This document provides an overview of PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation software. It discusses that PowerPoint allows users to create slideshows with text, graphics, videos and other objects. Slides can be printed, displayed live, or navigated through by a presenter. PowerPoint offers animation features like custom animations for on-slide elements, transitions between slides, and moving pictures to tell stories. The PowerPoint Viewer software allows viewing presentations without Microsoft PowerPoint installed.

1. R.D.SIVAKUMAR,M.Sc.,M.Phil.,M.Tech.,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science &
Assistant Professor and Head, Department of M.Com.(CA),
Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College,
Sivakasi – 626 124.
Mobile: 099440-42243
e-mail : sivamsccsit@gmail.com
website: www.rdsivakumar.blogspot.in
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• PowerPoint is the slide show presentation software
developed by Microsoft.
• It is part of the Microsoft Office Suite.
• PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of
individual pages or “slides”.

3. • Slides may contain text, graphics, movies, and other
objects, which may be arranged freely on the slide.
• PowerPoint also facilitates the use of a consistent
style in a presentation using a template or “Slide
Master”.
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4. • The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a
computer, or navigated through at the command of
the presenter.
• For larger audiences the computer display is often
projected using a video projector.
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5. PowerPoint provides three types of movements:
 Entrance, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide
itself are controlled by what PowerPoint calls Custom
Animations
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6.  Transitions are movements between slides. These can
be animated in a variety of ways.
 Custom animation can be used to create small story
boards by animating pictures to enter, exit or move
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7. • The MS Office PowerPoint Viewer is a software used
to run presentations on computers that do not have
Microsoft PowerPoint installed.
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8. • Presentations password-protected for opening or
modifying can be opened by the PowerPoint Viewer.
• The PowerPoint Viewer supports opening
Presentations created using PowerPoint 97 and later.
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9. • In addition, it supports all file content except OLE
objects and scripting.
• In Microsoft Office 2007, the binary file formats were
replaced as the default format by the new XML
based Office Open XML formats, which are
published as an open standard.
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