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Introduction To Powerpoint Ms Powerpoint Forethought, Inc. Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin. April 20, 1987 Microsoft. Ms Powerpoint 2.0 (1990)

MS PowerPoint is a presentation program included in the Microsoft Office suite, created by Forethought, Inc. and acquired by Microsoft in 1987. It features slide layouts, insertion options, design themes, and animations to enhance presentations, which can include text, graphics, and multimedia. PowerPoint presentations consist of slides that can be printed or displayed live, allowing for interactive presentations.

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Introduction To Powerpoint Ms Powerpoint Forethought, Inc. Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin. April 20, 1987 Microsoft. Ms Powerpoint 2.0 (1990)

MS PowerPoint is a presentation program included in the Microsoft Office suite, created by Forethought, Inc. and acquired by Microsoft in 1987. It features slide layouts, insertion options, design themes, and animations to enhance presentations, which can include text, graphics, and multimedia. PowerPoint presentations consist of slides that can be printed or displayed live, allowing for interactive presentations.

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INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT

 MS PowerPoint is a program that is included in the Microsoft Office suite.


It is used to make presentations for personal and professional purposes.
 The program was created in a software company named Forethought,
Inc. by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin.
 It was released on April 20, 1987, and after 3 months of its creation, it
was acquired by Microsoft.
 The first version of this program, when introduced by Microsoft was MS
PowerPoint 2.0 (1990).
 It is a presentation-based program that uses graphics, videos, etc. to
make a presentation more interactive and interesting.
 The file extension of a saved PowerPoint presentation is ".ppt".
 A PowerPoint presentation comprising slides and other features is also
known as PPT.

FEATURES OF MS POWERPOINT

1. Slide Layout
The layouts contain placeholders for text, videos, pictures, charts, shapes, clip
art, a background, and more. The layouts also contain the formatting for those
objects, like theme colors, fonts, and effects.

2. Insert
Under the "Insert" category, multiple options are available where one can
choose what feature they want to insert in their presentation. This may include
images, audio, video, header, footer, symbols, shapes, etc.

3. Design
MS PowerPoint has various themes using which background colour and de
textures can be added to a slide

4. Animations
During the slide show, the slides appear on the screen one after the other. In
case, one wants to add some animations to the way in which a slide presents
itself, they can refer to the "Animations" category.

USES OF MS POWERPOINT

- PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of individual pages or "slides".


- Slides may contain text, grSaphics, movies, and other objects, which may be
arranged freely.
- The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a computer, or navigated
through at the command of the presenter.

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