Make a splash with these presentation tips and techniques

Anyone can create a presentation, but it takes more than bullet lists to make an impact. In this power-packed book, you'll learn how to create professional-quality slides that will captivate an audience with photographs, charts, and sophisticated transition and animation effects. You'll also learn how to deliver a first-rate presentation experience to your audience, whether you are speaking live at a podium, delivering content online, or distributing self-running DVDs. In this book, you'll learn how to:

• Customize slide layouts, themes, and masters

• Integrate charts, photos, clip art, and more

• Engage an audience with music and narration

• Create handouts and speaker notes

• Build custom slide shows with optional hidden content

• Save slide shows in digital video format

• Broadcast or publish presentations on the Web

Use eye-catching animation effects

Easily apply color correction to photos

Create information-rich graphic objects with SmartArt

What's on the CD-ROM?

Find more than 500 professionally-designed PowerPoint templates and backgrounds that you can use in your own presentations.

See the CD Appendix in the book for details and complete system requirements.

Also in the Book

Four special project labs highlight complete presentations that show a variety of ways to create content. These labs include:

• Presenting Content without Bulleted Lists

• Adding Sound and Movement to a Presentation

• Creating a Menu-Based Navigation System

• Creating a Classroom Game

Discover what makes a great presentation

Add eye-popping graphics and multimedia

Make a connection with your audience

It's no longer enough to have slide after slide of text, bullets, and charts. It's not even enough to have good speaking skills if your PowerPoint slides bore your audience. Get the very most out of all that PowerPoint 2010 has to offer while also learning priceless tips and techniques for making good presentations in this new PowerPoint 2010 Bible. Well-known PowerPoint expert and author Faithe Wempen provides formatting tips; shows you how to work with drawings, tables, and SmartArt; introduces new collaboration tools; walks you through five special presentation labs; and more.

Coverage includes:

• A First Look at PowerPoint
• What Makes a Great Presentation?
• Creating and Saving Presentation Files
• Creating Slides and Text Boxes
• Working with Layouts, Themes, and Masters
• Formatting Paragraphs and Text Boxes
• Correcting and Improving Text
• Creating and Formatting Tables
• Drawing and Formatting Objects
• Creating SmartArt Diagrams
• Using and Organizing Clip Art
• Working with Photographic Images
• Working with Charts
• Incorporating Content from Other Programs
• Adding Sound Effects, Music, and Soundtracks
• Incorporating Motion Video
• Creating Animation Effects and Transitions
• Creating Support Materials
• Preparing for a Live Presentation
• Designing User-Interactive or Self-Running Presentations
• Preparing a Presentation for Mass Distribution
• Sharing and Collaborating
• Customizing PowerPoint
• Presenting Content Without Bulleted Lists
• Adding Sound and Movement to a Presentation
• Creating a Menu-Based Navigation System
• Creating a Classroom Game

It's the book you need to succeed with PowerPoint 2010 and your next live presentation