What Will You Do with PowerPoint?

Any situation ”business or otherwise ”that calls for acetate sheets, a flip chart, blackboard scribbling, or a slide projector, can be improved with PowerPoint. PowerPoint is a program that mixes all kinds of presentation tools to help you create effective, impressive, and professional-quality presentations. How can PowerPoint help you present your ideas? Here are a few examples:

• Present your next report to the editorial board as a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation, complete with printed handouts.

• Use a PowerPoint presentation instead of overheads in your next HR training class; print the slides as handouts for employees , so they can spend more time listening, and less time taking notes.

• Use PowerPoint (with embedded spreadsheets from Microsoft Office Excel 2003) to show the company why your department needs a bigger budget.

Note ”Feeling Creative?

Presentations don t have to be all business in order to be effective. With PowerPoint s many media features, you can create a digital short film, mixing audio and video clips with still photos. Or you could produce a low-budget commercial for online broadcast or create a Web page that launches your annual report and gives visitors control over which elements they want to see, and when they want to see them.