Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint (Mac OS X)
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Stable release	2004 v11.3.1 / December 12, 2006
Operating system	Mac OS X
Type	Presentation
License	Proprietary
Website	PowerPoint 2004 for Mac

Microsoft PowerPoint (Windows)
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Stable release	12.0.4518.1014 / November 6, 2006
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Presentation
License	Proprietary
Website	PowerPoint Home Page - Microsoft Office Online

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS computer operating systems. Businesspeople, educators, and trainers use it often. It is a component of the Microsoft Office system.

Operation

In PowerPoint, as in most other presentation software, text, graphics, movies, and other objects are positioned on individual pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector. Slides can be printed, or (more often) displayed on-screen and navigated through at the command of the presenter. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts.

Versions

Versions for Microsoft Windows include:

1993 PowerPoint 4.0 (Office 4.x)
1995 PowerPoint 7 for Windows 95 (Office '95)
1997 PowerPoint 97 (Office '97)
1999 PowerPoint 2000 (Office 2000)
2001 PowerPoint 2002 (Office XP)
2003 PowerPoint 2003 (Office 2003)
2006-2007 PowerPoint 2007 (Office 2007)
2010 PowerPoint 2010 (Office 2010)
2016 PowerPoint 2016 (Office 2016)
2018 PowerPoint 2019 (Office 2019)

Note: There is no PowerPoint 5.0 or 6.0, because the Windows 95 version was launched with Word 7. All of the Office 95 products have OLE 2 - moving data between many programs - and PowerPoint 7 shows that it was as new as Word 7.

Related pages

LibreOffice Impress, a free, open source alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint
Apple Keynote

Other websites

Official website of PowerPoint at Microsoft
flashgeek PowerPoint tutorials and community, especially in regards to using PowerPoint in combination with Macromedia Flash.
PowerPoint Heaven — The Power to Animate Contains PowerPoint movies, showcases, PowerPoint games, animation templates and tutorials on creating animations for your PowerPoint Presentations.
PowerPoint FAQ pages Compilation of Frequently Asked Questions in the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Discussion Groups.
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 Download (freeware, 1.9 MiB.) Free PowerPoint Viewer provided by Microsoft, supports presentations from PowerPoint 97 to 2003. (only Windows)
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007 Download (freeware, 25.8 MiB.) Free PowerPoint Viewer provided by Microsoft, supports presentations from PowerPoint 97 to 2007. (only Windows)
pdfonline.com Upload a .ppt and get a .pdf via email

Discussion Groups

Articles

Atkinson, Cliff (2004). "PowerPoint usability: Q&A with Don Norman". Archived from the original on 2005-12-13. Retrieved 2006-05-28.
Parker, Ian (May 2001). "Absolute PowerPoint: The software that tells you what to think". The New Yorker. No. May 28, 2001. pp. 76–87.
Tufte, Edward R. (January 2002) [1997]. "The decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger". Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (5th rev. printing ed.). Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press. pp. 38–52. ISBN 0-9613921-2-6.
"EServer TC Library: Presentations". 2001–2006. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2006-05-28.
"Making a list, checking it twice: Interiew with Dean Eppler". Astrobiology Magazine. 2005-10-13. Retrieved 2006-05-28. (Astronauts using PowerPoint to replace paper checklists.)
Rutledge, Patrice (2003). "Creating Streaming Media Presentations with Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003". Retrieved 2006-09-13.
Makeuseof, kalygul (2006). "Top 6 Free Online Powerpoints Compared". Archived from the original on 2007-01-27. Retrieved 2007-02-08.