Powerpoint

From SPARK

PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is one of the most prevalent forms of persuasion software used to aid people in making live presentations. It requires a computer and a projector if a large audience is to view the presentation. It is widely used by business people, educators, students, and trainers.

PowerPoint offers word processing, drawing, graphing, and presentation management tools which are designed to be easy to use.

The following gives you a quick overview of what you can do in PowerPoint: [1]

When you create a presentation using PowerPoint, the presentation is made up of a series of slides. The slides that you create using PowerPoint can also be presented as overhead transparencies or 35mm slides.

• In addition to slides, you can print audience handouts, outlines, and speaker's notes.

• You can format all the slides in a presentation using the powerful Slide Master, which will be covered in the tutorial.

• You can keep your entire presentation in a single file -- all your slides, speaker's notes, and audience handouts.

• You can import what you have created in other Microsoft products, such as Word and Excel, into any of your slides.