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Summary: You'll be set after this book
Review: As a professional consultant in the area of presentation design and development, I've learned over the years how easy it is for even very large clients to create very bad presentations. Professional presentation design is an illusive goal for most companies. Finkelstein's book delivers a good balance of thorough, well-illustrated description, pages full of 4-color examples and contributions from professionals in the field, which add a real world perspective to the textbook instructions. It's my experience that most presentation designers only get a handle on a small fraction of PowerPoint's capability. Books like this one will propel you well beyond the basics. I would recommend it highly. (For those not finding a specific download, it's a bit like focusing on the handprints on the glass front door of the Smithsonian - you'll never discover the true value within if you can't get by the small things.)
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Summary: You'll be set after this book
Review: Here's what I like about this book. The color photos really made the examples come alive. There are all this tips in boxes throughout the book. I learned excellent ideas I would never learn on my own. It is so easily organized that I could find what I needed very quickly. I understood her writing. She writes so I understood her explanations. Mostly I like that when I'm trying to figure out how to do something and feel frustrated I can find the answer in her book.
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Summary: Wow! A PowerPoint book that teaches design & technique.
Review: I present and coach presentation design and development as well as delivery dynamics. This is THE book I tell my attendees to get open on there desktops. Here's why: What most authors of PowerPoint books forget is that PowerPoint is a tool for building a presentation that will be DELIVERED. Finkelstein takes the time to make that clear and presents her ideas and steps as though there will be an audience in your future. Thought is give to the prespective of the audience.
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Summary: The PowerPoint Guide to Buy
Review: There is a lot to keep in mind when preparing and delivering your presentation. This book is a great guide to help most create and deliver a presentation that will shine. I found the coverage of PowerPoint comprehensive. Everything I wanted to do was there, plus suggestions and tips for better impact and saving time. The language is friendly and did not make me feel like a child or dummy. The detail is there when I need it. The use of headings, colour and cutouts let me jump quickly to the parts I need.
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Summary: Does not tell about the fun things.
Review: This is a good book for presentations. However, I want to know how to transfer slide shows and such to video, CD's. This book does not even mention that it can be done. I know it can, I've seen it done. I'll keep looking until I find a book that tells how. Not everybody uses PowerPoint just for business.
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Summary: Will really get you started
Review: When I got this book, I had just moved from a Mac to a PC environment, had just acquired Office 2000, and had a deadline to create a medium sized Power Point presentation within a week. Using the advice in this book, I was able to pull it off with little frustration.If you've never used Power Point before: the book has a great index, is well organized, and gives many useful tips both for putting the presentation together, and for giving it when you're done. I used a lot of scanned graphics in my presentation. This section of the book was very helpful to me. Also, of course, the section on creating your first presentation. Highly recommended.
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