Creating presentations using the Microsoft PowerPoint application is common among students, professors and other members of the academe. The presentation tool is also used in the business world by employers and employees alike. Even with the release of other presentation programs by rival office software, the PowerPoint remained a popular choice among users.
The program popularized the use of custom slides for better and faster presentation of reports. Reports and lectures are often lengthy that they need to be summarized in bullet forms for better understanding and note-taking. Reports and lectures without any visual aids is boring, especially with a boring reporter. Instead of just discussing the report, students and professors could use the program to highlight salient points. There might be points and phrases that needed to be remembered and taken note of, and the application is just the right tool to present them.
Students and professors alike use Power Point presentations for their reports, instead of using acetates and projectors, or the blackboard write-ups. They transform their otherwise boring visual aids into elegant-looking slides. The program allows its users to create their own slide background and fonts. A user can use his creativity, without sacrificing content and precision, to bring out the best of the report. He could insert pictures, videos and even audio recordings into a slide. The program also comes with a set of slide templates that a user can readily use if he is in a hurry. The templates allow the user to instantly paste or type in the needed information without worrying about the looks of the presentation.
Like other tools and program, the PowerPoint is also prone to abuse. There are users who commit some mistakes that make the presentations boring instead of being enjoyable. It is, however, the users’ fault, not the program’s.
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