PowerPoint is pretty easy to learn if all you want to do is toss up a few bulleted lists. Anyone who has had some basic word-processing training can do that.
The difficulty comes when you want to start doing things that aren't quite so ho-hum-when you really want to motivate and excite an audience with your presentation materials. PowerPoint certainly has enough powerful features to help you with that, but most people aren't familiar enough with the deeper levels of the program to access those features easily-and by "easily," I mean without wasting an entire workday fiddling with it!
That's where this book comes in.
First of all, who this book is not for: it's not for someone who is new to computers and needs to be told how to double-click a mouse or open a menu. There are a lot of books on the market today for those types of users, and I won't try to write another one of those here.
This book is something you may not have seen before-a no-nonsense, no-jargon guide for the intermediate to advanced user. It won't insult your intelligence, but it also won't go way over your head or assume that you are a programmer. It simply describes and illustrates the most useful advanced features of PowerPoint and provides tips for implementing them in your own work.