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Introducing PowerPoint Presentations
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 35-mm slides of your family trip to the Grand Canyon. The main differ-
ence 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 presenta-
tions 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, either a CRT monitor or an
LCD, is a suitable way to display your presentation when you’re showing
it to just one or two other people.
 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.)
 35-mm slides: For a fee, you can have your presentation printed onto
35-mm slides either by a local company or over the Internet. Then, your
presentation really is like a Kodak Carousel slide tray!
Presentation files
A presentation is to PowerPoint what a document is to Word or a worksheet
is to Excel. In other words, a presentation is a file that you create with Power-
Point. Each presentation that you create is saved on the hard drive as a sepa-
rate file.
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