...Microsoft PowerPoint is the name of a proprietary commercial software presentation program developed by Microsoft. It was officially launched on May 22, 1990 as a part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system. The current versions are Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 for Windows and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. Contents * 1 History * 2 Operation * 3 Cultural impact * 3.1 Criticism * 3.2 "Death by PowerPoint" * 3.3 Boredom * 3.4 Military excess * 4 PowerPoint Viewer * 5 Versions * 5.1 Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 * 6 File formats * 7 See also * 8 References * 9 Further reading * 10 External links | History Originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called "Presenter", developed by Dennis Austin[not in citation given] and Thomas Rudkin[not in citation given] of Forethought, Inc.[1] In 1987, it was renamed to "PowerPoint" due to problems with trademarks, the idea for the name coming from Robert Gaskins.[2] In August of the same year, Forethought was bought by Microsoft for $14 million USD ($28.6 million in present-day terms[3]), and became Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, which continued to develop the software further. PowerPoint was officially launched on May 22, 1990, the same day that Microsoft released Windows 3.0. PowerPoint changed significantly with PowerPoint 97. Prior to PowerPoint 97, presentations were linear, always proceeding...
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...University of Phoenix Material Help With Microsoft® PowerPoint® Assignments Introduction Microsoft® PowerPoint® software is used widely in business and education to create visual presentations to accompany live speaking. Table of Contents Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 1 Creating Your Best Work in Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2 Details You Should Know 4 Submitting Your Microsoft® PowerPoint® File 5 Using Microsoft® PowerPoint Microsoft® PowerPoint® software is widely used in business and education to create slides to accompany live presentations. Microsoft® PowerPoint® files contain slides that are presented sequentially, most often by means of a computer running the software connected to a projector. Microsoft® PowerPoint® is the software used to create slides, organize them into a slideshow, and present them. • When used in a live presentation, the presenter uses the mouse button, the spacebar, or the arrow keys to advance to the next slide. • To help make the slides more interesting, Microsoft® PowerPoint® provides a number of visual styles and themes so that all slides can have a similar look. • Each theme or style accommodates a number of slide types in the form of empty slide templates, which may then be populated with content. Among the many templates are title slides, bullet-point slides, slides with spaces for images, and so on. • In addition, the creator can control transitions between slides and other simple animations, such as having bullet...
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...of Phoenix Material Help With Microsoft® PowerPoint® Assignments Introduction Microsoft® PowerPoint® software is used widely in business and education to create visual presentations to accompany live speaking. Table of Contents Using Microsoft® PowerPoint® 1 Creating Your Best Work in Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2 Details You Should Know 4 Submitting Your Microsoft® PowerPoint® File 5 Using Microsoft® PowerPoint Microsoft® PowerPoint® software is widely used in business and education to create slides to accompany live presentations. Microsoft® PowerPoint® files contain slides that are presented sequentially, most often by means of a computer running the software connected to a projector. Microsoft® PowerPoint® is the software used to create slides, organize them into a slideshow, and present them. * When used in a live presentation, the presenter uses the mouse button, the spacebar, or the arrow keys to advance to the next slide. * To help make the slides more interesting, Microsoft® PowerPoint® provides a number of visual styles and themes so that all slides can have a similar look. * Each theme or style accommodates a number of slide types in the form of empty slide templates, which may then be populated with content. Among the many templates are title slides, bullet-point slides, slides with spaces for images, and so on. * In addition, the creator can control transitions between slides and other simple animations, such as having...
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...Reports and Memos * The most straightforward use of Microsoft Word for businesses is word processing. As such, Word offers the ability to type and lay out reports, memos, letterheads, and other written business papers. Word has several key built-in functions, including bold, italics, underlining, super- and sub-script, paragraph and line formatting, bullet points, and so forth. The page layout function allows users to customize the size and format of the paper they are trying to create. Flowcharts * Microsoft Word offers a multitude of shapes, lines, and symbols for use in crafting flowcharts. In contrast to typical written documents, flowcharts are visual diagrams meant to direct a reader's attention to the process or flow of a project. Word's various options allow you to customize the layout and look of flowcharts, as well as type text inside and next to shapes, insert images, and so on. * Mailing Labels * A very widespread use of Microsoft Word in the workplace is in typing and printing mailing labels. Word offers a preset layout in the correct size to print on label paper, which makes mailing much easier than the traditional method of writing labels by hand or typing each label individually on a typewriter. You can also customize the label format for different size labels, as well as laying out text to be printed directly on envelopes. Letters Microsoft Word enables you to create a range of correspondence from a simple office memo to mail-merged form...
