PowerPoint is similar to a word processor such as Word, except that it’s geared toward creating presentations rather than documents. A presentation is kind of like those Kodak Carousel slide trays that your father used to load up with 35mm slides of your family trip to the Grand Canyon. The main difference is that you don’t have to worry about dumping all the slides in your PowerPoint presentation out of the tray and onto the floor.
Word documents consist of one or more pages, and PowerPoint presentations consist of one or more slides. Each slide can contain text, graphics, and other information. You can easily rearrange the slides in a presentation, delete slides that you don’t need, add new slides, or modify the contents of existing slides.
You can use PowerPoint both to create your presentations and to actually present them.
You can use several different types of media to actually show your presentations:
✓ Computer monitor: Your computer monitor is a suitable way to display your presentation when you’re showing it to just one or two other
people.
✓ Big-screen TV: If you have a big-screen TV that can accommodate computer input, it’s ideal for showing presentations to medium-sized
audiences — say 10 to 12 people in a small conference room.
✓ Computer projector: A computer projector projects an image of your computer monitor onto a screen so large audiences can view it.
✓ Overhead transparencies: Overhead transparencies can be used to show your presentation using an overhead projector.
✓ Printed pages: Printed pages allow you to distribute a printed copy of your entire presentation to each member of your audience. (When you
print your presentation, you can print one slide per page, or you can print several slides on each page to save paper.)
✓ 35mm slides: For a fee, you can have your presentation printed onto 35mm slides either by a local company or over the Internet. Then, your
presentation really is like a Kodak Carousel slide tray! It’s a little old school to be sure, but some people still do it this way. Your presentations will be much more interesting if you show them using one of the first three methods (computer monitor, TV, or projector) because you can incorporate animations, videos, sounds, and other whiz-bang features in your presentation. The last three (transparencies, printed pages, and 35mm slides) can show just static content.
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