Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010: Getting Started With PowerPoint With Lots of Tips and Tricks
H. Albert Napier, Ph.D. and Ollie N. Rivers
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Description
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010: Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010 With Lots of Tips and Tricks is a three-lesson basic level course that guides you through creating and opening PowerPoint presentations, inserting, reorganizing, and deleting slides, applying a design theme, and switching between different PowerPoint views. You learn how to insert various types of content – tables, charts, text boxes, shapes, clip art, sound clips – on slides. You also learn how run a slide show and how to preview and print audience handouts.
You learn how to add animation and transition effects to slides and how to embed and link an Excel workbook object to a slide using copy and paste. Then you learn how to send a PowerPoint presentation to Word to create audience handouts. Finally, you learn how to insert new slides based on a Word outline document.
The PowerPoint 2010 Office Fluent user interface, originally introduced in Office 2007, is very different from the PowerPoint 2003 (and earlier PowerPoint versions) user interface. Therefore, you must use PowerPoint 2010 to complete this course. Although this is a basic level course, experienced PowerPoint users switching to PowerPoint 2010 will also benefit from this course, which can help them become more familiar with the new PowerPoint Office Fluent user interface and become familiar with the new File tab and Backstage view.
Prerequisites
There are no slide show creation prerequisites for this course; however, you should be able to enter text and numbers in an Excel worksheet to complete the charting activity in Lesson 2. Experience working with software in a Windows operating system environment is also a plus. You must have access to Microsoft® Excel® 2010 and Microsoft® Word® 2010 in addition to PowerPoint 2010 to complete the activities in Lesson 3.
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Creating a Simple Presentation
- Lesson 2: Enhancing a Presentation
- Lesson 3: Integrating PowerPoint with Excel and Word
Author Biographies
H. Albert Napier, Ph.D.Dr. Napier is a successful professor, author and entrepreneur. Currently, he serves as Professor of Management in the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University, where he teaches graduate level courses on entrepreneurship, information technology and e-business.
He is a co-author of more than 60 books on Microsoft Office application software. His books have been used as the textbooks for courses in hundreds of universities, colleges, and corporations. Dr. Napier is also co-author of additional computer software training courses that are provided on the Internet.
Dr. Napier is also co-author of Creating a Winning E-Business, E-Business Technologies, Business Planning: 25 Keys to a Successful Business Plan, and Preparing an Entrepreneurial Business Plan. He is currently completing another book on the entrepreneurial process.
He is an owner of the successful e-business town Favorites that provides on-line grocery shopping for candies, condiments and everyday food items that are hard to find where you live. The company is located at www.hometownfavorites.com.
In addition to his duties at Rice, Dr. Napier was a principal for 20 years of Napier & Judd, Inc. The company provided consulting services in IT strategy, planning, and systems development to more than 200 organizations and trained more than 150,000 participants on personal computer software applications. Some of the industries served by Napier & Judd, Inc. included energy, health, education, finance, banking, distribution, and accounting.
He is the author of more than 25 articles related to information technology, human-computer interface, and applications of computer based decision processes in business.
Dr. Napier holds a BA degree in Mathematics and Economics, an MBA degree, and a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration, all from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ollie N. Rivers
Ollie N. Rivers has more than 20 years' business experience in financial and administrative management and more than 10 years’ experience as a corporate trainer. She is a co-author of two e-business textbooks and a Web design textbook, and is a contributing author on more than 15 software package and Internet textbooks. Ms. Rivers has also developed and delivered numerous classroom and online continuing education seminars for CPAs. Ms. Rivers holds an MBA and a BS in Accounting and Management from Houston Baptist University.
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