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...Know How You use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint on a daily basis and are still be trying to figure out where things are and how they work, using only 10% of the applications power. Below are 101 customizations and tweaks to help you harness the power of productivity, and customize MS office to work for you. The difference between an Microsoft Office beginner and advanced user is all about knowing how to use the individual applications, and knowing how to use them well. Wondering how to use your everyday Office applications effectively? The best way is to customize them. When you learn how to customize an application the way you want it--especially when it’s a productivity tool like an Microsoft Office program, you increase your productivity and effectiveness by leaps and bounds. All you need is a guide on getting the best customizations out there. Read on and make the leap from Microsoft Office beginner to expert with the following list of resources, tips, tricks and tutorials. Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft Powerpoint Microsoft Outlook Streamline Document Formatting Keyboard shortcut/Cheat sheets Editing Importing Fonts Exporting to Different Doc Types General Word Tips and tricks Interface Customizations Formatting Text & Numbers in Spreadsheets Templates Macros and Calculations Keyboard shortcut/cheat sheets General Excel Tips and Tricks Interface customizations Printing Exporting Keyboard shortcuts Editing General PowerPoint Tips and Tricks ...
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...THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF TEACHING BY USING MICROSOFT POWERPOINT During teaching by using PowerPoint the writer found many kinds of advantages and disadvantages. There are several of advantages of using Microsoft PowerPoint for teaching learning process, among others are: A. THE ADVANTAGES OF USING POWERPOINT PowerPoint encourages and supports teaching learning process by facilitating the material presentation. The template provided is designed to default to good presentation criteria such as the number of lines of information in each slide and appropriate font sizes. The use of the default templates can improve the clarity and the arrangement of a presentation. It helps the teacher avoid the common use of excessive text often found on OHV (Over Head Projector). PowerPoint is able to perform a variety of manipulations, such as editing text before printing it out, and the teacher can add new slides for adding new materials. PowerPoint is an application program of presentation that is found in Microsoft Office. It means that we did not need to buy new software, because it has been included in Microsoft Office program. This program is also advantages in the sense that the icons used are very simple because they are similar with those in the Microsoft Word. In this way, the users can create an instruction of language without studying this program previously. PowerPoint is also fun to be applied and fun to watch. It is not hard to learn in one hour. It allows...
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...Microsoft Office Program: Helpful to Student’s Studies I. INTRODUCTION In this fast reaching world, the studies of every individual become more complicated. We have now going beyond the imagination of each human being and applying this through technology. Merely fact, technology is a very big help in the lives of each learners specifically to the highschool students here in Gonzalo Aler National High School. The school adapted technology as one of the most important tools in learning and computer is one of the best examples. Computer is one of the best systematic knowledge that can be used. Using this product of technology, learners challenged to be maximized in their learning by being more creative and become more interested in studying. Today, computer does not just help to the student but it is an essential one to give courage and help improves the skills of individual. With the ever increasing population of computer technology, it is almost impossible to find an educational establishment that does not use it. Computers are becoming a more and more important within education as both a learning tool for students and for keeping records of all individuals at the school. Computers allow students to access more information more easily and the introduction of the internet means that this information is available to hand 24/7. Whether this is a good prospect or not is something that is debated frequently. For every factual and accurate piece of information that can...
