FEEL THE POWER OF POWERPOINT

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system.

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT 2007

PowerPoint is used by business people, educators, students, and trainers. From Microsoft Office 2003 to 2008 for Mac, Microsoft revised the branding to emphasize PowerPoint's place within the office suite, calling it Microsoft Office PowerPoint instead of just Microsoft PowerPoint. The current versions are Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 for Windows and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2008 for Mac.

History

The original version of this program was created by Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin of Forethought, Inc..Originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called "Presenter". In 1987, it was renamed to "PowerPoint" due to problems with trademarks, the idea for the name coming from Robert Gaskins.In August of the same year, Forethought was bought by Microsoft for $14 million USD ($26.8 million in present-day terms), and became Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, which continued to further develop the software.PowerPoint changed significantly with PowerPoint 97. Prior to PowerPoint 97, presentations were linear, always proceeding from one slide to the next.

Operation

PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of individual pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector, a device that can be seen as obsolete, within the context of widespread use of PowerPoint and other presentation software. Slides may contain text, graphics, movies, and other objects, which may be arranged freely on the slide. PowerPoint, however, facilitates the use of a consistent style in a presentation using a template or "Slide Master".

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The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a computer, or navigated through at the command of the presenter. For larger audiences the computer display is often projected using a video projector. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts.

BENEFITS OF POWERPOINT:

I know one great program that can help us organize a great presentation that is Microsoft's PowerPoint. Here are the benefits that I have found by using PowerPoint to make my presentations go smoothly and efficiently.

• The first benefit that I have found by using PowerPoint is that it helps me to organize my presentations in an easy way.It helps me to quickly put together my presentation with a little bit of familiarity. I can literally put the program together for a presentation in about fifteen minutes and takes longer if i want to fine tune the program.
• The second benefit that I have found by using PowerPoint is that I am able to put together an excellent slide show with various arrows and other leading images into pointing out the key points in the topic that I am trying to cover. So if I am trying to point out that I want to make an emphasis on the price for an item then I will have the regular slide come up then have an arrow that when I click the next button will point directly to that or make it flash or do something that will draw people's attention.
• The third benefit of using PowerPoint is that I do not have to memorize my presentation like I would or confuse people by telling them what page to look at in a printed off presentation. So I will be able to use the PowerPoint as a reference point that will give me a kind of cheat sheet to see my topic and remember what I am talking about.

 I love using PowerPoint because of the ease of use, the ability to draw attention to certain objects that I want to point out, and I do not have to memorize my presentation.