Microsoft PowerPoint 2000|Microsoft Press 1572319720

||boek: Microsoft PowerPoint 2000||Microsoft Press Step by Step

||door: Microsoft Press

||taal: en
||jaar: 1999
||druk: ?
||pag.: 328p
||opm.: softcover|like new|with CD

||isbn: 1-57231-972-0
||code: 1:002561

--- Over het boek (foto 1): Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 ---

A self-paced training system allows the user to get the most out of a popular presentation graphics program and includes a companion CD which offers lesson-appropriate practice files. Original. 40,000 first printing. (Intermediate).

About the author

Perspection, Inc. is a technology training company committed to providing information to help people communicate, make decisions, and solve problems.

[source: https--www.amazon.nl]

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT 2000 STEP BY STEP is the easiest and fastest way to teach yourself to use the latest upgrade of Microsoft's popular desktop slide presentation program. Work through every lesson to complete the full course, or do individual lessons to learn just the skills you need. Either way, you learn at your optimum pace from the teacher who knows you best - you.

With this book and Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, you'll learn to:

• Create, deliver, and print slide presentations
• Outline your ideas and add and modify text
• Apply and modify templates
• Implement color schemes
• Add clip art, charts, and graphs; draw and modify objects
• Create a presentation using Microsoft Office multimedia files
• Publish your presentations for viewing on the Internet or intranets
• Broadcast your presentations in real time over the Internet or intranets
• Share a presentation in an online meeting

This book is approved courseware for the Microsoft Office Specialist Program. Go to: http--www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/officespecialist/default.mspx

Amazon.com Review

"An informative, well designed book without a soul."

I know nothing about PowerPoint, other than it's a presentation program and that I've spent many a dark hour barely awake at such presentations. So in these waning days of Office 2000, I thought I'd pick up a popular PowerPoint primer and see what's up. Upon leafing through the book, I was pleasantly surprised--but then I found myself suddenly mortified. This book has no author!

A book without an author is like a person without a personality. It's just shocking to think that such a thing could happen. Of course, someone did have to write this book, and that's this "Perspection, Inc." organization. After leafing madly through the front matter, I found the true author, one Katherine Pinard. Hey, Kathy! You wrote a good book. Go to work for yourself and make some real money!

Overall, I liked the book. I can see how the Step by Step series is one of the most popular computer book series of all time. At first I was taken aback by the many, many design elements. There are steps, figures, sidebars, icons, callouts, and margin art on just about every page. But it works! It's not junky; it's actually informative and makes the book highly accessible.

The book is also keenly organized. Information is presented clearly and accurately. You don't need to read the whole thing, either: just hop up to whatever chapter or section you need and you can get going. It's nice that the book appreciates that, seeing how people who are involved in presentations are often rushed.

Of course, the book is utterly devoid of a personality, which is sad because it would add a fun dimension it presently lacks. For example, the examples. They're painfully trite. Without an author, the book lacks a certain companionship I find in personality-laden books. I get no sense of "we're in this together" or "let me offer some insight." No, it's just information. Good, well-written information, but uninspiring.

I remember another computer book publisher seething with envy over the Step by Step books, which is fully justified. If the PowerPoint 2000 book is any indication, this is a solid series that serves its purpose well. But I'll never be fully comfortable with any book that lacks an author. --Dan Gookin

[source: https--www.amazon.com.be]

Step by Step [2009-06-15]

Designed for anyone who wants to learn or improve your skills. Easy to follow and sample problems are very useful.

J. Randal Dupape [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Good for beginning users, maybe [2000-05-12]

The "step-by-step" in the title should have clued me in to the fact that this book is really for someone with limited (or no) knowledge of PowerPoint. I think I would have been much better off purchasing the "running" series, instead. Having said that, the strength of this book is in the way it familiarizes the reader with some of the things that one can do in PowerPoint and (perhaps more importantly) provides the reader with the vocabulary to ask the paperclip guy the right question. It did not, to my knowledge cover anything that was not covered in the help section and in some case presented it in a more confusing way. I did share this book with a colleague, though, and she used it to enhance an existing slide show. If you are more that a little familiar with PowerPoint, though I think you will find (as I did) that The Running PowerPoint book has much more substance to it.

Eric Karl Chambers [source: https--www.amazon.com]

Everything Except a Life [2006-06-15]

This is a nice book that's written in such a dry style that it's difficult to finish the book. So you might rush through the pages when you are stuck somewhere but if you thought they could have written it in a more human style, then you are spot on what this book is!

Anyway, I use PowerPoint 2003 but this book has a nice coverage of color schemes but nothing like Cutting Edge PowerPoint for Dummies. That book covers PowerPoint 2000, 2002, and 2003.

Susannah Goodman [source: https--www.amazon.com]

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