Originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called "Presenter", developed by Thomas Rudkin and Dennis Austin[3] of Forethought, Inc.[4] In 1987, it was renamed to "PowerPoint" due to problems with trademarks, the idea for the name coming from Robert Gaskins.[5] By then some experts believed that "desktop presentations", using computers to create flip charts and overhead transparencies, could become as large a market as desktop publishing.[6] That year Forethought was bought by Microsoft for $14 million[7][6] ($29.2 million in present-day terms[8]), and became Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, which continued to develop the software further. Microsoft's version of PowerPoint was officially launched on May 22, 1990, the same day that Microsoft released Windows 3.0. PowerPoint introduced many new changes with the release of PowerPoint 97. It incorporated the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language, underlying all macro generation in Office 97. PowerPoint 2000 (and the rest of the Office 2000 suite) introduced a clipboard that could hold multiple objects at once, and the Office Assistant was made less intrusive. PowerPoint 2002 massively overhauled the animation engine, allowing users to create more advanced and custom animations. PowerPoint 2011 makes it possible to remove image backgrounds, and provides additional special effects for pictures, such as 'Pencil effects'. As of 2012, various versions of PowerPoint claim ~95% of the presentation software market share, with installations on at least 1 billion computers. Among presenters world-wide, this program is used at an estimated frequency of 350 times per second
Project PPT-1 Favorites Menu
Project Description Lettuce-Do-Lunch is trying some new advertising strategies and would like to create a slide show featuring its menu items. The owner , James Hungry , has decided to feature a favorites menu each month, sometimes showing a new menu item, and other times showing a customer favorite. The slide show will be seen while customers order at the counter. He hopes this will be cost-effective and increase attention to the various menu items.
My job was to ; As the Microsoft power point specialist , I created a slide show with pictures of the food items being promoted for specific week within a given month. There will occasions when some items will repeat. When an item is promoted on the favorites menu, it will have a special price listed on the slide. I used photos rather than clip art to show the menu items. The owner allowed me to make the appropriate selections based on the descriptions he had provided.
New Skills
Changing line spacing
Adding slide transitions
Setting up a slide show to loop continuously
Project PPT-2 How to Detail a Car
Project Description Jazz My Wheels is developing a curriculum for its staff. One of the support tools being created is a set of slide show presentation. A set of four slid shows will be developed as visual aids to support the classroom experience
My job was to As the Microsoft PowerPoint specialist, I designed and developed the first slide show of the Basic Car Series titled, " How To Detail Your Car
New Skills
Using Word Art
Changing back round colors
Formatting text using an emboss effect (optional)
Formatting an action button
Project PPT-3
Project Description University of learning will be holding a Welcome to our campus orientation. College Concierge is creating a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation for their client, University of learning, that will showcase the new student services being offered
My Job As the Microsoft power point specialist, I will develop a slide show that is clear and to the point ,simple to follow, and interesting enough to keep the viewers attention. The client will provide the content, but it will not be broken down in a simplistic way, so you will need to make some decisions about what and how much to include.
New Skills
Using text boxes
Inserting a graphic and resizing it
Running a slide show
Saving the presentation
Printing using handouts
Using bullets
Project PPT-4 Cleaning Demostration
Project Description Squeaky clean has come up with a marketing idea to offer a presentation showing cleaning demonstrations to organizations in the area. Create a PowerPoint slide show for squeaky clean that provides a short presentation about their services. The audience will be youth organizations whose participants' mothers have complained that there kids are not motivated to do their chores. Squeaky clean wants to offer some cleaning t