Kathy Jacobs On PowerPoint 

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• 1. Table of Contents

• 2. BackCover

• 3. Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint

• 4. Forword - Those Scary PowerPoint Books

• 5. Chapter 1: What Can I Use PPT For?

  Why PowerPoint

• 6. Presentation Types

  Presentation Types Speaker-Led Presentations Self-Running Presentations Kiosk Presentations

• 7. Who Uses PowerPoint

  Who Uses PowerPoint Business Uses Training And Teaching Uses Home Use

• 8. Chapter 2: Developing the Content

  Overview

• 9. What Do You Want To Say?

  What Do You Want To Say? What Does Everyone Need To Know? Did We Miss Anything? Prioritize Your Messages

• 10. Who Is Your Audience?

  Who Is Your Audience? Link Messages To Audiences Evaluate: Did We Miss Anyone?

• 11. How Do You Want To Say It (Part 1)

  How Do You Want To Say It (Part 1) Audience Size Aiming The Presentation At The Right Group Audience Location Presenter And Audience Interaction Number Of Times To Present Benefits Of Preparation

• 12. Back To The Table...

  Back To The Table

• 13. How Do You Want To Say It (Part 2)

  How Do You Want To Say It (Part 2) Some General Rules About Style

• 14. Creating An Outline

  Creating An Outline Creating An Outline In Notepad Creating An Outline In Word Creating An Outline In PowerPoint Now Generate The Outline Alternatives To Outlines

• 15. Chapter 3: Developing The PowerPoint File

  Before You Start Turn Off Fast Saves Turn On Autorecover Verify Default Save Location Install Drivers For A Local Printer Adjust Your Recently Used File List Verify The Size Of WAV Files To Be Included In Your Files Adjust Number Of Undos Turn Off Background Printing Verify Macro Security Level Adjust Automatic Layout Options

• 16. Creating A Text Presentation From A Template And An Outline

  Creating A Text Presentation From A Template And An Outline What Is A Template? Which Templates Come With PowerPoint? Select And Apply A Template Verify And Save Your Presentation

• 17. Placeholders

  Placeholders Adding Content With Placeholders Multipurpose Placeholders A Special Case Selecting Slide Designs

• 18. Adding Pictures

  Adding Pictures Adding Multiple Pictures At The Same Time Auto Shapes What Shapes Are Available? How Are Shapes Added? Changing The Shape Change The Color And Edge Of The Shape To Set Default Shape Properties What More Can I Do?

• 19. Adding Sounds

  Adding Sounds Adding Sounds And Narration Don t Want The Icon To Show? Playing Sounds For Large Audiences

• 20. Simple Animation

  Simple Animation Accessing The Animation Options PowerPoint 2000 And Earlier Versions PowerPoint 2002 And Later Versions What About Animating Sounds? Multiple Slide Sounds? Be Careful Of This Gotcha

• 21. Slide Transitions

  Slide Transitions Using Slide Transitions

• 22. Setting Up The Show To Run

  Setting Up The Show To Run PowerPoint 2000 And Earlier PowerPoint 2002 And Later One Last Note About Setting Up Shows

• 23. Save That Presentation

  Save That Presentation Now That The Presentation Is Saved

• 24. Hidden Slides

  Hidden Slides Hidden Slide Example: FAQ Slides

• 25. Custom Shows

  Custom Shows Create A Custom Show Accessing The Custom Show Other Uses For Custom Shows

• 26. What s Next?

  What s Next?

• 27. Chapter 4: Presentation Fonts

  Overview

• 28. Font Basics

  Font Basics What About Kerning? How Do I Change Fonts?

• 29. Text Size On Slides

  Text Size On Slides Let s Get This Out Of The Way. So What Is The Right Font Size? Anything Else About Font Sizes?

• 30. The Best Fonts

  The Best Fonts Make It Easy To Read The Presentation Use Common Fonts When Sharing Presentations Embed Non-Standard Fonts Coordinate Your Fonts

• 31. The Worst Fonts

  The Worst Fonts Fonts That Don t Scale Well Overly Decorative Fonts Fonts That Are Too Light Fonts With Incomplete Character Sets Fonts That Don t Travel Well

• 32. So What Fonts Should Denny Use?

  So What Fonts Should Denny Use?

• 33. Replace Fonts

  Replace Fonts Basic Usage Unavailable Fonts Warning

• 34. Single-Byte And Double-Byte Fonts

  Single-Byte And Double-Byte Fonts Single-Byte Vs. Double-Byte Problems. Resolutions.

• 35. So, What Did Denny End Up With?

  So What Did Denny End Up With?

• 36. Chapter 5: Colors And Color Schemes

  Overview

• 37. Picking The Right Colors For The Presentation

  Picking The Right Colors For The Presentation Rule 1: Pick Colors That Work Together Rule 2: Base Background On Environment Rule 3: Coordinate Your Text And Title Colors Rule 4: Choose Colors That Reflect The Message Rule 5: Have Someone Else Look At The Colors Rule 5 B: Color For The Color Deficient

• 38. Color Scheming

  Color Scheming How To Delete A Color Scheme

• 39. Color Gotchas

  Color Gotchas Color Numbers: CMYK RBG Etc. My Text Keeps Disappearing Wall Color

• 40. Gradients

  Gradients

• 41. Chapter 6: Make It Move

  Overview

• 42. Animations In PowerPoint 2000 And Earlier

  Animations In PowerPoint 2000 And Earlier Example: Create The Slides Making Things Appear And Disappear In Order Create A Review With Animation Taking The Animation One Step Further

• 43. 2002 And Up: Even Better

  2002 And Up: Even Better First Step: Create The Graphics Second Step: Make The Krill Appear Third Step: Make The Krill React To The Temperature Change Fourth Step: Make The Krill Disappear

• 44. Timing

  Timing What Is A Trigger? Setting Up A Trigger

• 45. Motion Paths

  Motion Paths Accessing Motion Paths Making The Whale Migrate (A Simple Animation) Path Properties And Options

• 46. Chapter 7: Adding Movies

  Overview

• 47. Working With Movies

  Working With Movies Inserting Movies How Does PowerPoint Run My Movies? When Does PowerPoint Run Movies? Where Does PowerPoint Run Movies?

• 48. Movie Gotchas

  Movie Gotchas Moved One Of The Files Directx Problems Incorrect Multimedia Settings Movies Won t Show On Projection Screens

• 49. What Is A CODEC?

  What Is A CODEC? What About Flash Movies?

• 50. Chapter 8: Timing

  Overview

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