Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who Should Read This Book? -- Becoming a Presentation Wizard -- PART I Getting Acquainted with PowerPoint -- 1 Understanding the Basics -- Starting PowerPoint -- Creating a Desktop Shortcut for PowerPoint -- Starting PowerPoint and Opening a Saved File -- Exiting PowerPoint -- Minimizing and Restoring PowerPoint -- Understanding PowerPoint Views -- Changing to a Different View -- Working with the Task Pane -- Choosing a Different Task Pane -- Working with Toolbars -- Displaying the Standard and Formatting Toolbars on Separate Rows -- Moving a Toolbar -- Hiding or Displaying a Toolbar -- Turning Off the Personalized Menus Feature -- 2 Asking for Help -- Asking a Question -- Printing a Help Topic -- Getting Help on the Internet -- Getting Program Updates -- 3 Learning About Presentations -- Using the AutoContent Wizard -- Starting a New Presentation Using a Template -- Starting a Blank Presentation -- Previewing the Presentation Onscreen -- Printing the Presentation -- Working with Presentation Files -- Saving Your Presentation -- Closing the Presentation -- Opening a Recently Used Presentation -- Opening Any Saved Presentation -- PART II Developing an Effective Presentation -- 4 Organizing the Presentation Outline -- Displaying Outline View -- Displaying the Outlining Toolbar -- Outlining a Presentation -- Creating Slides in the Outline Pane -- Promoting and Demoting Lines -- Rearranging Outline Text -- Inserting Slides from Another Presentation -- Sharing Outlines with Microsoft Word -- Importing an Outline -- Exporting an Outline -- Editing Text -- Selecting Text -- Revising Text -- Adding Text to a Placeholder -- Deleting Text from a Slide -- Using the Replace Feature -- Printing the Outline -- 5 Organizing and Improving the Presentation.

Spell Checking the Presentation -- Using the Research Tools -- Using the Thesaurus -- Using Other Research Tools -- Working with Slides in Slide Sorter View -- Selecting Slides -- Inserting a Slide -- Duplicating a Slide -- Moving a Slide -- Deleting Slides -- 6 Changing the Presentation's Look -- Changing the Design Template -- Changing the Color Scheme -- Selecting an Alternate Color Scheme -- Customizing a Color Scheme -- Working with Masters -- Changing Text Formatting -- Moving and Resizing Text Placeholders -- Working with Footers and Special Placeholders -- Applying a Slide Background -- 7 Formatting Slides -- Formatting Slide Text -- Working with the Formatting Toolbar -- Copying Text Formatting -- Selecting a Different Bullet Character -- Selecting a Picture Bullet -- Selecting a Slide Layout -- Inserting a New Slide Based on a Layout -- Inserting Content with Layout Placeholders -- PART III Jazzing Up the Presentation -- 8 Inserting Graphics -- Working with Clip Art -- Using a Clip Art Placeholder -- Adding Clip Art Manually -- Positioning Graphics on the Slide -- Aligning Graphics -- Grouping Graphics -- Designing with WordArt -- Creating the WordArt Object -- Formatting WordArt -- Resizing and Rotating WordArt -- Changing the WordArt's Shape -- Adding Line Art -- Drawing a Line -- Drawing a Rectangle or Oval -- Drawing an AutoShape -- Recoloring the AutoShape -- Adding a Shadow or 3-D Effect -- 9 Using Digital Photographs -- Scanning Photographs -- Enhancing Digital Photographs -- Displaying the Picture Toolbar -- Cropping Pictures -- Rotating the Picture -- Adjusting Brightness and Contrast -- Changing the Image Mode -- 10 Incorporating Tables -- Creating a Table -- Inserting Text into the Table -- Adding Text -- Displaying the Tables and Borders Toolbar -- Aligning Text in a Cell -- Modifying the Table -- Adding Rows and Columns.

Deleting Rows and Columns -- Merging Cells -- Splitting Cells -- Resizing the Table -- Formatting the Table -- Designing a Border -- Adding Color to Cells -- 11 Producing Charts and Graphs -- Entering Data for the Chart -- Exiting and Entering Microsoft Graph -- Changing How the Data Is Plotted -- Formatting the Chart -- Selecting a Chart Type -- Including Text Labels -- Changing a Font -- 12 Creating Diagrams -- Inserting a Diagram -- Adding Text to a Diagram -- Changing the Diagram Structure -- Adding Organization Chart Boxes -- Adding Boxes on Other Diagrams -- Deleting Boxes -- Changing Reporting on an Organization Chart -- Changing the Subordinate Layout on an Organization Chart -- Reversing the Order on Diagrams -- Applying Formatting to the Diagram -- Using AutoFormats -- Manually Formatting the Diagram -- PART IV Creating Special Effects -- 13 Animating the Slide Show -- Using Slide Transitions -- Applying an Animation Scheme -- Creating Custom Animation -- Adding an Animation Effect -- Modifying an Animation -- Reordering Animations -- Removing an Animation -- 14 Moving Along with Multimedia -- Adding Sound Clips to a Slide -- Attaching a Sound to an Object -- Playing Audio CDs -- Adding Video Clips to a Slide -- PART V Getting Ready for the Show -- 15 Working with Other Office Applications -- Using the Office Clipboard -- Displaying the Clipboard -- Copying and Pasting with the Clipboard -- Keeping the Source Formatting When Pasting -- Dragging and Dropping Between Applications -- Linking Content -- Linking Part of a File -- Linking an Entire File -- Changing the Link Update Method -- Embedding Content -- Returning to PowerPoint -- Editing an Embedded Object -- 16 Adding the Final Touches to Your Presentation -- Using Notes -- Adding Notes to a Slide -- Working in Notes Page View -- Working with the Notes Master -- Removing a Placeholder.

Moving a Placeholder -- Resizing a Placeholder -- Restoring Deleted Placeholders -- Editing Headers and Footers -- Printing Your Notes -- Using Hidden Slides -- Hiding a Slide -- Using Hidden Slides During a Slide Show -- Recording Slide Timings -- Setting the Timing for an Individual Slide -- Setting the Same Timing for All Slides -- Recording Custom Timings for Each Slide -- 17 Creating Audience Handouts -- Printing Handouts -- Formatting Handouts with the Handout Master -- Exporting Handouts to Microsoft Word -- 18 Delivering the Presentation -- Presenting a Live Slide Show -- Moving Between Slides -- Pausing the Presentation -- Blanking the Screen -- Using the Pen in Slide Show View -- Writing with the Pen Tool -- Working with Saved Annotations -- Changing the Pen Color -- 19 Creating a Self-Running Presentation -- Creating Hyperlinks -- Hyperlinking to Another Slide in the Presentation -- Creating Hyperlinks to Web Sites -- Creating an E-Mail Hyperlink -- Editing Hyperlinks -- Using a ScreenTip -- Creating Action Buttons -- Adding Voice-Over Narration -- 20 Publishing to the Web or CD -- Publishing the Presentation in Web Format -- Publishing a Presentation to CD -- A Using Shortcut Keys -- Showing Shortcut Keys in ScreenTips -- Basic Shortcuts -- Working with the Help System -- Working with the Outline Pane -- Editing Text -- Formatting Text -- Moving Around in a Table or Slide Show -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Z -- Index -- Symbols -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J-K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q-R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W-Z.