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...dealt with in today’s society. However, based on its economic endanger lives and is thought to be nothing more than an extra value and medical benefits, the has proven to outweigh its negatives with numerous other positives. First Main Point Second Main Point Third Main Point First Main Point: Working with outline numbered text in Microsoft Word You can move an outline numbered item to the appropriate numbering level On the Formatting toolbar: To demote the item to a lower numbering level click a list number click Increase Indent. To promote the item to a higher numbering level click a list number click Decrease Indent. You can use this procedure to help you plan your speech and organize your thoughts. Second Main Point: Creating a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation from a Word outline About creating a PowerPoint presentation from a Word Outline PowerPoint uses the heading styles in your Word document Heading styles are applied when you use numbered outlines Heading styles are already turned on for you in this template. For example, each paragraph formatted with the Heading 1 style becomes the title of a new slide, each Heading 2 becomes the first level of text, and so on. Procedure Open the document you want to use to create a PowerPoint presentation. On the File menu, point to Send To,...
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...About Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 | Use this guide to learn about the new features of Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010. For more detailed information about the new features of PowerPoint 2010, go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/. Topics in this guide include:Use Slide Sections in Your PresentationCreate Slide TransitionsUse the Animation PainterUnderstand Co-AuthoringMerge and Compare PresentationsCreate Broadcast Slide ShowsInsert Videos from Online Video SitesEdit and Format VideosCreate Videos from Your PresentationsMake Your Presentations Portable | * Customization note: This document contains guidance and/or step-by-step installation instructions that can be reused, customized, or deleted entirely if they do not apply to your organization’s environment or installation scenarios. The text marked in red indicates either customization guidance or organization-specific variables. All of the red text in this document should either be deleted or replaced prior to distribution. Use Slide Sections in Your Presentation In PowerPoint 2010, you can divide your presentation into logical groups (sections), which aids in organizing and speeds navigation of your presentation. If you create large presentations or work with others on presentations, you will find sections to be particularly valuable. And, with sections added to your presentation, printing becomes much simpler, as you can now print groups of slides. To Add Sections to Your Presentation 1 In the Slides pane, right-click...
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...Microsoft Office Microsoft Office is an office suite of desktop applications, servers and services for Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems. It was first announced by Bill Gates of Microsoft on 1 August 1988 at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand. On 10 July 2012, Softpedia reported that Office is used by over a billion people worldwide. The current versions are Office 2013 for Windows, released on 11 October 2012; and Office 2011 for OS X, released 26 October 2010. On 24 October 2012, the RTM final code of Office 2013 Professional Plus was released to TechNet and MSDN subscribers for download. On 15 November 2012, the 60-day trial version of Office 2013 Professional Plus was released for download. A touch optimised version of Microsoft Office is available pre-installed on Windows RT tablets. A mobile version of Office,Office Mobile, is available for free on Windows Phone, iOS (with separate versions for both iPhones and iPads), and Android. A web-based version of Office called Office Online, (formerly...
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...Microsoft Word has brought forth a whole new experience in putting letters and even term papers together. It is constantly keeping up with the every changing ways people do things. As our world of technology tends to grow, Microsoft consistently keeps up to satisfy and benefit their users. Papers and letters used to be just the same old boring typeface and format that you would only get by typing on a typewriter. But Microsoft Word has been able to give people an advanced way to liven up a paper or letter. With the newest Microsoft Word version, it actually will do the paper or letter for you while all you have to do is just fill in the blanks. Microsoft Word first was introduced to the computer and technology world in 1990. It was developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie. They were hired by the original CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates in 1981. Gates along with his partner Paul Allen, needed to give the world a reason to really dive into the computer world. They felt the only way possible would be if they introduced a way for people to be able to write their letters on a space that could be saved forever without having to make photocopies as well as being able to have assistance with the format of a letter and spelling errors. Hence the first version of Word was introduced in 1983 but it was far from successful and Simonyi and Brodie were sent back to the drawing board. Over the next several years, four more versions were introduced that were no better than the original...
