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Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007

by Ed Bott, Woody Leonhard
September 2007
Beginner
792 pages
23h 32m
English
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Chapter 17. Getting Started with PowerPoint

In this chapter

What Is PowerPoint Good For?

Anatomy of a PowerPoint Presentation

PowerPoint File Types

Creating a Presentation

Developing a Presentation

Managing Slideshows

Navigating Through a Presentation

Extra Credit: Using PowerPoint to Create a Photo Album

What Is PowerPoint Good For?

Most people think of PowerPoint as the tool for delivering sales pitches and boring speeches at business meetings. It’s even been parodied for its capability to boil big ideas down to trite summaries, most famously by Peter Norvig in a version of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address done, brilliantly, as a stack of banal PowerPoint slides. (See it for yourself at http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/.)

Thankfully, PowerPoint ...

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