Using Microsoft PowerPoint
When you need to present information to a group of people, the hip way to do it is with a PowerPoint presentation. Whether you use an overhead projector, traditional slides, or a computer projector, PowerPoint can help you create great-looking graphic and bullet-point presentations. If you work in an office, you probably see at least one PowerPoint presentation a week. Teachers use PowerPoint to present lesson materials in class. Kids even use PowerPoint to prepare what used to be oral reports. So get with the program—and learn how to create your own greatlooking presentations with PowerPoint! Microsoft PowerPoint Basic Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program included with most versions of Microsoft Office. We’ll look at the latest version of the program, PowerPoint 2007— although the previous version, PowerPoint 2003, works similarly (but with menus and toolbars instead of the 2007 Ribbon). PowerPoint Workspace As you can see in Figure 1, PowerPoint 2007 looks li...