Effective Executive's Guide to PowerPoint 2000: The Seven Steps to Creating High-Value, High-Impact PowerPoint Presentations

✍ Scribed by Stephen L. Nelson, Michael Buschmohle

• Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written specifically for busy executives, managers, and other professionals, Effective Executive's Guide to PowerPoint 2000 walks you through the seven steps of creating high-value, high-impact presentations:

Step 1: Learn the Logic. Start here with an overview of what PowerPoint is and how it helps you make better presentations.

Step 2: Outline Your Content. Create a textual list, or outline, of the messages and points you want to share.

Step 3: Add Objects. Use tables, charts, and pictures to augment the information in your outline.

Step 4: Design Your Look. Move past the substance of your presentation and address its appearance and ''look'' to create a professional presentation.

Step 5: Add Special Effects. Use transitions, animation, sound, and video to enhance your presentation's impact.

Step 6: Prepare Your Presentation. Prepare by creating speaker's notes, rehearsing, producing any handouts, and tailoring your presentation's slides for the presentation method.

Step 7: Deliver Your Presentation. Deliver a successful, memorable presentation to your audience by comfortably using the appropriate PowerPoint tools.

More than just a book about Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, Effective Executive's Guide to PowerPoint 2000 explains how to make effective, compelling presentations that audiences understand and remember.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Step 1 Learn the Logic......Page 28
Step 2 Outline Y Your our Content......Page 42
Step 3 Add Objects......Page 66
Step 4 Design Y Your our Look......Page 96
Step 5 Add Special Ef Effects......Page 120
Step 6 Prepare Y Your our Presentation......Page 142
Step 7 Deliver Y Your our Presentation......Page 168
Appendix A Using Microsoft Graph......Page 186
Appendix B Using W WordArt......Page 208
Appendix C Simple Presentation Strategies......Page 216
Glossary......Page 222
Index......Page 227