Introduction

Whether you need to put together a quick presentation of sales figures for your management team or create a polished slide show for your company's stockholders , Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 can help you present your information efficiently and professionally.

PowerPoint is a presentation graphics program ”software that helps you create a slide show presentation. A slide show presentation is made up of a series of slides that can contain charts , graphs, bulleted lists, eye-catching text, multimedia video and sound clips, and more. PowerPoint makes it easy to generate and organize ideas, and it provides tools for creating the parts of an effective slide show presentation.

To help you create a presentation, PowerPoint features two kinds of templates. Design templates include professionally designed colors, graphics, and other visual elements you can apply to your presentation. Content templates , on the other hand, contain both designs and content. Masters contain the formatting information for each slide in your presentation and are available for each part of your presentation ”slides, handouts, and speaker notes. A presentation's color scheme is a set of eight balanced colors that coordinates your presentation's text, borders, fills, backgrounds, and so on.