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...Microsoft Office is an office suite of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. MICROSOFT WORD Microsoft Word is a word processor and was previously considered to be the main program in Office. Its proprietary DOC format is considered a de facto standard, although Word 2007 can also use a new XML-based, Microsoft Office-optimized format called .DOCX which has been standardized by Ecma International as Office Open XML. The first version of Word, released in the autumn of 1983, was for the MSDOS operating system and had the distinction of introducing the mouse to a broad population. Word 1.0 could be purchased with a bundled mouse, though none was required. Word has a built-in spell checker, thesaurus, dictionary, Office Assistant (a feature to assist users by way of an interactive animated character) and utilities for transferring, copy, pasting and editing text, such as PureText (a small utility that allows users to paste the contents of the software as plain text). "Normal.dot" is the master template from which all Word documents are created. It is one of the most important files in Microsoft Word. It determines the margin defaults as well as the layout of the text and font defaults. Although normal.dot is...
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...Microsoft Office in my professional life Lissette Torres Everest University CGS2167 Abstract Microsoft Corporation, founded 1975, leads globally in the development and production of software and software-related services and solutions. Initially known for home computers, Microsoft, headquartered in Washington, now offers various operating systems and software for desktop computers. This multinational company strives to help the worldwide business community improve efficiency and productivity. A number of editions of Office are available, made up of different components but with Word for word processing and Excel for spreadsheets in every one. Some will then also include PowerPoint for presentations, Publisher for desktop publishing and Access to build and run databases. Outlook, Microsoft’s popular e-mail and collaboration client is included in the business packages and, as of this release, OneNote, a kind of electronic notebook, is another common component. Because it provides the most basic and widely used of desktop applications, the Office suite is used by everyone from students and home users up to large enterprise corporations. Microsoft Office had significantly influenced business enterprises. The productivity with Innovation is faster and efficiently and organized many of the business work. With the diversity of programs business can make presentations in short time and make them look professionals and elegant. Microsoft markets the Microsoft Office business suite...
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...Common Microsoft Office User Errors IT 206 / Final July 27, 2014 Raj Kayathi Microsoft Word Summary: Microsoft Word is a word processing program that allows for the creation of both simple and sophisticated documents. The program is equipped with templates and wizards to help you create useful documents such as resumes, letters and fax cover sheets. There are also features that allow you to add professional looking graphics to your documents. 1 Common Errors: Auto correct Formatting errors Macros Cannot open a file Document is formatted on earlier versions Diagnostic Strategies: One of the best strategies to resolve errors in Microsoft Word is to use the help function within Word itself. Another strategies is to use one or more search engines to find a solution to an issue. To get started on using the help function in Microsoft Word, press the F1 key and ‘word help’ will appear. There are a couple of options to using word help. If a user is connected to the internet, then use the online search function, if they are not, then use the help function from the computer. A user can switch from each one using the drop down arrow next to the words ‘word help’. Teaching a customer how to use the word help function is a great opportunity to educate them on Word 2013 options to get more Word training. An example is ‘key shortcuts’ and ‘learn word basics’ Microsoft Excel Summary: Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet...
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...REQUEST FOR PROPSAL TO BRINGING IN OUTSIDE TRAINERS TO TRAIN STAFF ON THE USE OF MICROSOFT OFFICE PROGRAMS Prepared for Eng. 221 Technical Writing Fundamentals University of Phoenix E Campus By Larry Franklin Student July 19, 2010 REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL COVER LETTER BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD INSURANCE COMPANY Mailing Address: 550 Club Dr. Suite #215 Montgomery, TX 77316 936.582.7120 FAX: 936.582.7130 Monday, July 19, 2010 Dr. Jamilah Abdush-Shaheed, Director Microsoft Corporation 1950 North Stemmons Freeway Dallas, Texas 75207 Dear Dr. Abdush-Shaheed: This RFP is submitted for your review and response in the form of proposal to bring in outside trainers to train our staff on the use of Microsoft Office Programs. This document is in response to Blue Cross/Blue Shield’s need to train its employees in the use of Microsoft Office Application packages that include Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access. Thank you for taking the time to consider our need for your technical support. We look forward to your proposal in response to this RFP. Sincerely, Larry Franklin Marketing Director TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract……………………………………………………………………….5 1.0 Introduction / General Over View Of (RFP) .....................……………………….5 1.1 Organizational Overview………………………………………………………….5 2.0 Discussion…………………………………………………………………………6 2.1 Course Description……………………………………………….………………..6 2.2 Target Audience…………………………………………………………………...
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