PowerPoint 2007 Just the Steps For Dummies

Welcome to Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. This industry-leading program has an abundance of tools and commands to satisfy all your presentation needs. Whether you want to present imortant material to your colleagues or clients or just show off your latest travel photos, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Just the Steps For Dummies has something for you.

About This Book
This book cuts all the fluff out of a computer book and takes you right to steps to produce an effect, task, or job. The book is not linear. However, in some cases, you may need to move around a little to understand one concept before moving to another. Each series of steps is defined with headings to simplify your task of searching for a specific item and finding similar tasks related to a particular concept. Be certain to look back at the Table of Contents when you aren’t certain where to find one task or another. Whenever you want to get something done with this book, try to discipline yourself to follow this method:
1. Pick the task. Glance over the Table of Contents to find a category you want to explore — something like working with pictures, which we cover in Chapter 9.
2. Find it fast. This step is easy because the chapters are designed with coverage of similar items within each chapter. Look over the subheadings listed in the Table of Contents to find a specific task within a given chapter.
3. Get it done. Mimic each step and look at the accompanying figures to help you thoroughly understand a given task.

Why You Need This Book
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 is one of those programs that many people need and use, but they often know only enough to get by. What happens when you want to implement something you haven’t used before, like hyperlinks or sound? Most programs today don’t come with written documentation anymore. You’ll probably have to search through skimpy online Help files or, worse, wade through lots of tedious narrative text in a gigantic reference manual to find the help you need.
This book eliminates background descriptions and detailed explanations and takes you directly to a series of steps to produce precisely what you want to do with a presentation. If you want it simple, fast, and direct, then this book is for you.

How This Book Is Organized
This book is organized into four parts. The following sections introduce each one.

Part I: Creating a Presentation
If you’re fairly new to PowerPoint, the chapters in this part get you up and running. First, you find out how to create a presentation. After your presentation is started, we show you how to add content from scratch, from Word, and from existing
presentations. You then find the necessary steps on how to edit and format your content to get just the look you want. We finish this part by giving you information on working with the various types of masters in PowerPoint.

Part II: Adding Visual Interest to Slides
After you have a basic presentation, you may want to add elements to increase visual interest. These comprehensive chapters show you how to do just that. You find out how to add and edit simple graphics like shapes, lines, and arrows. You then find steps on how to add embellishments, such as shadows, glows, and 3-D effects, to those shapes and also to text. If that isn’t enough, you discover how to jazz up your text by using the WordArt feature. We also give you all the steps you need to know on how to apply color, texture, and pattern to your slide elements. Pictures score big with added visual punch. We show you how to bring in both clip art and photos to your presentations. Finally, we round out this part by giving you all you need to create and fully edit tables, and SmartArt such as charts, organizational charts, and diagrams.

Part III: Adding a Dash of Pizzazz with Multimedia
If text, shapes, and pictures aren’t enough for you, you may want to explore using sound, movies, and animation in your presentations. Using multimedia isn’t nearly as complicated as you may think. We give you the steps to insert sound and movie files from various sources. You also find out how to use hyperlinks to jump to other slides and presentations or to a Web site. To make your presentation flow smoothly, we show you how to implement transitions between your slides. And lastly, to make your presentation really come alive, you find steps on animating slides, objects, and text.

Part IV: Presenting Effectively
When your presentation is ready, we show you how to prepare and share it with the world. You find imortant information on setting up your show options for optimum performance. We give you the steps on printing your slides, handouts, and notes for your audience. You find out how to package your presentation on CD and how to hold an online presentation meeting. We also give you the lowdown on how to save a presentation in the new XML Paper Specification format. Finally, you discover how to give a presentation live or via a kiosk.

Get Ready To ...
Glance over the Table of Contents to locate the task you want to perform in Microsoft Office PowerPoint. You don’t need to grasp any background information; just
jump into the series of steps that defines a solution for a project you want to complete.

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