Special Edition Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2002

Introduction

In this introduction

Why You Should Use This Book

How This Book Is Organized

Conventions Used in This Book

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 is the latest version of this powerful presentation graphics software program and is part of the Microsoft Office XP family. Using PowerPoint, you can create a basic slideshow quickly or you can delve into sophisticated features to create a customized presentation. Because it's part of the Microsoft Office suite of products, you'll find PowerPoint intuitive and very familiar if you already use any other Office applications, such as Word or Excel.

Because creating a successful presentation is more than just becoming a PowerPoint power user, we've included a special section in this book on presentation ...