Chapter 22. Getting Started with PowerPoint

In this chapter

What Is PowerPoint Good For? 700

Anatomy of a PowerPoint Presentation 700

PowerPoint File Types 702

File Compatibility Issues 704

Creating a Presentation 704

Viewing a Presentation 710

Managing Slide Shows 715

Navigating Through a Presentation 718

Extra Credit: Supercharging PowerPoint with a Free Add-in 721

What Is PowerPoint Good For?

Most people think of PowerPoint as the tool for delivering sales pitches and boring speeches at business meetings. It’s even been parodied for its capability to boil big ideas down to trite summaries, most famously by Peter Norvig in a version of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address done, brilliantly, as a stack of banal PowerPoint slides. (See it for ...

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