Application Software: Microsoft PowerPoint

What is Microsoft PowerPoint?

      PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is included in the standard Office suite along with Microsoft Word and Excel. The software allows users to create anything from basic slide shows to complex presentations.

     

     PowerPoint is a presentation software package. With PowerPoint, you can easily create slide shows. PowerPoint is often used to create business presentations, but can also be used for educational or informal purposes.

What are the Benefits of PowerPoint?       

1. Bring more energy and visual impact to your presentations.
2. Work with others without having to wait your turn.
3. Add a personalized video experience
4. Imagine just-in-time show and tell.
5. Access your presentations from more locations and on more devices.
6. Create high-quality presentations with stunning graphics.
7. Captivate your audience with new transitions and improved animations.
8. Organize and print your slides more effectively.
9. Get things done faster.
10. Work on multiple presentations and multiple monitors.

  

Problems With Custom Animation in PowerPoint

    Once presenters begin using animation in their slides, they often get carried away incorporating excessive and extravagant animation. Although this may make creating the presentation more fun, the audience may find it annoyingly distracting. In addition, due to the resolution differences between the computer screen and the projector, animations usually will look better on the computer than they will look during the presentation. Rather than incorporating extravagant animations, make sure you have a rhetorical purpose behind the animation. For example, you can use animations to coordinate the text with your presentation. 

     The presentations are comprised of slides, which may contain text, images, and other media, such as audio clips and movies. Sound effects and animated transitions can also be included to add extra appeal to the presentation. However, overusing sound effects and transitions will probably do more to annoy your audience than draw their attention.