What kind of software is PowerPoint and what is it generally used for?

The Zen of Speech —— A necessary slide trick in the workplace (full color) Microsoft PowerPoint 20 10 (beta) splash screen is an international bestseller, which has been translated into 13 languages, and its contents have been adopted by Garr Reynold, a master of slide and speech design in many Fortune 500 companies. Powerpoint is an electronic slide used to design and produce expert reports, teachers' lectures, product demonstrations and advertisements. The produced presentations can be played on a computer screen or projector. PowerPoint is a kind of software for making and displaying slides. It can make a presentation of multimedia elements with words, graphics, images, sounds, video clips and so on, and organize the information it wants to express into a set of illustrated pictures, which can be used to introduce the company's products and show the company's academic achievements. Users can not only make presentations on projectors or computers, but also print them out and make them into movies for wider application. Powerpoint can not only create presentations, but also hold face-to-face meetings, teleconferencing or show presentations to the audience online. The function of Powerpoint What Powerpoint makes is called a presentation. It is a file, and its format is also called. Ppt format. Each page in a presentation is called a slide, and each slide is an independent and interrelated content in the presentation. Create a dynamic presentation Use the new user interface and new graphical functions of Office Fluent to quickly create a dynamic and beautiful presentation. You can get better results faster by using the Office Fluent user interface. The OfficeFluent user interface in Office PowerPoint makes it easier and more intuitive to create, demonstrate and appreciate demonstrations. Now, all the rich features and functions of PowerPoint are concentrated in an improved and orderly workspace, which can not only prevent interference to the greatest extent, but also help you get the desired results faster and easier. Create powerful dynamic SmartArt charts. You can easily create relationships, workflows, or hierarchical diagrams in OfficePowerPoint. You can even convert bulleted lists into SmartArt charts, or modify and update existing charts. With the help of the context-sensitive icon menu in the OfficeFluent user interface, users can also easily use a wealth of format options. Help ensure that the content is up to date. By using PowerPoint Slide Library, you can easily reuse existing presentation slides stored on websites supported by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Not only can this shorten the time for creating a presentation, but all slides you insert from the website can be synchronized with the server version, thus helping to ensure that the content is up to date. By reusing custom layouts, you can create presentations quickly and easily. In OfficePowerPoint, you can define and save your own custom slide layouts, so that you don't have to waste valuable time cutting and pasting layouts into new slides or deleting content from slides with the required layout. With the help of PowerPoint Slide Library, you can easily * * * share these customized slides with others, thus giving your presentation a consistent and professional appearance. Get a consistent look with just one click. With document themes, you can change the appearance of the entire presentation with one click. Changing the theme of the presentation can not only change the background color, but also change the colors of icons, tables, charts and fonts, and even change the style of any bullet in the presentation. By applying themes, you can ensure that the entire presentation has a professional and consistent appearance. Dynamically modify shapes, text, and graphics with new tools and effects. Now, you can manipulate and use text, tables, charts and other presentation elements in more ways than before. Office PowerPoint makes these tools available at any time through a simplified user interface and context menu, so you can make your work more attractive with just a few clicks. Enjoying presentations effectively can significantly improve the way users * * * enjoy and reuse information. Use different platforms and devices to communicate with users. By converting files into XML Paper Specification (XPS) and PDF files, they can be shared with users on any software platform, which helps to ensure extensive communication with PowerPoint presentations. At the same time, reduce the file size and improve the file recovery ability. The compressed version of Microsoft Office PowerPoint XML Format can significantly reduce the file size and improve the data recovery ability of damaged files. This new format can greatly save storage and bandwidth requirements and reduce the burden on IT personnel. You can integrate presentations stored in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services with MicrosoftOfficeOutlook. By using Office Outlook, you can fully interact with the information stored in WindowsSharePointServices anytime and anywhere. When you reconnect to the network, any changes you make to the presentation stored in Outlook will be reflected in the server version. Easily reuse and * * * enjoy content. Do you wish there was a better way to reuse content between presentations? PowerPoint Slide Library allows you to store your presentation as a single slide on a website supported by OfficeSharePoint Server, and you can easily reuse the contents in PowerPoint later. This will not only shorten the time to create a presentation, but also keep all slides you insert in sync with the server version, thus ensuring that the content is always up to date. Use Microsoft Office Groove for real-time review sessions. With Groove, you can start reviewing PowerPoint presentations in real time in the Groove workspace. You can collaborate with team members in real time, * * * view and work on the same presentation, and take advantage of the presentation information and instant messaging features built into the workspace. Effectively manage the