Chapter 1
Welcome to PowerPoint
IN THIS CHAPTER
Discovering PowerPoint
Firing up PowerPoint
Making sense of the PowerPoint screen and the Ribbon
Creating a new presentation
Saving and closing your work
Getting help
Getting out of PowerPoint
This chapter is a grand and gala welcoming ceremony for PowerPoint, Microsoft’s popular slide-presentation program.
This chapter is sort of like the opening ceremony of the Olympics, in which all the athletes parade around the stadium and people make speeches in French. In much the same way, this chapter marches PowerPoint around the stadium so you can get a bird’s-eye view of what the program is and what you can do with it. I make a few speeches, but not in French (unless, of course, you’re reading the French edition of this book).
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