Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Introduction
- Who Should Read This Book?
- What This Book Does for You
- Can This Book Really Teach Office 2003 in 24 Hours?
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Part I. Working with Office 2003
- Hour 1. Getting Acquainted with Office 2003
- Part II. Processing with Word 2003
- Hour 2. Welcome to Word 2003
- Hour 3. Formatting with Word 2003
- Hour 4. Managing Documents and Customizing Word 2003
- Hour 5. Advanced Word 2003
- Part III. Computing with Excel 2003
- Hour 6. Understanding Excel 2003 Workbooks
- Hour 7. Restructuring and Editing Excel 2003 Worksheets
- Hour 8. Using Excel 2003
- Hour 9. Formatting Worksheets to Look Great
- Hour 10. Charting with Excel 2003
- Part IV. Presenting with Flair
- Hour 11. PowerPoint 2003 Presentations
- Presenting PowerPoint
- Understanding Presentations and Slides
- Creating a New Presentation
- Summary
- Q&A
- Hour 12. Editing and Arranging Your Presentations
- Hour 13. PowerPoint 2003 Advanced Features
- Hour 14. Animating Your Presentations
- Part V. Organizing with Outlook 2003
- Hour 15. Communicating with Outlook 2003
- Hour 16. Planning and Scheduling with Outlook 2003
- Part VI. Tracking with Access 2003
- Hour 17. Access 2003 Basics
- Hour 18. Entering and Displaying Access 2003 Data
- Hour 19. Retrieving Your Data
- Hour 20. Reporting with Access 2003
- Part VII. Combining Office 2003 and the Internet
- Hour 21. Office 2003 and the Internet
- Hour 22. Creating Web Content with Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
- Part VIII. Publishing Eye-Catching Documents
- Hour 23. Publishing with Flair Using Publisher 2003
- Hour 24. Adding Art to Your Publications
- Part IX. Appendixes
- Appendix B. Business Contact Manager and Office Extras
- Part X. Bonus Hours
- Hour 25. Using FrontPage 2003 for Web Page Design and Creation
- Hour 26. Managing Your Web with FrontPage
Understanding Presentations and Slides
The primary purpose of PowerPoint is to help you design, create, and edit presentations and printed handouts. A presentation is a set of screens (called slides) that you present to people in a group. Because PowerPoint provides a wide variety of predefined templates, you don't have to be a graphics design specialist to create good-looking presentations.
PowerPoint slides can hold many kinds of information. Here are a few of the things you can add to a PowerPoint presentation:
- Data you insert into PowerPoint, including text, charts, graphs, and graphics
- Word documents
- Live data from the Internet including complete Web pages
- Excel worksheets
- Excel graphs and charts
- Access databases
- Multimedia content such as movies and sound
- Graphics programs that you use to create and edit graphics
- Other software programs whose data you import into PowerPoint
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