presentation, apply proper protection to the presentation, and easily start the review workflow. Start the review or approval workflow directly from Office PowerPoint. With Office PowerPoint and OfficeSharePointServer, you can send a presentation to a team for review, or create a formal approval process and collect the signatures of the presentation, thus making collaboration a smooth and simple process. Help protect personal information in documents. Use the Document Inspector to detect and delete unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information so that you are ready to share your presentation with others. Enjoy PowerPoint presentations more safely. You can now add a digital signature to your PowerPoint presentation to help ensure that the content will not be changed after you leave, or mark the presentation as "final version" to prevent accidental changes. Using content controls, you can create and deploy structured PowerPoint templates to guide users to enter correct information and help protect and save information that cannot be changed in a presentation. [Edit this paragraph] PowerPoint, one of the most brilliant, influential and complaining softwares in the history of computer development, is 20 years old this year. It's hard to say how many birthday celebrations PowerPoint will have; Almost as many people dig this software as are willing to use it. PowerPoint makes countless wonderful demonstrations icing on the cake, and also makes countless stupid ideas put on a gorgeous coat with pictures and texts. It appears not only in the meeting room, but also in the sixth grade book report or PowerPointSermons.com. With all this happening, the content of cultural defects that may be called PowerPoint has brought as much confusion, anxiety and even shock to its two creators as others. RobertGaskins is a visionary entrepreneur. As early as the mid-1980s, he realized that the huge but undeveloped market of commercial slides had formed a perfect combination with the emerging graphic computer era. Many venture capitalists do not agree with this. They insist that DOS computers in text format will never disappear. DennisAustin, an old friend of Gaskins, is responsible for writing the main program of this software. PowerPoint 1.0 of Mac operating system is listed in 1987. Later that year, Microsoft acquired the company for $65,438+$400,000 (the first acquisition in Microsoft history). Three years later, the Windows version of PowerPoint came out. Gaskins, 63, and Austin, 60, talked about the birth and wide application of PowerPoint in an interview last week. They are deeply proud of their technical and strategic success. But what's more worth mentioning is that they didn't defend all kinds of criticisms about PowerPoint at all. In fact, the best single source of comments (whether praise or criticism) on PowerPoint is RobertGaskins.com, Gaskins's personal homepage (with a lot of Dilbert cartoons on it). Perhaps the harshest criticism comes from EdwardTufte, a graphic master at Yale University. He said that this software promoted the form to the content, exposing the attitude of businessmen who turned everything into sales promotion. He even said that PowerPoint was also responsible for the space shuttle Columbia crash in 2003, because some crucial technical problems were hidden under optimistic slides. Gaskins didn't argue about it. He said that everything Taft said was absolutely correct. People often use PowerPoint wrongly. Gaskins reminded those who questioned him that PowerPoint presentation should never be the whole content of a proposal or scheme, but just a simple summary of mature and long content. He took the original business plan of this software as an example: this repeatedly discussed business plan has 53 pages, and the supporting slides only list the key contents, only a dozen * * *. He complained that since PowerPoint appeared, many business people stopped writing documents. They are just writing a presentation, but there are no details and supporting outlines. Many people don't like the mental work of writing detailed documents. Gaskins and Austin said that one of the problems is that PowerPoint has been bundled with Office, which makes the number of people exposed to the software greatly exceed the original target group-salespeople. As projectors become smaller and cheaper, almost every room is ready to play PowerPoint. Now, the children in the school have begun to write book reports with PowerPoint. Gaskins and Austin hate it. They insist that children need to think and write in complete paragraphs. However, Gaskins and Austin are not in favor of imposing some unwarranted charges on PowerPoint. Gaskins studied a large collection of presentations before designing this software. He said that this dot format existed long before PowerPoint came out. Although these two people must know how to use PowerPoint, they both think they are not experts. They don't even know many new advanced features. They also resent that some people spend hours adjusting font size and font size under the guise of doing practical things. They are often willing to tell a joke that the best way to paralyze the opposition camp is to put PowerPoint on the stage to interfere with their decision-making. Some analysts say this happened at the Pentagon. Both of them left Microsoft in the 1990s and are now working on their own projects. Austin didn't miss the day of Apple's developer conference last week, hoping to keep up with young people's thinking. Although both of them agree that it may be feasible to develop a software similar to PowerPoint to build a high-end website, they don't want to put this idea into practice. Gaskins and Austin are unwilling to express themselves, so they have no complaints about the popularity of PowerPoint. Whenever they tell strangers what they have done, they often hear that people can't live without this software and so on. If there is one thing that makes them sad, it is that complaints about PowerPoint are usually not about the software itself, but about poor presentations. Austin said that this is just like print media, and all kinds of rubbish may be printed on it.