Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Bible or Microsoft Office Specialist Study Guide

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Bible

Author: Faithe Wempen

Creating a good presentation is much more than just clicking a few dialog boxes and typing some text. It requires knowledge and planning—lots of it. With the PowerPoint 2007 Bible you will not only be able to build a presentation with PowerPoint, but you’ll also be able to explain why you made the choices you did, and you’ll deliver that presentation smoothly and with confidence.

Experienced PowerPoint presenters will find the book full of coverage of Microsoft's new Office user interface for PowerPoint, including the innovative Ribbon. Anyone using PowerPoint will appreciate the advice on how to avoid really bad PowerPoint, get beyond bullet points, and engage the audience by creating PowerPoint presentations that don't suck.

Valuable CD-ROM included! The CD-ROM included with the book contains more than 500 ready-to-use PowerPoint templates, backgrounds and themes from some of the best-known professional PowerPoint designers

Some of the topics covered include:

• Getting familiar with PowerPoint, the new tabs and Ribbon, the Office menu, SmartArt, and PowerPoint views

• Delivering an effective presentation from identifying your audience and purpose through developing the content and rehearsing to preparing the room and equipment and finally getting on stage

• Working with slides, text, and text formatting including the right fonts for your presentation format

• Laying out slides and presentations with layouts, masters,backgrounds, and the new PowerPoint 2007 Themes

• Working with tables and including tabluar material and data from Word or Excel

•Drawing, working with photos and using charts, clip art, and PowerPoint 2007's new SmartArt

• Adding sound effects, music, video, and soundtracks

• Creating animations and transitions

• Supporting your audience and presentation with handouts, speaker notes, and outlines

• Working with PowerPoints live presentation tools including on-screen controls, backup slides, custom shows, preparing your presentation for use on another computer, and preparing your AV equipment or projectors

• Building other presentation types including a self-running kiosk and a web and CD/DVD presentations

• Sharing and collaborating on presentations on a LAN or using the new SharePoint Slide Library

• 4 special labs to help you put all of your PowerPoint skills to us in great content including presenting content with out Bullet lists

• The CD-ROM included with the book contains more than 500 ready-to-use PowerPoint templates, backgrounds and themes from some of the best-known professional PowerPoint designers

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Microsoft Office Specialist Study Guide: Office 2003 Edition

Author: Online Training Solutions Staff

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Office! This easy-to-use study guide helps you practice and prepare for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification, covering all the exams on the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions track, including both specialist and expert-level certifications. For each exam, you'll build the skills and knowledge measured by its objectives through a series of step-by-step exercises and end-of-chapter reviews. Easy-to-follow screen shots and explanations bring key concepts to life and expertly guide you through the material. The CD contains practice files and practice tests so you can shore up your learning and get ready for the real exam. Includes exam preparation for Microsoft Office Word 2003, Word 2003 Expert, Excel 2003, Excel 2003 Expert, PowerPoint® 2003, Access 2003, and Outlook® 2003.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	Microsoft Office specialist Word 2003 core exam
	Creating content	4
	Organizing content	39
	Formatting content	62
	Collaborating	94
	Formatting and managing documents	106
Pt. II	Microsoft Office specialist Word 2003 expert exam
	Formatting content	133
	Organizing content	153
	Formatting documents	183
	Collaborating	206
	Customizing word	223
Pt. III	Microsoft Office specialist Excel 2003 core exam
	Creating data and content	241
	Analyzing data	258
	Formatting data and content	277
	Collaborating	292
	Managing workbooks	296
Pt. IV	Microsoft Office specialist Excel 2003 expert exam
	Organizing and analyzing data	325
	Formatting data and content	370
	Collaborating	383
	Managing data and workbooks	398
	Customizing Excel	411
Pt. V	Microsoft Office specialist PowerPoint 2003 exam
	Creating content	427
	Formatting content	465
	Collaborating	496
	Managing and delivering presentations	504
Pt. VI	Microsoft Office specialist Access 2003 exam
	Structuring databases	539
	Entering data	600
	Organizing data	609
	Managing databases	631
Pt. VII	Microsoft Office specialist Outlook 2003 exam
	Messaging	651
	Scheduling	676
	Organizing	699