What Is MS PowerPoint?
Microsoft Office PowerPoint is a presentation software that can be used by businesses, teachers, students or trainers for creating effective presentations. This software is a part of the Microsoft Office suite, which includes other popular applications, such as Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Access and Outlook. The MS PowerPoint can be looked at as a technological progress making overhead projectors, transparent slides or whiteboards obsolete. The software is designed to work with both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
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Presentations
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PowerPoint presentations are made up of slides that can have text, graphs, spreadsheets, animation and pictures. The application contains custom templates for different types of presentations and can be altered. However, you are also able to create, save and reuse your own templates if you cannot find one that suites your needs best.
You can set different transition sequences between slides to make presentation more entertaining. Slides move along with a simple click of a mouse or can also be set to change automatically.
PowerPoint in Education
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Although whiteboards and overhead projectors are still widely used in education, PowerPoint makes a much more entertaining and efficient alternative. Presentations can be saved on any secondary storage device at home, such as flash memory cards, and then used in a class project by students. Teachers can also use the software when presenting a new subject to a class. One convenient feature of PowerPoint is that you can change it at any time within seconds, which is not as easy with transparent slides or messy whiteboards.
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PowerPoint in Business
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PowerPoint may also used effectively in a corporate environment. Whether you need to make a presentation to a client, introduce a new product to your employees or conduct a training seminar, there is no better way to do so than using this presentation software. Many conference rooms are now equipped with a projector that can use a laptop as an input device. This makes it easy to go back and forth between slides when audience members have questions or you pause to explain a certain topic. This application can even be used with webcasts for presentations around the globe.
PowerPoint and other MS Office Suite Applications
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Since PowerPoint is a part of Microsoft Office suite, it is easy to integrate both text and spreadsheets from Microsoft Word or Excel into a slide. It is even possible to create a complex graph in Excel and then import it into PowerPoint. This compatibility further enhances the effectiveness of a presentation, since you can place all your materials into just one file.
Conclusion
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 even allows users to create presentations together even if they are in different locations. It can be achieved live using Microsoft Groove 2007, which is a meeting workspace. This advance in the MS technology allows for a much more efficient and faster way to create presentations for either business or educational institutions, given today's global economy.
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