Experienced PowerPoint presenters will find the book full of coverage of the new Microsoft Office user interface for PowerPoint, including the innovative Ribbon. Anyone using PowerPoint will appreciate suggestions on how to avoid really bad PowerPoint, beyond bullet points, and involve the audience by creating PowerPoint presentations that do not suck. CD-ROM supplied with this book contains more than 500 ready to use PowerPoint templates, backgrounds and themes from some of the most famous designers of professional PowerPoint Some topics covered include: Getting familiar with PowerPoint, the new tabs and Ribbon, the Office menu, SmartArt, and PowerPoint views Delivering an effective presentation from identifying your audience and purpose through the development of content and training to prepare space and equipment and finally getting on stage Working with slides, text, and text formatting including the right font for your presentation format Fitting out slides and presentations with layouts, masters, backgrounds, and the new PowerPoint 2007 Themes Working with table and included tabluar materials and data from Word or Excel Drawing, working with photos and graphs, clip art, and the new PowerPoint 2007 SmartArt's Adding sound effects, music, video, and soundtracks Creating animations and transitions Supporting your audience and presentation with handouts, speaker notes, and outlines Working with live PowerPoint presentation tool including on-screen controls, backup slides, custom shows, preparing your presentation for use on another computer, and preparing your AV equipment or projectors Building other presentation types including self-running kiosk and a web and CD / DVD presentations, Share and collaborate on presentations on a LAN or using the new SharePoint Slide Library 4 special labs to help you put all your PowerPoint skills to us in great content including presenting content with out Bullet lists CD-ROM included with this book contains more than 500 ready-to-use PowerPoint templates, background back and themes from some of the most famous designers of professional PowerPoint