Any computer techies out there?

[aemsee]

Simple really. New job teaching for DCX starts in January, and will involve alot of powerpoint stuff. Never used it. Is there a good place to learn it online?

[Wildman]

Wow........New Job? What, no more smashed fingers? Sounds like a shirt and tie job.

 

Congratulation :thumbsup:

 

:typing: Might want to try "Video Professor" Or

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Let-our-professor-t ... dZViewItem

 

Good Luck with your new position ;) and drop me a note.

[jage]

I always start with an O'Rielly book and read it straight through about 3/4 of the way. O'Rielly is the best computer language book publisher I've found, over and over again for many things. Not sure they've got a PPT book though... maybe one on MS Office will have some info.

 

Good luck!

[88MJay]

Powerpoint is pretty easy. I use it everyday for my job. Just get a copy of the program and start making slides. The help menu is pretty good. Spend an hour or so a day playing around and you'll have it figured out by the time you need to start using it for work. :hateputers:

[Stumpy]

you can download a 60 day trail from Microsoft website and just play around with it. My wife had to use a few time for school and had little problems using it.

[aemsee]

Thanks for all the responses. I actually have the full suite of MS Office already, just need some keyboard time I guess.

[jage]

If you're familiar with Word almost everything is the same, you'll see the same button bars and stuff. It will look real familiar once you get in it.

 

Also grab some other peoples' presentation files (like ask the office for the kind of stuff they've had in the past) and you can use them as templates and also just for general deconstruction.

 

Good luck, let us know how it goes!