Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003

Chapter 13. Preparing a Slide Show for Presentation

In this chapter

• Find out why it’s important to put finishing touches on a slide show

• Learn how to use the slide sorter

• Explore the use of slide transitions

• Learn how to change slide color schemes and backgrounds

• Find out how to create speaker notes

• Learn to create custom shows within a master slide show

To this point this book has focused on the content of a slide show and how to make that content as effective as possible. The time soon comes, however, when you have to make the presentation. This chapter looks at how you can get a slide show ready for a presentation. It focuses on things you can do to entire slides or groups of slides, instead of how you change the content or action of an individual ...