What PowerPoint Is All About

PowerPoint helps you structure the ideas and information that you want conveyed to your audience. With it, you can add visual images, animation, supporting documents, and audio recordings to enhance your presentation. For example, you can easily do the following:

• Turbocharge that tired old training speech with animation and sound clips

• Visually demonstrate the importance of the yearly budget numbers by incorporating charts , tables, and high-impact graphics

• Impose structure on a presentation so the audience grasps the message

• Post the presentation on the World Wide Web so others can review it

• Generate an outline for your presentation

• Create audience handouts and speaker's notes

PowerPoint includes several templates that supply a presentation framework for many common topics. The task of building multimedia slides isn't a chore with PowerPoint because it has many of the formatting and content-creation tools built into other Office products. It also includes a rich library of clip art and sound files to jazz up the text. PowerPoint has drawing capabilities that enable you to create a dynamic presentation by including animation and action buttons in the presentation. In addition to slide-creation tools and navigation features, different slide perspectives are available to help you structure your ideas into a coherent presentation.

After you have reviewed your presentation and are ready to publish the content, PowerPoint supports a variety of display media. You can deliver your presentation with overhead projectors and transparencies (black-and-white or color ), with 35mm slides, on the Internet, or simply onscreen. By combining PowerPoint with your presentation subject and this book, you will enjoy learning to use PowerPoint to create fantastic presentations.