Get up and running with this full-color guide to PowerPoint2013!PowerPoint, the number one presentation software, has beenrevised and improved with the introduction of Microsoft Office2013. With this all-new, full-color book by your side, you willlearn how to take full advantage of all of PowerPoint's powerfuland dynamic capabilities. Bestselling veteran For Dummies,author Doug Lowe breaks it all down so that you can create apowerful and effective slideshow presentation with the newwide-screen theme and variant that incorporates videos, pictures,and shapes, and allows you to create customized icons usingpowerful tools.* Shows you how to create presentations with pizzazz using thenew collection of themes, and then helps you align shapes, textboxes, and graphics* Zeroes in on all of PowerPoint's updated features, such aszooming in and out smoothly, switch slides easily (in or out ofsequence), and projecting to a second screen* Explains how to Place and track comments next to the textyou're discussing so everyone can see who replied to whom, andwhen* Highlights ways to work with hyperlinks, create web pages withPowerPoint, video edit, and much morePowerPoint 2013 For Dummies points you to the power ofthis updated application so that you can create effective andimpressive presentations.

Introduction 1Part I: Getting Started with PowerPoint 2013 7Chapter 1: Welcome to PowerPoint 2013 9Chapter 2: Editing Slides 33Chapter 3: Working in Outline View 49Chapter 4: Proofi ng Your Presentations 55Chapter 5: Don't Forget Your Notes! 65Chapter 6: Show Time! 71Part II: Creating Great-Looking Slides 87Chapter 7: All about Fonts and Text Formatting 89Chapter 8: Designing Your Slides 105Chapter 9: Animating Your Slides 119Chapter 10: Masters of the Universe Meet the Templates of Doom135Part III: Embellishing Your Slides 155Chapter 11: Inserting Pictures 157Chapter 12: Drawing on Your Slides 175Chapter 13: Charting for Fun and Profit 193Chapter 14: Working with SmartArt 211Chapter 15: Lights! Camera! Action! (Adding Sound and Video)223Chapter 16: More Things to Insert on Your Slides 235Part IV: Working with Others 261Chapter 17: Collaborating in the Cloud 263Chapter 18: Using a Slide Library and Other Ways to Reuse Slides275Chapter 19: Exporting Your Presentation to Other Formats 281Part V: The Part of Tens 293Chapter 20: Ten PowerPoint Commandments 295Chapter 21: Ten Tips for Creating Readable Slides 299Chapter 22: Ten Tips for Creating Readable Slides 303Index 307