Kathy Jacobs On PowerPoint
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
- Forword - Those Scary PowerPoint Books
- Chapter 1: What Can I Use PPT For?
- Presentation Types
- Who Uses PowerPoint
- Chapter 2: Developing the Content
- What Do You Want To Say?
- Who Is Your Audience?
- How Do You Want To Say It (Part 1)
- Back To The Table...
- How Do You Want To Say It (Part 2)
- Creating An Outline
- Chapter 3: Developing The PowerPoint File
- Creating A Text Presentation From A Template And An Outline
- Placeholders
- Adding Pictures
- Adding Sounds
- Simple Animation
- Slide Transitions
- Setting Up The Show To Run
- Save That Presentation
- Hidden Slides
- Custom Shows
- What s Next?
- Chapter 4: Presentation Fonts
- Font Basics
- Text Size On Slides
- The Best Fonts
- The Worst Fonts
- So What Fonts Should Denny Use?
- Replace Fonts
- Single-Byte And Double-Byte Fonts
- So, What Did Denny End Up With?
- Chapter 5: Colors And Color Schemes
- Picking The Right Colors For The Presentation
- Color Scheming
- Color Gotchas
- Gradients
- Chapter 6: Make It Move
- Animations In PowerPoint 2000 And Earlier
- 2002 And Up: Even Better
- Timing
- Motion Paths
- Chapter 7: Adding Movies
- Working With Movies
- Movie Gotchas
- What Is A CODEC?
- Chapter 8: Timing
- It Isn t Going To Be Exact
- Faking Time Criticalness
- Running A Continuous Loop
- Chapter 9: Presentation Linking
- Linking Within The Presentations
- Absolute Vs. Relative Links
- Navigating Between The Presentations
- Action Button: Exit Button
- Presentation Embedding
- Linking To The Web
- Keeping The User Where You Want Them
- Kiosk Reset
- Testing
- Chapter 10: PowerPoint And Office
- Why Use Microsoft Graph?
- What If I Want To Change The Chart?
- What About Animating A Chart?
- Send To Word And Back
- Emailing Presentations
- Okay, But The Files Are Too Big To Email....
- Clip Gallery
- WordArt
- Equation Editor
- Chapter 11: Keeping Your File The Right Size
- Turn Off Fast Saves
- Accept Changes
- Pictures: How Big Should They Be?
- Sounds: Quality Vs. Size
- Fonts
- Master Slide Elements
- OLE-Related File Bloating
- Chapter 12: Printing
- Color, Black And White, Grayscale
- Printing Posters
- Common Print Gotchas
- Chapter 13: Saving Your Presentation
- PowerPoint Files: ppt Vs. pps Extensions
- PowerPoint And HTML
- Password Protection Information Control
- Chapter 14: For Presenters - Getting Ready To Present
- You Are The Expert
- Notes Pages
- Handouts
- Practice
- Chapter 15: Sharing
- How Do I Know Which Viewer To Use
- Preparing To Share
- 2003: Package For CD
- Pack And Go For PowerPoint 97 Or 2000
- Pack And Go For PowerPoint 2002
- Do It Yourself AutoRun Cds
- Chapter 16: Creating Your Own Template
- Master Slides
- Template Color Schemes
- The Other Masters
- Saving And Distributing Templates
- Chapter 17: Macros In PowerPoint
- What Are Macros?
- Plan The Macro
- Record The Macro
- Edit The Macro
- Create Toolbar
- Add-Ins: PowerPoint s AutoOpen And AutoClose
- Macros That Run In Presentation Mode
- Chapter 18: Producer And Similar Products
- Producer
- PowerPoint To Video: VHS Or DVD
- Capturing The Presentation
- Appendix A: Where To Get More Help
- PowerPoint Help Web Sites
- Template Sources
- Macros, Add-Ins And Other Useful Additions
- OfficeTips
- Snag-It
- Appendix B: Hardware Considerations For PowerPoint
- PowePoint 2003
- PowerPoint 2002
- PowerPoint 2000
- Multiple Monitors
- Why Would I Want This?
- Appendix C: The Most Common Time Wasters And Their Solutions
- Skipping The Planning Phase
- Video DriversHardware Acceleration
- Saving To Removable Media
- Saving Incorrectly
- Autoformat
- Not Using Masters And Templates
- Not Setting Up Color Schemes
- Storing Content In More Than One Folder
- Not Creating A Formal Folder Structure For Your Work
- Using The Wrong Fonts For Distributable Presentations
- Assuming Media Is Embedded
- Not Creating Your Own Toolbar
- Index
- Index_B
- Index_C
- Index_D
- Index_E
- Index_F
- Index_G
- Index_H-J
- Index_K
- Index_L
- Index_M
- Index_N
- Index_O
- Index_P-Q
- Index_R
- Index_S
- Index_T
- Index_U
- Index_V
- Index_W-Z
- List of Figures
- List of Sidebars