Advanced Microsoft® Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out

When Your Document Lives in PowerPoint

The secret to PowerPoint presentations that are easy to create, edit, and manage is this: PowerPoint is easy. Really, that’s it. PowerPoint provides the tools to make your work simple and straightforward. Just use the available tools, and the time you spend in PowerPoint will be downright pleasant—quick, simple, and painless—and the presentations you create may be far better than you expect.

But, there’s a catch (c’mon, you knew there would be). If you don’t use the available features—if you insist on using workarounds and overcomplicated solutions rather than learning to use the tools that PowerPoint benevolently provides—it just might smite your presentation. It may even seem as if PowerPoint is laughing ...