1. Chapter 1 The Fundamentals

   1. Starting PowerPoint

   2. What's New in PowerPoint 2003?

   3. Understanding the PowerPoint Program Screen

   4. Using Menus

   5. Using Toolbars and Creating a New Presentation

   6. Filling Out Dialog Boxes

   7. Keystroke and Right Mouse Button Shortcuts

   8. Opening a Presentation

   9. Saving and Closing a Presentation and Exiting PowerPoint

   10. Creating a New Presentation with the AutoContent Wizard

   11. Creating a Blank Presentation and a Presentation from a Template

   12. Moving Around in Your Presentations

   13. Viewing Your Presentation

   14. Printing Your Presentation

   15. Getting Help

   16. Changing the Office Assistant and Using the "What's This" Button

   17. Chapter One Review

2. Chapter 2 Editing a Presentation

   1. Inserting Slides and Text

   2. Using the Outline Pane

   3. Editing Text

   4. Selecting, Replacing, and Deleting Text

   5. Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text

   6. Using Undo, Redo, and Repeat

   7. Checking Your Spelling

   8. Finding and Replacing Information

   9. Viewing a Presentation's Outline

   10. Rearranging a Presentation's Outline

   11. Inserting Symbols and Special Characters

   12. Working in Slide Sorter View

   13. Adding Notes to Your Slides

   14. Working with Multiple Windows

   15. Collecting and Pasting Multiple Items

   16. File Management

   17. Understanding Smart Tags

   18. Recovering Your Presentations

   19. Chapter Two Review

3. Chapter 3 Formatting Your Presentation

   1. Formatting Fonts with the Formatting Toolbar

   2. Advanced Font Formatting with the Font Dialog Box

   3. Using the Format Painter

   4. Applying a Template's Formatting

   5. Using the Slide Master

   6. Choosing a Color Scheme

   7. Changing the Background of Your Slides

   8. Working with Bulleted and Numbered Lists

   9. Changing Paragraph Alignment and Line Spacing

   10. Adding Headers and Footers

   11. Working with Tabs and Indents

   12. Changing the Page Setup

   13. Chapter Three Review

4. Chapter 4 Drawing and Working with Graphics

   1. Drawing on Your Slides

   2. Adding, Arranging, and Formatting Text Boxes

   3. Selecting, Resizing, Moving, and Deleting Objects

   4. Formatting Objects

   5. Inserting Clip Art

   6. Inserting and Formatting Pictures

   7. Aligning and Grouping Objects

   8. Drawing AutoShapes

   9. Flipping and Rotating Objects

   10. Layering Objects

   11. Applying Shadows and 3-D Effects

   12. Chapter Four Review

5. Chapter 5 Working with Tables and WordArt

   1. Creating a Table

   2. Working with a Table

   3. Adjusting Column Width and Row Height

   4. Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns

   5. Adding Borders to a Table

   6. Adding Shading and Fills

   7. Inserting a WordArt Object

   8. Formatting a WordArt Object

   9. Chapter Five Review

6. Chapter 6 Working with Graphs and Organization Charts

   1. Creating a Chart

   2. Modifying a Chart

   3. Selecting a Chart Type

   4. Creating an Organization Chart

   5. Modifying Your Organization Chart

   6. Formatting Your Organization Chart

   7. Chapter Six Review

7. Chapter 7 Delivering Your Presentation

   1. Delivering a Presentation on a Computer

   2. Using Slide Transitions

   3. Using an Animation Scheme

   4. Using Custom Animations

   5. Rehearsing Slide Show Timings

   6. Creating a Presentation that Runs by Itself

   7. Creating a Custom Show

   8. Packaging and Copying a Presentation to CD

   9. Viewing a Packaged Presentation

   10. Chapter Seven Review

8. Chapter 8 Working with Multimedia

   1. Inserting Sounds

   2. Adding Voice Narration to Your Slides

   3. Inserting a Movie Clip

   4. Automating the Multimedia in Your Presentation

   5. Chapter Eight Review

9. Chapter 9 Working with Other Programs and the Internet

   1. Inserting a Slide into a Microsoft Word Document

   2. Embedding a Microsoft Excel Worksheet into a Slide

   3. Modifying an Embedded Object

   4. Inserting a Linked Excel Chart

   5. Importing and Exporting an Outline

   6. Using Hyperlinks

   7. Using Action Buttons

   8. Saving a Presentation as a Web Page

   9. Viewing a Web-Based Presentation

   10. Chapter Nine Review

10. Chapter 10 Advanced Topics

    1. Hiding, Displaying, and Moving Toolbars

    2. Customizing PowerPoint's Toolbars

    3. Sending Faxes

    4. Adding Comments to a Slide

    5. Customizing PowerPoint's Default Options

    6. File Properties and Finding a File

    7. Recording a Macro

    8. Playing and Editing a Macro

    9. Chapter Ten Review

1. Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. Marlowe Shaeffer was the production editor and proofreader for PowerPoint 2003 Personal Trainer. Mary Brady and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Judy Hoer wrote the index.

The cover image of the comic book hero is an original illustration by Lou Brooks. The art of illustrator Lou Brooks has appeard on the covers of Time and Newsweek eight times, and his logo design for the game Monopoly is used throughout the world to this day. His work has also appeared in just about every major publication, and it has been animated for MTV, Nickelodeon, and HBO.

Emma Colby designed and produced the cover of this book with Adobe InDesign CS and Photoshop CS. The typefaces used on the cover are Base Twelve, designed by Zuzana Licko and issued by Emigre, Inc., and JY Comic Pro, issued by AGFA Monotype.

Melanie Wang designed the interior layout. David Futato designed the CD label. This book was converted by Andrew Savikas and Joe Wizda to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The typefaces are Minion, designed by Robert Slimbach and issued by Adobe Systems; Base Twelve and Base Nine; JY Comic Pro; and TheSansMono Condensed, designed by Luc(as) de Groot and issued by LucasFonts.

The technical illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Chris Reilley using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS.