Even a beginner should be able to cook up a pretty good presentation after viewing this. PowerPoint's ease of use has something to do with that. Shows keyboard alternatives early on, but after the mouse methods were used. Good at showing the difference between the program and the document window - a point users often trip on. In my department, most PowerPoint users don't want the trouble of dragging a laptop to presentations or class, and opt for transparencies instead.
Nothing is said on creating different size handouts.
Volume seems to go up and down at various points - not a very good mixing job. In the first example slide show, they go through the whole thing and read the contents of every slide. No bookmarking feature, even though the sections are short enough that this problbably doesn't matter. If you wanted to do a certain thing, you'd have to search through each section. Although this sounds like a minor quibble, this CD-ROM is so slow in some parts, it's virtually unusable.