On 3/26/05 11:00 PM, in article
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The only current book specifically for PowerPoint 2004 or X on the Mac would
be the 60-page section on PowerPoint in The Missing Manual: Office 2004 for
Macintosh (and the Office X version of the book too), which is pretty basic,
plus some other references in there to Office-wide features. There are
several books on PowerPoint for Windows which will be 90-95% accurate for
the Mac versions too. Most of what you'd find in a book updated for PPT 2003
would apply to 2004, and for 2002 (XP) would apply to both X and 2004. Even
a book for 2000 would still be mostly correct. The first 30 books out of
"1,323" which show up on a search for Books/PowerPoint on
www.amazon.com
look very relevant - I gave up at that point.
I'm sure people here will have some recommendations. One of the search
results (no. 21, a Visual QuickStart Guide) was even for 2002/2001 for both
Windows and Mac, so must have some Mac-specific sections, but would be
somewhat out of date for OS X and X/2004. In fact PowerPoint Macintosh
search has "41" results but they're all more ancient even than that book.
Several are specifically for older Mac versions, including one called
"Essentials of PowerPoint 2001 for the Macintosh" by Kevin a. Siegel, that
gets a 5-star rating, and even older ones for 98. I expect at least one or
two should be updating some day. But I'm sure you'd get more relevant info
out of one of the many books on PPT 2002 or 2003 after reading the
introductory MM for Mac-specific content. Anyway, someone's who's actually
read a few of them will probably be along in a bit.
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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
