No,I'm not referring to the electrical powerpoint at home,I'm referring to the programme. The PowerPoint programme was created by Microsoft company,and its main purpose in today's context is to assist people in their presentation. However,it is something which a lot of people easily either take it for granted or overlook. People use it everyday not realising that it is a programme that seemingly works magically,but they do not realise that a lot of work has been done to ensure the functionality of such a programme.Basically there are a lot of benefits to using this programme. It can not only help you with your presentations,but to also make them look good. A lot of functions have been integrated into the programme to make it as user-friendly as possible.
An example is the clip-art function;it allows any kind of image to be inserted into the presentation slide,and this can be really useful if a presentation has to be done urgently.However, one drawback is that the images are mostly cartoons,doodles and drawings,photographs only make up a small percentage of all the images in the PowerPoint archive. So it might not be wise to include such images in corporate presentations,but it can be stimulating in educational institutes;because children and students are more likely to pay attention to the teacher/lecturer when they see vivid colours on the presentation slides.
Another practical function is the 'slide background' function. Its sole purpose is to beautify the slide even further. There are about a few dozen default slide backgrounds avaliable for use when the programme is installed. Fortunately,there are hundreds of other slide backgrounds that can be found on the internet,and one can download those which are free and add them to their background arsenal. Attractive slides will get peoples' attention,thus one can bring his/her point across to the targetted audience quickly and with a strong note.
At this point in time,programme bugs are either only a handful or totally non-existent at all,and it has really proven itself useful in schools,offices,homes and even army installations. The reason being that with this programme, one can virtually come up with bar charts,graphs,pie charts,tables,anything which is really useful for people who often need to do presentations. So this programme is virtually indispensable for anybody today, because, given a short period of time,anybody can come up with a reasonably satisfactory presentation,even if it is a last minute attempt to rush for a due assignment.
This goes to show that in today's world,no doubt technology is constantly improving day by day,and some programmes are also going through a facelift as well. The commonly used PowerPoint programme is the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, but a few months back, the 2007 edition was already released together with the new Windows Vista Operating System,and more people are warming up to the new change and they enjoy using the new programmes. So this certainly proves that people today want things to be more convenient and easily accessible. However PowerPoint is only but one of the few programmes in Microsoft Office which are commonly used,Word and Excel are also two more programmes which have proven themselves to be really useful as well.
However,we only have that much time on today's programme,tune in next time where we will talk about the obsolete Notepad which has ran its course.