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Microsoft PowerPoint allows the user to incorporate images, video, and colorful backdrops to the information on screen. The prepared presentation you can deliver to a small team or a large audience. It creates great audio-visuals shows and with this tool it is easier to communicate the ideas effectively. Due to its simplicity, MS PowerPoint has become an indispensable tool to most of the corporate meetings and board rooms since it gives the management staff enough flexibility to present ideas and data more intelligently.
MS-Power Point not only handles picture, group, photos but also uses movies, audio, clips, TV recording to make presentation effective. Since PowerPoint is a member of the Office family of programs that look and work alike, once you learn one program, you can work on any one of them with ease. The next page shows the layout of a PowerPoint screen. It is important to familiarize yourself with the various toolbars available with PowerPoint and get an understanding of how to create and run a simple presentation. All these are presented in subsequent pages of this unit.
Starting Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint can be started in one of the two ways:
- By double clicking on the Microsoft PowerPoint icon on the desktop.
- Select Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft PowerPoint as shown below.
There are subtle differences between MS PowerPoint 2007 and 2003 but both versions share same way of handling commands.
