15. Presenting Yourself: Working with Microsoft PowerPoint

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Understanding Microsoft PowerPoint

• Creating a New Presentation

• Formatting Your Slides

• Adding Graphics

• Applying Slide Animations

• Start the Show!

When you need to present information to a group of people, the hip way to do it is with a PowerPoint presentation. Whether you use an overhead projector, traditional slides, or a computer projector, PowerPoint can help you create great-looking graphic and bullet-point presentations.

If you work in an office, you probably see at least one PowerPoint presentation a week—if not one a day. Teachers use PowerPoint to present lesson materials in class. Kids even use PowerPoint to prepare what used to be oral reports.

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