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PowerPoint Comprehensive 2003: Microsoft PowerPoint 2003

Pat R. Graves

ISBN: 0072254440
Copyright year: 2005

Preface

Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003: A Professional Approach, Comprehensive Student Edition is written to help you master Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows. The text takes you step-by-step through the features that you’re likely to use in both your personal and business life.

Case Study

Learning the features of PowerPoint is one component of the text, and applying what you learn is another. That is why a Case Study was created and appears throughout the text. The Case Study offers the opportunity to learn Word in a realistic business context. Take the time to read the Case Study near the front of this book. The Case Study is about Good 4U restaurant, a fictional business located in New York City, New York. All the documents for this course involve the Good 4U restaurant.

Organization of the Text

The text includes six units. Each unit is divided into lessons, and there are 15 lessons, each building on previously learned procedures. This building block approach, together with the Case Study and the following features, enables you to maximize the learning process.

Features of the Text

	Objectives are listed for each lesson.
	Required skills for the Microsoft Office Specialist Exam are listed for each lesson.
	The estimated time required to complete each lesson (up to the “Using Online Help”) is stated.
	Within a lesson, each heading corresponds to an objective.
	Easy-to-follow exercises emphasize “learning by doing.”
	Key terms are italicized and defined as they are encountered.
	Extensive graphics display screen contents.
	Toolbar buttons and keyboard keys are shown in the text when used.
	Large toolbar buttons in the margins provide easy-to-see references.
	Lessons contain important Notes, useful Tips, and helpful Reviews.
	Using Online Help introduces you to a Help topic related to lesson content.
	A Lesson Summary reviews the important concepts taught in the lesson.
	A Command Summary lists the commands taught in the lesson.
	Concepts Review includes true/false, short answer, and critical thinking questions that focus on lesson content.
	Skills Review provides skill reinforcement for each lesson.
	Lesson Applications ask you to apply your skills in a more challenging way.
	On Your Own exercises let you apply your skills creatively.
	Unit Applications give you the opportunity to use the skills you learn in a unit.
	Includes an Appendix of Microsoft Office Specialist Certification standards, a Glossary, and an Index.

Microsoft Office Specialist Certification Program

The Microsoft Office Specialist certification program offers PowerPoint certification at the “Specialist” level. This certification can be a valuable asset in any job search. For more information about this Microsoft program, go to www.microsoft.com/officespecialist . For a complete listing of the skills for the PowerPoint 2003 “Specialist” certification exam (and a correlation to the lessons in the text), see the appendix, “Microsoft Office Specialist Certification.”

Professional Approach Web Site

Visit the Professional ApproachWeb site at www.mhteched.com/pas to access additional materials including tutorials, additional projects, online quizzes, and more!

Conventions Used in the Text

This text uses a number of conventions to help you learn the program and save your work.

	Text to be keyed appears either in boldface or as a separate figure.
	Filenames appear in boldface.
	Options that you choose from menus and dialog boxes appear in a font that is similar to the on-screen font; for example, “Choose Print from the File menu.” (The underline means you can press Alt and key the letter to choose the option.)
	You are asked to save each document with your initials followed by the exercise name. For example, an exercise might end with this instruction: “Save the document as *[your initials]5-12*.Documents are saved in folders for each lesson.

If You Are Unfamiliar with Windows

If you are unfamiliar with Windows, review the “Windows Tutorial” available on the Professional ApproachWeb site at www.mhteched.com/pas before beginning Lesson 1. This tutorial provides a basic overview of the operating system and shows you how to use the mouse. You might also want to review “File Management” (also on the Professional ApproachWeb site) to get more comfortable with files and folders.

Screen Differences

As you practice each concept, illustrations of the screens help you follow the instructions. Don’t worry if your screen is slightly different from the illustration. These differences are due to variations in system and computer configurations.

Acknowledgments

We thank the technical editors and reviewers of this text for their valuable assistance: Eileen Mullin, EK Choong, Darren Choong, Craig Leonard, Susan Olson, Northwest Technical College, East Grand Forks, MN; John Walker, Doña Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM; Mary Davey, Computer Learning Net-work, Camp Hill, PA.

Thanks to all members of the Professional Approach Series team at McGraw-Hill for their commitment and dedication to this project. Special thanks to Jenny Malnick, Project Editor, for coordinating all the pieces of this puzzle and to Elizabeth, John, Carie, Tabi, Kelly, Lucie, Tara, Jean, Peter, Dick, Jim, Melinda, and Kathleen on the production and illustration teams for creating such an attractive and effective textbook. We hope that everyone learning from this textbook will find it easy to use and understand.

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