HISTORY OF MICROSOFT

POWERPOINT
 HISTORY OF MICROSOFT POWERPOINT
• Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program,[7] created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin[7] at a software company named Forethought,
Inc.[7] It was released on April 20, 1987,[8] initially for Macintosh computers only.[7] Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for $14 million three
months after it appeared.[9] This was Microsoft's first significant acquisition,[10] and Microsoft set up a new business unit for PowerPoint in
Silicon Valley where Forethought had been located.[10] Microsoft PowerPoint is one of many programs run by the company Microsoft and can
be identified by its trademark orange, and P initial on the logo. It offers users many ways to display information from simple presentations to
complex multimedia presentations.

• PowerPoint became a component of the Microsoft Office suite, first offered in 1989 for Macintosh[11] and in 1990 for Windows,[12] which
bundled several Microsoft apps. Beginning with PowerPoint 4.0 (1994), PowerPoint was integrated into Microsoft Office development, and
adopted shared common components and a converged user interface.[13]

• PowerPoint's market share was very small at first, prior to introducing a version for Microsoft Windows, but grew rapidly with the growth of
Windows and of Office.[14](pp402–404) Since the late 1990s, PowerPoint's worldwide market share of presentation software has been
estimated at 95 percent.[15]

• PowerPoint was originally designed to provide visuals for group presentations within business organizations, but has come to be very widely
used in many other communication situations, both in business and beyond.[16] The impact of this much wider use of PowerPoint has been
experienced as a powerful change throughout society,[17] with strong reactions including advice that it should be used less,[18] should be used
differently,[19] or should be used better.[20]

• The first PowerPoint version (Macintosh 1987) was used to produce overhead transparencies,[21] the second (Macintosh 1988, Windows 1990)
could also produce color 35mm slides.[21] The third version (Windows and Macintosh 1992) introduced video output of virtual slideshows to
digital projectors, which would over time completely replace physical transparencies and slides.[21] A dozen major versions since then have
added many additional features and modes of operation[13] and have made PowerPoint available beyond Apple Macintosh and Microsoft
Windows, adding versions for iOS, Android, and web access
PARTS & FUNCTIONS OF MICROSOFT
POWERPOINT
 PARTS & FUNCTIONS OF MICROSOFT
POWERPOINT
• OUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR-CONSIST A SET OF COMMANDS
• TITLE BAR-WHERE THE FILE NAME WILL SEE HERE AFTER SAVING A FILE
• CONTROL TOOLBOX-CLOSE,MAXIMIZE,MINIMIZE,WINDOWS
• TAB MENU-BELOW THE TITLE BAR,RELATES THE MENU
• RIBBON MENU-CONTAINS ALL COMMANDS
• SLIDE SORTER-POSITIONS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR INTERFACE ARRANGE IN
VERTICAL ORDER
• SLIDE TEMPLATE-THE PART YOU CAN START YOUR DESIGN
• ANIMATION PANE-DISPLAYS ANIMATION,FUNCTIONS,USE IN YOUR SLIDE
• ZOOM IN AND OUT SLIDING BAR-USE TO ENLARGE AND DECREASE THE VIEW OF
YOUR SLIDE
• NOTES PANE-TYPES NOTES THAT YOU CAN ACCOMPANY A SLIDE
• STATUS BAR-THE NUMBER OF SLIDES AND THE SLIDE YOURE IN