What is the Powerpoint program?

Question

I was wondering what it was...I have heard people mention it, and now wondering what it was. Thanks!

Answer 1

Powerpoint is a program through Microsoft office that allows you to make presentation slideshows with cool colors, animations, and pictures. It is a very helpful program fior students and the working person.

Answer 2

Microsoft Office PowerPoint is a presentation program developed for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. Being widely used by business people, educators, and trainers, it is among the most prevalent forms of persuasion technology. It is a component of the Microsoft Office system.

Operation
In PowerPoint, as in most other presentation software, text, graphics, movies, and other objects are positioned on individual pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector, a device which has become somewhat obsolete due to the use of PowerPoint and other presentation software. Slides can be printed, or (more often) displayed on-screen and navigated through at the command of the presenter. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts.

PowerPoint provides two types of movements. Entrance, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide itself are controlled by what PowerPoint calls Custom Animations. Transitions, on the other hand are movements between slides. These can be animated in a variety of ways. The overall design of a presentation can be controlled with a master slide; and the overall structure, extending to the text on each slide, can be edited using a primitive outliner. Presentations can be saved and run in any of the file formats: the default .ppt (presentation), .pps (PowerPoint Show) or .pot (template). In PowerPoint 2007 the file format is .pptx.


History
In late 1983, Rob Campbell and Taylor Pohlman founded Forethought, Inc in order to develop object oriented bit-mapped application software. In 1984, they hired Bob Gaskins, a former Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, in exchange for a large percentage of the company's stock. He and software developer Dennis Austin led the development of a program called Presenter, which they later renamed PowerPoint.

Answer 3

Its a program created by Microsoft. PowerPoint is commonly used to present information by the using a sideshow. Many teachers and business use it to present information to many people. In the power point you can use many effects as well as media types (text, pictures, and videos).

If you cannot afford Microsoft Powerpoint, you can use the FREE Open Office Version called IMPRESS.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Answer 4

PowerPoint is a complete presentation graphics package. It gives you everything you need to produce a professional-looking presentation. PowerPoint offers word processing, outlining, drawing, graphing, and presentation management tools- all designed to be easy to use and learn.

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

* 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.

Official Web Site :

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/default.aspx

Answer 5

It allows you to make presentations or slide shows might be a better description. I use Powerpoint to teach computer classes and display my slide show up on the wall via a projector.

Answer 6

PowerPoint is a complete presentation graphics package. It gives you everything you need to produce a professional-looking presentation. PowerPoint offers word processing, outlining, drawing, graphing, and presentation management tools- all designed to be easy to use and learn.

Answer 7

its a programme where u can:
*make slide show for your presentation(make graph, introduction of some topic).
*u can make the slide show really interesting where u can add
music on it but must be in wav format, moving the slide in different style(eg: flash left, flash right), then the background of the slide can be change according the wallpaper that u like.
*basically, its good for business use and in school presentation^^
i hope ur clear with my explaination on powerpoint

Answer 8

A presentation slide show tool, businesses use it to look flashy. It is good if you want to use visual effects for a presentation but to use it's full purpose you really have to know the program, there is so much you can dow with it.

Answer 9

It is a Program by Microsoft that people use to create Multimedia Presentations (basically slideshows)for school or business.

Answer 10

It is a program that helps you create slides etc. for presentation in a meeting, conference, schools and so on.