Powerpoint is still the king for presentations
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What is Microsoft Powerpoint?
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software designed to allow users to create slide-based presentations including video and images, as well as slide transitions and animations.
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What is Microsoft Powerpoint?
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software designed to allow users to create slide-based presentations including video and images, as well as slide transitions and animations.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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April 21, 2022
Easy, quick, fun
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I have used this as a learning tool in my previous job as a Registrar at Salem Health. The purpose was to inform myself and other employees of new healthcare regulation both federal and statewide. I have used this at least quarterly to go over proper PPE training and safety. In my current role I use PowerPoint to stay up-to-date on current laws and regulations that effect human resource professionals, employers, and employees.
- Presentation
- Ability to edit
- Layout options for each slide
- More development for slide animations
- More Design options aimed towards Business professionals
July 12, 2021
PowerPoint Delivers Quality
I preach and teach with [Microsoft] PowerPoint 3 times a [day]. It is a good way of sharing information and displaying photos that describe what I am talking about in my sermons and lesson. I have set up templates in PowerPoint to make it easier to use. Each updates from Microsoft makes it easier to use. There is a wealth of phots and clipart available with PowerPoint that makes my task easier to use. I use PowerPoint each and every day in preparation for my sermons.
- Insert Photos from my computer and from the web with ease.
- Auto arrangement of graphics and texts is made available through suggested formatting.
- Spell check as I type is very valuable to me. It autocorrects many words. I like for my presentation to be accurate.
- The ability to change any font or any size of font is very valuable to me.
- The ability to cut and past from Microsoft Word is valuable to me. It also allows me to import tables I have already created in Word.
- I would like for PowerPoint to automatically assume that I want my transitions to come from the left rather than from the bottom. I don't ever use a transition from the bottom.
- Learning the control keys has made my work much faster, but where to find the shortcut keys is a challenge. Maybe a menu for shortcut keys would be helpful.
- I like to save to my computer, PowerPoints wants everything to be save in OneDrive.
May 30, 2021
Microsoft PowerPoint is a Must Use
Every employee in our organization uses Microsoft PowerPoint. It is the standard for presentation software and is used by one hundred percent of our clients.
- Interfaces with other Office products
- Easy to find support
- I feel they change the interface and usability too often, requiring some re-learning.
- Some functionality is difficult to figure out.
- There are some things that it just doesn't do.
May 29, 2021
The gold standard for presentations
Our whole organization uses Microsoft Powerpoint at some point or another. It is a highly effective presentation tool that enables us to create powerful presentations, inductions, training materials and other documents that can easily be branded by the use of templates.
- HR Department use Microsoft Powerpoint for inductions.
- Learning and Development use Microsoft Powerpoint in delivery of training courses.
- Everyone is able to us Microsoft Powerpoint to delivery presentations, e.g. for sales, knowledge sharing, informing teams of changes, etc..
- There could be better functionality to manage Microsoft Powerpoint at an organisation level, although the GPO templates do provide some of that already.
Microsoft office Powerpoint is a great tool to visually present ideas, Powerpoint is an easy to use application to create amazing presentations.
We use Microsoft Office Powerpoint in meetings, knowledge sharing and in various sessions, I wish we have more premium templates available in Microsoft Office Powerpoint, everything else about this software is amazing.
We use Microsoft Office Powerpoint in meetings, knowledge sharing and in various sessions, I wish we have more premium templates available in Microsoft Office Powerpoint, everything else about this software is amazing.
- Templates
- Animations
- Transitions
- More templates.
- More animations.
- More transitions.
- Collaborative editing and commenting.
PowerPoint is the most common presentation tool used across the whole organization, it is standard on all desktops for all users. It is used to present information in meetings in person or online across all parts of the business and it does this very well - it has been a staple in this role for many years.
- Familiarity
- Generally easy to use
- Professional looking presentations
- Standard
- Go to for most people and most businesses
- There can be a slightly steep learning curve when getting started
- Not as fancy as newer products on the market
- It is not free
May 28, 2021
Presentations for all!
Powerpoint is used across our organization through pretty much all departments. Powerpoint has many functionalities revolving around presentations. This is used for both internal presentations and meetings, including our quarterly business reviews. Additionally, Powerpoint is used as a learning tool for certain training sessions and is good for displaying graphs and data.
- Great presentation tool for business with ability to display graphs and images
- Easy to use and very intuitive
- Relatively cheap and is used by most other organizations we interact with as well.
- Adding some media is a little more difficult (i.e. videos and having them always play)
- Creating a custom design and template is a good amount of work.
May 10, 2021
Powerful PowerPoint
PowerPoint is currently being used across our entire organization. Not only is it used extensively by every facilitator when designing learning material, but it is also used when we create presentations and concept designs for clients. It is used extensively for the design of infographics, for recorded classroom sessions, and for a multitude of template documents across the board.
- Presentations
- Interactive E-learning
- Infographic designs
- Document template designs
- The ease at which one can create scorm type content.
- The ability to paste pictures into tables.
- Jumping to a next slide when I am still working on the bottom of the previous slide.
August 31, 2020
Not just for presentations anymore
We use PowerPoint for almost everything: presentations, documents, printed materials, playbooks, etc. Whenever my design team tries to pull a design into Adobe Creative Cloud instead, it usually ends up back in PowerPoint. PPT is one application that allows you to be creative with create great designs, while still being editable by an entire team (not just the designers).
- Presentation mode animations: You can make things LOOK more creative and high-tech than they actually are when you apply the animations in clever ways.
- Text transform: Google and Apple's answers to PowerPoint are severely lacking in this area.
- Gives you free reign of the design of the page.
- It's easy to create layouts with the smart guides that appear as you move/resize objects.
- I WISH they had the option to export with bleeds, so you could use pages for large format printers.
- When you export a PDF from a letter or legal-sized paper, it adds a white border around the page, even when there was none in the design. As a designer, this drives me CRAZY.
- Adobe Creative Cloud allows you to move things slowly with the arrows, or in 10px increments when you hold the Shift and arrow key. In PowerPoint, when you hold shift and click the arrows, the shape resizes. It would be nice if there was another way to move things with the arrows in increments of 10px with PPT too.
- PPT claims to be able to embed fonts, but it only causes headaches. Every time we have a file that we want to embed fonts, all we get are error messages. It's infuriating that we can't use more customized fonts and share them with our clients. Everyone asks for standard system fonts, which makes the design bland.