Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 11. Collaborating with PowerPoint

You’ve seen in earlier chapters a bit about how you can use other applications to enhance your PowerPoint presentations. For example, in Chapter 2, you saw how Microsoft Word can be used to write the text of your presentation. In Chapter 5, there was some discussion about using graphics programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Fireworks to produce presentation images.

But importing and exporting text and pictures doesn’t begin to exhaust PowerPoint’s abilities to work with other applications and with your colleagues. In this chapter, you’ll see how PowerPoint can use content from Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel; and export your presentations to PDF (Adobe Acrobat) documents and other formats.

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