Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 - Patrice-Anne Rutledge

Special Edition Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 is created for experienced users who want to be able to use PowerPoint's more sophisticated features, as well as its basic ones. Because creating successful presentations is more than just becoming a PowerPoint power user, included is a special section in the book on presentation skills. With the addition of this special section, it makes this title uniquely different from all other titles out in the marketplace.

Topics covered include:

• Working with tables
• Collaborating on presentations
• Working with speech tools
• Adding movies and sound
• Working with PowerPoint in the Web
• Creating macros
• Creating and editing Web scripts

Patrice-Anne Rutledge is the best-selling author of more than 20 computer and business books. In addition, Patrice has contributed to numerous international publications, developed the columns "Global Business Today" and "eCommunicate," and currently manages a large global communications department for a leading Internet software company near San Francisco. She has usedand has trained others to usePowerPoint for many years, designing presentations for meetings, seminars, trade shows, and worldwide audiences. She can be reached at [email protected] or through her Web site (http://www.patricerutledge.com).

Tom Mucciolo, founder and president of MediaNet, is an accountant turned actor turned author and an acclaimed speaker on presentation skills. He is an expert at enhancing the key components of communication, including the message (scripting), the media (visual design), and the mechanics (delivery). His seminars and workshops have been rated as "exceptional" and "entertaining," and many consider Tom one of the country's top presentation specialists. His one-to-one coaching sessions, ranging from basic to advanced, develop individual style and prepare a person for presenting in a very visual world.