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 2007 can help you present your information efficiently and professionally.

PowerPoint is a presentation graphics programsoftware that helps you create a slide show presentation and supplements, such as handouts and speaker's notes. A slide show presentation is made up of a series of slides that can contain charts, diagrams, pictures, SmartArt graphs (New!), bulleted lists, eye-catching text, multimedia video and sound clips, and more. PowerPoint is set up with a tab-based Ribbon (New!) and dialog boxes that provide you with the tools you need when you need them to get tasks done. The customizable Quick Access Toolbar (New!) gives you easy access to commonly-used commands, such as Save, Undo, and Print.

PowerPoint provides a variety of professionally designed templates, themes (New!), and style galleries (New!) to help you create great-looking presentations. When it comes time to develop your presentation, PowerPoint offers a selection of views and panesNormal view, Slide Sorter view, Notes Page view, and Slide Show view. Normal view is helpful for working on individual slides and notes, while Slide Sorter view helps you organize all of your slides and add transition elements. If you need to write extensive notes, Notes Page view provides the additional space you need. Slide Show view pulls it all together, allowing you to view your presentation on your computer monitor for fine tuning.

When you complete your presentation, you can save it in a more efficient PowerPoint XML format (New!) or as a PDF or XPS document (New!), send it through e-mail for review, package it on a CD for clients, or even collaborate and share it with co-workers using a SharePoint slide library (New!).