This book is for readers who are already familiar with PowerPoint and want to extend and enrich their PowerPoint experience with design, multimedia, and color to create engaging presentations - Packed with tips, shortcuts, workarounds, and time-saving techniques, this book explains how to create diverse projects in PowerPoint, from templates and masters to product catalogs, corporate profiles, timelines, and even picture slide shows - Complex procedures are made easy to understand with step-by-step instructions as well as helpful examples - The CD-ROM is packed with templates, textures, backgrounds, fill styles, background music scores, alpha channel-equipped graphics, transitions, images, maps, illustrations, a trial version of PowerPoint, and more

Table of Contents

Introduction. Part I: Powering Up PowerPoint. Chapter 1: PowerPointing with the Best of Them. Chapter 2: Empowering Your PowerPoint Program. Chapter 3: Color Is Life. Chapter 4: Streamlining with Masters and Templates. Part II: Achieving Visual Appeal. Chapter 5: AutoShape Magic. Chapter 6: Drawing in PowerPoint. Chapter 7: Dressing Up the Text Stuff. Chapter 8: Adding Images to Your Presentations. Chapter 9: Pulling in Diagrams, Charts, Equations, and Maps. Part III: Adding Motion, Sounds, and Effects. Chapter 10: Listening and Watching: The Sound and Video Stuff. Chapter 11: Moving On with Animations and Transitions. Part IV: Communicating Beyond the PowerPoint Program. Chapter 12: Interactivity and Linking. Chapter 13: Exchanging Information. Chapter 14: Preparing and Delivering Your Awesome Presentation. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 15: My Ten Favorite PowerPoint Tips. Chapter 16: Ten PowerPoint Problems. Appendix: What's on the CD-ROM. Index.

About the Author

Geetesh Bajaj is based in Hyderabad, India, and he got started with his first PowerPoint presentation around a decade ago. He has been working with PowerPoint ever since. Geetesh believes that any presentation is a sum of its elements. Everything in a presentation can be broken down to this element level, and PowerPoint's real power lies in its ability to act as glue for all such elements. Geetesh contributes regularly to journals and Web sites, including Presentations magazine and the Microsoft.com Web site. He's also a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and a regular on Microsoft's PowerPoint newsgroups. It is from this newsgroup that many of the ideas and thoughts in this book were assimilated. Geetesh's own Web site at indezine.com has hundreds of pages on PowerPoint usage. It also has a blog, an e-zine, product reviews, free templates and interviews. Geetesh welcomes comments and suggestions about his books. He can be reached at geetesh@geetesh.com.