Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. Businesspeople, educators, and trainers use it often. It is a component of the Microsoft Office system.
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 12.0.4518.1014
/ November 6, 2006 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Presentation |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | PowerPoint Home Page - Microsoft Office Online |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2004 v11.3.1
/ December 12, 2006 |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | Presentation |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | PowerPoint 2004 for Mac |
Operation change
In PowerPoint, as in most other presentation software, text, graphics, movies, and other objects are positioned on individual pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector. Slides can be printed, or (more often) displayed on-screen and navigated through at the command of the presenter. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts.
Versions change
Versions for Microsoft Windows include:
- 1993 PowerPoint 4.0 (Office 4.x)
- 1995 PowerPoint 7 for Windows 95 (Office '95)
- 1997 PowerPoint 97 (Office '97)
- 1999 PowerPoint 2000 (Office 2000)
- 2001 PowerPoint 2002 (Office XP)
- 2003 PowerPoint 2003 (Office 2003)
- 2006-2007 PowerPoint 2007 (Office 2007)
- 2010 PowerPoint 2010 (Office 2010)
- 2016 PowerPoint 2016 (Office 2016)
- 2018 PowerPoint 2019 (Office 2019)
Note: There is no PowerPoint 5.0 or 6.0, because the Windows 95 version was launched with Word 7. All of the Office 95 products have OLE 2 - moving data between many programs - and PowerPoint 7 shows that it was as new as Word 7.
Related pages change
- LibreOffice Impress, a free, open source alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint
- Apple Keynote
Other websites change
- Official website of PowerPoint at Microsoft
- flashgeek PowerPoint tutorials and community, especially in regards to using PowerPoint in combination with Macromedia Flash.
- PowerPoint Heaven — The Power to Animate Contains PowerPoint movies, showcases, PowerPoint games, animation templates and tutorials on creating animations for your PowerPoint Presentations.
- PowerPoint FAQ pages Compilation of Frequently Asked Questions in the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Discussion Groups.
- Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 Download (freeware, 1.9 MiB.) Free PowerPoint Viewer provided by Microsoft, supports presentations from PowerPoint 97 to 2003. (only Windows)
- Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007 Download (freeware, 25.8 MiB.) Free PowerPoint Viewer provided by Microsoft, supports presentations from PowerPoint 97 to 2007. (only Windows)
- pdfonline.com Upload a .ppt and get a .pdf via email
Discussion Groups change
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint Discussion Group
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint Yahoo! Group — Help and advice for users of PowerPoint Archived 2006-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
Articles change
- Atkinson, Cliff (2004). "PowerPoint usability: Q&A with Don Norman". Archived from the original on 2005-12-13. Retrieved 2006-05-28.
- Parker, Ian (May 2001). "Absolute PowerPoint: The software that tells you what to think". The New Yorker. No. May 28, 2001. pp. 76–87.
- Tufte, Edward R. (January 2002) [1997]. "The decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger". Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (5th rev. printing ed.). Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press. pp. 38–52. ISBN 0-9613921-2-6.
- "EServer TC Library: Presentations". 2001–2006. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2006-05-28.
- "Making a list, checking it twice: Interiew with Dean Eppler". Astrobiology Magazine. 2005-10-13. Retrieved 2006-05-28. (Astronauts using PowerPoint to replace paper checklists.)
- Rutledge, Patrice (2003). "Creating Streaming Media Presentations with Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003". Retrieved 2006-09-13.
- Makeuseof, kalygul (2006). "Top 6 Free Online Powerpoints Compared". Archived from the original on 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2007-02-08.