Create Effective, Eye-Catching Presentations -- Quickly and Easily! Not artistic? Not techno-savvy? Not a problem! You too can create dynamic presentations that will blow your audience away. With the expert advice of Doug Lowe, you'll find out how to organize, illustrate, and deliver your ideas with maximum impact using PowerPoint's easy-to-use built-in features. Whether you're preparing a slide show for a conference room, a sales presentation for your laptop, or a demo for your Web site, the tips and tricks you discover here will leave them saying "Wow!"

Inside, find helpful advice on how to:

• Master PowerPoint basics -- and start creating terrific-looking presentations today
• Use PowerPoint's slide masters, templates, and macros to save time and develop a consistent look
• Select a color palette that maximizes the impact of your presentation -- and create graphics, tables, and charts that drive your message home
• Speed up production with Tri-Pane view, the new feature that lets you toggle between slides, outlines, and notes
• Dazzle your audience with clip art, sounds, video, and other cool multimedia effects
• Make sure everything runs smoothly when you're broadcasting slides from your laptop
• Save your presentation in HTML format and post it on your Web site

The term PowerPoint has become synonymous withfancy-schmancy, computer presentations; in fact, PowerPoint is nowa major tool in boardrooms everywhere. And if you haven't beeninstructed to create a PowerPoint presentation, it's only a matterof time before you will be

But how do you get started with PowerPoint? How do you get thoseideas in your head or on your legal pad into a slick presentationformat? Despite Microsoft's valiant effort to make PowerPoint easyto use, it's still one of Microsoft's most complicated programs.And that's where PowerPoint 2000 For Windows For Dummiessteps in to help.

Veteran Dummies author Doug Lowe introduces you to thepower of PowerPoint 2000 in his typically humorous andeasy-to-understand style. This book not only shows you how to getstarted with PowerPoint 2000, but it also shows you how to actuallydo what you need to do - without all the geekyjargon of the standard computer manual. Here's just a few of thetopics covered in PowerPoint 2000 For Windows ForDummies:
* Creating a brand-spanking-new presentation
* Adding text to your slides
* Editing and printing your presentations
* Formatting your slides: From selecting colors to usingtemplates
* Using clip art and drawing your own masterpieces
* Incorporating charts, graphs, and animation into yourpresentation
* Including Web links and serving up your presentation on theWeb
* Collaborating with others on a presentation
* Top Ten lists on the new features of PowerPoint 2000, fixingthings that go wrong, and powerful PowerPoint shortcuts

So whether you're an experienced PowerPoint guru or a newbie whohas a presentation due by the end of the week (and it's Thursday ), you'll find all you need in PowerPoint 2000 For Windows ForDummies.