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Chapter 1PowerPointing with the Best of ThemIn This Chapter䊳 Getting used to the new PowerPoint 2007 interface䊳 Discovering PowerPoint’s elements䊳 Cre

What Can You Use PowerPoint For?You can use PowerPoint to create all sorts of presentations:⻬ Business presentations: More than anything else, people

⻬ Educational content: Colleges and universities commonly have theirown banks of presentations for every conceivable subject. Some of thesepresentatio

Truth and sincerityMore than anything else, audiences want sincerity and truth. Just becauseyou put that sentence in a 48-point bold font in a contras

⻬ Make sure your text is large enough that it can be read even by theaudience members in the last row.You don’t want to make anyone inthe audience squ

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And that brings me to what I mean by the term cutting edge. After all, thatterm is part of the title of this book. By cutting edge, I mean using simpl

⻬ Groups: Buttons are arranged logically into groups. For example, all theparagraph formatting options are located within the Paragraph group ofthe Ho

The Mini ToolbarSo what is a Mini Toolbar? As much as you might like that mini bar in yourhotel room, I promise you this one is more helpful! If you s

In the following sections, I explain more about these individual elements andthen follow it up with how they team together to form an entire presentat

Images and text always work together — collectively, they achieve more thanthe sum of each other’s potential. However, images need to be relevant to t

Animations and transitionsAnimations and transitions fulfill an important objective: introducing severalelements one at a time in a logical fashion to

Interactivity and linking are covered in Chapter 13. Good flow concepts areinfluenced by proper use of consistency and animation. Consistency is cover

Presentation structureA typical presentation structure combines the elements I mention at thebeginning of this chapter into something like what you se