Chapter 17. Getting Started with PowerPoint
In this chapter
Anatomy of a PowerPoint Presentation
Navigating Through a Presentation
Extra Credit: Using PowerPoint to Create a Photo Album
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 yourself at http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/.)
Thankfully, PowerPoint ...
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