title: Using Mathematica to build presentations and documents
body: <p>I use Mma mainly to solve relatively small problems.</p>
  
  <p>I want to start using it also to prepare my <strong>presentations and documents</strong>, but I am having troubles to learn how to do it from the embedded help, and I guess some good resources may be available elsewhere.</p>
  
  <p>Do you know any useful pointers (books, papers, videos ...)?</p>
  
  <p>Do you have a "bag of tricks" to post here?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong></p>
  
  <p>This question received two answers so far (@mzabsky's and Mr.Wizard's) and although both are useful, perhaps my concerns are much more basic. So I am posting an example of the <em>kind</em> of things I am unable to do (or understand how to discern how others did them).</p>
  
  <p>I took the following example from <a href="http://www.mathematica-journal.com/issue/v10i1/contents/graph_draw/graph_draw.nb" rel="noreferrer">The Mathematica Journal</a> (the notebook at the left on the following image - click on the image to see full size):</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iPBRD.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iPBRD.png" alt="Enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>So, some issues, just to get the idea of my troubles:</p>
  
  <p>1) I copied the text to my .nb on the right, formatted it with the same style (text), but the appearance is different, so I guess the style definition is different. How can I copy the style definitions from one .nb to the other?</p>
  
  <p>2) The table below the text block doesn't have an attached style. How was it formatted? Where is the background color defined?</p>
  
  <p>I would like pointers to read (or videos to look, or whatever) about these issues. I don't want you to write down here a book on Mathematica formatting!</p>
  
  <h2>Summary of the links posted in answers</h2>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2007/Jul/msg00914.html" rel="noreferrer">A Mathgroup thread</a> (John Browne) and <a href="http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2007/Jul/msg00832.html" rel="noreferrer">here</a> (David Park and
  Selwyn Hollis)</li>
  <li><a href="http://bobueland.com/2008/06/14/create-a-style-sheet/" rel="noreferrer">Advice from Bob Ueland</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/PalettesMenu.html" rel="noreferrer">The Writing Assistant Palette</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/" rel="noreferrer">David Park's notes</a></li>
  <li><a href="ftp://ftp.physics.uwa.edu.au/pub/MATH2200/2010/" rel="noreferrer">Simon's documents</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.mathematica-users.org/webMathematica/wiki/wiki.jsp?pageName=Notebook:Tips.nb" rel="noreferrer">Tips for Mathematica SlideShow presenters</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://library.wolfram.com/tips/notebookformatting.html" rel="noreferrer">Notebook formatting</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Conferences/7564/" rel="noreferrer">Presentations with Mathematica</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/#Tutorials-Notebooks" rel="noreferrer">Videos</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/TechNotes/5299/" rel="noreferrer">Tips for Mathematica Slide Show Presenters</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/6282/" rel="noreferrer">How to - Automatic Slide Show</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/howto/CreateALectureNotebook.html" rel="noreferrer">Create a Lecture Notebook</a></li>
  </ul>