p. 57 |
| Setting Up Team Sites | p. 58 |
| How Does a Team Site Work? | p. 58 |
| Creating a Team Site | p. 59 |
| Establishing Roles | p. 63 |
| Posting Announcements and Events | p. 66 |
| Posting PowerPoint Presentations to the Team Web Site | p. 68 |
| Editing a Shared Document | p. 70 |
| What's Next? | p. 72 |
| Saturday Afternoon: Working with Design | p. 73 |
| Presentation Design Basics | p. 75 |
| Adding Pizzazz with Design Templates | p. 76 |
| Selecting Layouts | p. 79 |
| Applying a Layout to a Slide | p. 81 |
| Editing Objects on the Slide Layout | p. 81 |
| Mastering PowerPoint Masters | p. 82 |
| Using Masters | p. 84 |
| Working with Multiple Masters | p. 88 |
| Adding Graphics | p. 89 |
| Adding Global Text | p. 91 |
| Formatting Text | p. 93 |
| Understanding Fonts | p. 94 |
| Applying a Font | p. 95 |
| Changing Font Size | p. 97 |
| Working with Text Effects | p. 99 |
| Making Text Bold, Italic, or Underlined | p. 99 |
| Working with Text Color | p. 100 |
| Taking a Break | p. 103 |
| Adding Notes to Slides | p. 103 |
| Printing Your Presentation | p. 103 |
| Using Print Preview | p. 104 |
| Using the Print Dialog Box | p. 108 |
| Controlling Printer Properties | p. 110 |
| Print What? | p. 111 |
| What's Next? | p. 114 |
| Sunday Morning: Adding Visual Interest | p. 115 |
| Providing Support for Your Ideas with Charts and Tables | p. 117 |
| Adding a Content Element to Your Layout | p. 117 |
| Working with Tables | p. 119 |
| Creating a Table | p. 120 |
| Entering Table Contents | p. 121 |
| Formatting Tables | p. 122 |
| Modifying Borders | p. 123 |
| Working with Table Text | p. 125 |
| Adding Color to Tables | p. 126 |
| Working with Charts | p. 128 |
| Inserting a Bar Chart in Your Presentation | p. 128 |
| Formatting a Chart | p. 131 |
| Taking a Break | p. 134 |
| Working with Graphic Elements | p. 134 |
| Adding Clip Art to Your Presentation | p. 135 |
| Finding the Right Clip Art | p. 135 |
| Inserting Clip Art | p. 137 |
| Moving and Resizing Clip Art | p. 139 |
| Using PowerPoint's Drawing Tools | p. 141 |
| Creating Drawings | p. 141 |
| Using AutoShapes | p. 144 |
| Grouping Objects on a Slide | p. 146 |
| Applying Colors and Modifying Line Styles | p. 147 |
| Adding Text to a Drawing | p. 149 |
| Working with Multimedia | p. 151 |
| Adding Animation | p. 151 |
| Inserting a Media Clip on a Slide | p. 152 |
| Working with Custom Animations | p. 154 |
| Animating Text and Objects | p. 155 |
| Adding Sound Effects | p. 156 |
| What's Next? | p. 159 |
| Sunday Afternoon: Preparing to Make Your Presentation | p. 161 |
| Giving Your Presentation a Final Check | p. 163 |
| Checking Your Presentation's Spelling | p. 164 |
| Looking for Design Problems | p. 166 |
| Setting Up Your Slide Show | p. 172 |
| Making General Settings for Your Show | p. 172 |
| Applying Transitions | p. 175 |
| Using Animation Schemes | p. 177 |
| Recording a Narration | p. 178 |
| Running a Slide Show | p. 181 |
| Navigating a Show | p. 181 |
| Working with Presenter's Tools | p. 184 |
| Rehearsing Timing | p. 187 |
| Taking Your Show on the Road | p. 188 |
| Publishing Your Presentation to the Web | p. 190 |
| Saving Your Presentation as a Web Page | p. 191 |
| Publishing a Presentation to the Web | p. 192 |
| Broadcasting a Presentation | p. 194 |
| Setting Up a Broadcast | p. 195 |
| What's Next? | p. 197 |
| Great Presentations Idea Gallery | p. 199 |
| A Speaker-Driven Presentation | p. 200 |
| An Educational Presentation | p. 202 |
| A Photo Album | p. 203 |
| Web Graphics | p. 205 |
| Online Presentations | p. 206 |
| Movie Credits | p. 208 |
| Charts, Graphs, and Tables | p. 210 |
| Ten Steps to an Effective Web Presentation | p. 213 |
| Learn About Good Web Design | p. 214 |
| Plan Your Web Presentation | p. 215 |
| Create the Web Presentation File | p. 216 |
| Know Your Audience | p. 218 |
| Develop the Presentation | p. 220 |
| Work with Multimedia Files | p. 222 |
| Preview Before You Publish | p. 224 |
| Save the Presentation as a Web Page | p. 226 |
| Publish the Web Presentation | p. 228 |
| Keep the Web Presentation Up-to-Date | p. 228 |
| Online Resource Directory | p. 231 |
| Microsoft PowerPoint Sites | p. 232 |
| Presentation-Oriented Web Sites | p. 232 |
| Presentation Equipment and Services | p. 233 |
| Free Templates, Media Clips, and Plug-Ins | p. 234 |
| Clip Media for Sale | p. 235 |
| Design Resources Online | p. 235 |
| Resources for Writing and Research | p. 236 |
| Talk the Talk with Speech Recognition | p. 239 |
| What You Need to Speak to Your Computer | p. 240 |
| Installing Speech Recognition | p. 241 |
| Activating Speech Recognition | p. 243 |
| Training Speech Recognition | p. 247 |
| Entering Text By Speech | p. 250 |
| Giving Hands Off Commands | p. 251 |
| Glossary | p. 253 |
| Index | p. 258 |
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