Concepts

What can you do with PowerPoint?

PowerPoint is primarily a tool for creating slides. You can print and distribute the slides or display them to an audience from a computer using an overhead projector.

Here are some other features of PowerPoint:

1. You can apply a consistent color scheme and format to all slides using design templates
2. PowerPoint provides some help with the content or structure of your presentations with presentation templates. Presentation templates are complete presentations, sans details, for standard types of presentations including motivating a team, presenting a technical report, and project status.
3. PowerPoint has many different built-in types of transitions and effects.
4. You can add speaker's notes to slides and print a special copy of slides that includes the speaker's notes.
5. You can add sound and video to slides.

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