Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

• 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
  • Hour 12. Editing and Arranging Your Presentations
  • Hour 13. PowerPoint 2003 Advanced Features
  • Hour 14. Animating Your Presentations
    • Using PowerPoint's Slide Show
    • Voice Narration
    • To Do: Use Action Buttons
    • Introducing Animation Schemes
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • 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

Q&A

1. Should I create an entire, narrated presentation when I give my presentation, or control the presentation myself and narrate live?

   PowerPoint makes it extremely easy to create a 100% ready-to-go presentation that automatically moves from one slide to the next, in synch with a narrated sound clip that you store. The problem with this is, why would you want to do that if you were there and could give the presentation yourself live? Your audience will surely prefer to hear you give the presentation. You can still use the many slide tools available to give a powerful punch to your presentation, such as animation and transition effects between slides. By giving the presentation live, you can interact with your audience and go at the pace you sense is best for them.

   People who give the same presentations, however, often have an entire kiosk-style presentation set up, with narration and timed transitions. If that speaker arrives on the scene of a presentation and has a cold or otherwise does not feel up to a live presentation, the audience still gets to hear the show. In addition, Web-based presentations require the automation that the kiosk-style presentations provide. Also, product demonstrations make excellent kiosk-style presentations.

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