Product Description

MicrosoftPowerPoint version 2002 presentation graphics program can help turn ideas into professional, effective presentations. New features help PC users create presentations more easily, illustrate ideas more powerfully, and share it all in any setting, from meeting rooms to the Web. MICROSOFT POWERPOINT VERSION 2002 STEP BY STEP offers self-paced instruction to the beginning-to-advanced user who wants to get the most out of PowerPoint version 2002-and prepare for Microsoft Office User (MOUS) certification. This personal training system offers easy-to-follow lessons full of clear objectives, a wealth of task-oriented procedures, and dozens of real-world business scenarios. Each STEP BY STEP title consists offriendly, straightforward instruction with dozens of full-color screenshots and illustrations to help you learn exactly what you need to know at your own pace. A companion CD-ROM includes practice files that are tightly integrated with the lessons, plus movie-style demonstrations of key procedures. Other features include a "QuickLook Guide" for easy visual navigation, a "Finding the Best Starting Point for You" section to help you decide how to the most out of the book, and a special lay-flat binding to keep the book open during lessons.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #335060 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-13
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

Helpful
Purchased this to help teach myself Powerpoint. It is nice to go at my own pace. Very helpful book.

Quality Step by Step Guide
If you are using a 2002 Version of Powerpoint, this program is right on. I've also found that the later versions are so similar that you can use this book for those as well. My only caution in terms of version is to NOT buy this book for pre-2000 versions, because the program lacks a lot of the more advanced features that this book teaches you.

This book offers a great table of contents, allowing you to find the information you are looking for. It also goes VERY slowly in the early steps to allow you to follow, and uses screenshots as support. This book covers everything from opening a new powerpoint file, to adding advanced animations, sound, pictures, videos, and the like. I used this book to help me with graduate school final project and it helped me to add those features that made my presentation stand out.

If you are new to powerpoint, I would highly reccommend this book. It will make your life a lot easier!!

Barely Adequate
I purchased this book based on the reviews and am disappointed in it. Yes, it does show you exactly what to do but the examples are disjointed. Instead of actually working on a project, you make absolutely minute changes to a pre-existing file. In fact, in one section the authors have you open a blank presentation and save it without having typed a thing!

I thought that maybe each chapter or maybe the whole book would be devoted to creating a project and that the CD would have the supporting files. I had not anticipated that each section of the book would have its own file and so you never build on what you had done in the previous section.

I had used a book on MS Publisher that did just that - you created a project and the authors provided the supporting text and graphics but you actually made something.

Perhaps the book will improve as I am only on chapter 4 but I'm not real hopeful.