TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:RE: PowerPoint for the Unenthused From:"Kevin Christy" <kevinchristy -at- socal -dot- rr -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:51:23 -0800
Keith:
Decide what skills you need to develop (animation, slide effects, templates,
drawing, etc.) and find the book that covers the topics that you need.
Advanced users become advanced, in my experience, because they learned how
to accomplish in the program what they needed in order to get the job done.
So, decide what the job needs, and then you know what you need to learn.
That's helped me to target my book buying to the ones that actually
contained answers to the questions that I had. Even some of the 600+page
books may not cover what you're looking for. You may find that between a
Dummies book, a massive Office anthology, and a narrow-segment Power Point
VBA book from O'Reilly, you can cover what you need to learn. It's unlikely
that any one book will meet your needs if you have a complex project.
Although I must say, PowerPoint is the one program that I never really did
much reading on, mainly because I think the minimalist approach works best
with slide presentations. Loaded-up, multicolor, flashy, cheesy PowerPoint
presentations are a pet peeve of mine. Hence, most of PowerPoint's advanced
features don't interest me.
Kevin
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Now's a great time to buy RoboHelp! You'll get SnagIt screen capture
software and a $200 onsite training voucher FREE when you buy RoboHelp
Office or RoboHelp Enterprise. Hurry, this offer expires February 28, 2002. www.ehelp.com/techwr
---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.
