Product Description

Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 Step By Step Uk

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33932 in Books
• Brand: Microsoft
• Published on: 2007-01-08
• Platform: No Operating System
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 11.02 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

About the Author
Joyce Cox has over 20 years' experience in the development of training
materials about technical subjects for non-technical audiences, and is the
author of dozens of books about Office and Windows technologies. Joyce is
the Vice President of Online Training Solutions, Inc. (OTSI). She was
President of and principle author for Online Press, where she developed the
Quick Course series of computer training books for beginning and
intermediate adult learners. She was also the first managing editor of
Microsoft Press, an editor for Sybex, and an editor for the University of
California. Joan Preppernau is the author of over a dozen books about
Windows and Office, including the popular Microsoft Windows XP Step by
Step. Having learned about computers literally at her father's knee, Joan's
wide-ranging experiences in various facets of the computer industry
contribute to her enthusiasm for producing interesting, useful, and
understandable training materials. Joan is the President of Online Training
Solutions, Inc. (OTSI) and an avid telecommuter. The power of the Internet
and an obsession with technology have made it possible for Joan to live and
work in New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, and various locations in the US
during the past 15 years. Having finally discovered the delights of a daily
dose of sunshine, Joan has recently settled in San Diego with her husband,
Barry, and their daughter, Trinity.

Customer Reviews

Limited usefullness
This book works fine as long as everything works fine! But how often do we not encounter problems that are not described in the manual and that you won't find described in the help-function neither online nor offline? Sadly this book doesn't help much either. It describes how to do all sorts of things, but when something unexpected happens, you're on your own. For instance, after I add sound to a slide and want the slide to fade into another slide, there's a white slide in between and I suddenly have to use two clicks to move on. There's no way this book will help you with problems of this kind. So unless you only want to do very basic things in Powerpoint, find a better book.

Not great, not bad
Anyone that's gone between Office 2003 and 2007 will have noticed a huge difference in layout.

Owing to this, I wanted a book to pickup and quickly see how to do what I did before. I'm all for experimenting with software before consulting the manual (I'm a guy!) but as someone who writes training material, this book was great for answering questions about changes to templates, etc.

The Help files in PowerPoint are very good and will tell you most things but I got this book to quickly refer to specific topics, see how things are done and get on with it.

For that reason, I'd recommend it. However, if you want to save some money, use the Help files. I'd also say it's good for beginners as most things are described with screenshots.