Friday, April 27, 2012

The Correct Use of Microsoft Powerpoint

By Ferko Slimak


Microsoft Powerpoint is the most frequently used application for creating presentations and it holds absolutely dominant position in the market. Powerpoint 97 utterly revolutionised the presentation industry by enabling users to add animations into the displays. Presentations no longer had to be linear and boring, there might be cool effects and attention-grabbing transitions. Crucially, these effects did not need programming from the end users or any special technical training. Powerpoint has traditionally been really simple to use. That was an important reason explaining why it became so preferred and why it has maintained it's popularity.

The composition of a Powerpoint presentation is very simple. It is a series of individual pages or "slides". These slides can include every type of content, such as text, pictures, tables, charts, graphs or video. The diversity of content makes presentations truly fascinating and useful. Occasionally a picture or a graph can demonstrate a point far better than lots of words. You can try it and see in person, simply download free Microsoft Office.

Microsoft Powerpoint can be very efficient in communicating ideas when used in the correct way. Nonetheless it can also lead directly to terrible results. "Death by Powerpoint" describes a situation when audience watching a Powerpoint presentation gets very bored and depressed due to badly designed presentation. Many files produced by Powerpoint suffer because of this phenomena. These displays are linear and full of text with few footage or other multimedia content.

A common mistake is to add too much text into a Powerpoint slide and then just read the entire thing from the screen when giving a presentation. Some people go as far as taking entire paragraphs of text from a webpage, for instance Wikipedia and then put it into a slide. This way they create an awful presentation which is dreary and can't doubtless help the presenter to get his message across.

Some people blame the unnecessary use of Powerpoint in several massive firms for falling levels of efficiency. However, this does not seem to be an inherent fault in the software. It is far more sure to be just bad application of the software.




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