Office 2021 for Macs For Dummies

Chapter 9

Getting to Know Microsoft PowerPoint

IN THIS CHAPTER

Using different views

Considering the 10/20/30 rule for your presentation’s content

Creating an outline of your presentation

PowerPoint is the Office app you use to create presentations, also known as slide shows. We’d be surprised if you haven’t seen someone using PowerPoint to deliver a message to a group at some point in your life. Heck, kids have been using PowerPoint for presentations at school for years.

A PowerPoint presentation is a series of slides that contain text, graphics, video, sound, or a combination of any of these elements. You can display everything on a slide all at one time or introduce individual items on a slide one at a time. You can also animate the transition from one slide to the next. Used judiciously, PowerPoint creates attractive, appealing, and dramatic slide shows that you can use to sell, convince, persuade, inform, entertain, and more. Put another way, when you have a point to make, PowerPoint helps you make it memorable.

You can share a PowerPoint presentation with other people in many ways. You can

• Project a presentation onto a large screen for a large audience.
• Show a presentation ...