If you’re using PowerPoint on a Mac, especially PowerPoint 2008, you should get the only book that covers it, Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies.
The authors are both Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) and experts in their field. Geetesh Bajaj, who wrote the PowerPoint section is the owner of Indezine.com, the most visited PowerPoint site on the planet. I’ve worked with him on several books and he has written several books of his own or with other authors. For that reason, I feel comfortable highly recommending this book.
Have you read it? What do you think?
Thank you for your very clear presentation on the use of shadows in PowerPoint. It may have been short, but I learned a lot just by watching it once. Knowledge is power(point), so keep up the great work. I wish you lots of success.
I went to the library and got the above book, office 2008 bible, The Office 2008 visual quickstart Guide, Office 2008 for mac for dummies by LeVitus, Office 2004- The Missing Manual, and the Office 2008 On Demand. The above book was the most confusing. Here’s an example…about 17 pages in on the section dedicated to Powerpoint the author is talking about different ways to save the file. Huh? Lets DO something first. Very poorly organized in regards to the topics for learning the program. “on demand” (in spite of typos and grammatical errors) Visual quickstart and the “Bible” were… Read more »
For the future, you should know that all Dummies books are reference books rather than tutorials. So, if you want to follow along and actually create a project, look for a book that’s a tutorial. The Dummies concept is that you don’t read the book; instead, when you need to know how to do something, you find the section you need, read the steps, and get in and out quickly. It’s great for some people, but others like the tutorial approach better.