PowerPoint is used by business people, educators, students, and trainers. PowerPoint 2000 (and the rest of the Office 2000 suite) introduced a clipboard that could hold multiple objects at once. Presentations can be used forinitial teaching, for practice and drilling, for games, for reviews, andfor tests.
FLASH Presentations (Multimedia) Multimedia FLASH presentations are a great tool to introduce your company, its products and services to prospective clients. Flash PresentationsNow you can easily convert your new and existing PowerPoint presentations into online Flash presentations, complete with your own narration. Create highly interactive learning content without the need of complicated programming knowledge. Multimedia presentations, is an ideal and most effective medium to launch new product range.
Open Office Impress is a presentation software program that is part of a suite of programs offered free from OpenOffice. it’s an updated version of that kind of slide show.
Keynote gives you a variety of ways to bring your show to the people. it does the format conversion for you. Keynote Remote is sold separately and is available from the App Store. it’s a great alternative to PowerPoint for Mac users. it’s also has a nicer set of default styles and themes — although there are fewer “all business” alternatives, the more stylish styles are quite appealing (in my opinion, anyway). Keynote’s Action Build and Smart Build features also give you the ability to add animation to your presentation with almost no set-up time and more precise control than PowerPoint.
Photoshop presentations are also given to show guests how to enhance their underwater photos and turn them into works of art to stand out from the rest. Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images.
NXPowerLite by Neuxpower Solutions Ltd NXPowerLite can reduce the size of your PowerPoint files by over 90%. Its will searches through the presentation, finding ways to optimize the content. It’s fully customizable, allowing you to choose the ideal balance between compression and quality.
Powerplugs Charts create visually stunning charts without the assistance of a graphic artist. Enables you to create fully-customizable, television-quality charts and graphs using Microsoft PowerPoint. PowerPlugs: Charts can serve as a companion application to Microsoft Chart, complementing PowerPoint’s own graphing tools.
Perspector is a 3D add-in for PowerPoint, designed to make your presentations stand out. Perspector is priced at US$69 for the standard edition and US$199 for the professional edition.
PowerPoint comes as standard with the most appalling colour schemes. To solve this we extensively use an electronic colour wheel called Color Schemer. We bought the PC software but there is a free on-line tool at Color Schemer Online.
PowerConverter is a nifty little tool that can convert PowerPoint to Flash. It is a nice way to put a presentation online and you can include navigation. We found that it was not fully compatible with all of the animation settings but was a good way to put a presentation online.

Something new with PowerPoint 2010 is the ability to co-author through Windows Live – If you’re using PowerPoint for school work, presentations or training, you can edit the same presentation at the same time – even in different locations. This link should help: http://smb.ms/c1jB8K
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Jodi E.
Microsoft SMB Outreach Team
msftoft@microsoft.com