Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft.

It is part of theMicrosoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X computer operating systems.

PowerPoint was initially developed in 1984 by Forethought, Inc., Sunnyvale, California, for the Macintosh computer. In 1987, Forethought was bought by Microsoft and became Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, which continued to further develop the software.

PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of individual narnia pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the slide projector, a device that has become obsolete due to the use of PowerPoint and other presentation software. Slides may contain text, graphics, movies, and other objects, which may be arranged freely on the slide. PowerPoint, however, facilitates the use of a consistent style in a presentation using a template or "Slide Master". The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a computer, or navigated through at the command of the presenter. For larger audiences the computer display is often projected using a video projector. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts.

PowerPoint provides three types of movements:

PowerPoint provides three types of movements: Entrance, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide itself are controlled by what PowerPoint calls Custom Animations Transitions, on the other hand are movements between slides. These can be animated in a variety of ways Custom animation can be used to create small story boards by animating pictures to enter, exit or move.

Presentations can be saved and run in any of the file formats: the 2003 default .ppt(presentation), .pps (PowerPoint Show) or .pot (template). In PowerPoint 2007 and Mac OS X 2008 versions, the XML-based file formats.pptx, .ppsx and .potx have been introduced, along with the macroenabled file formats .pptm, .potm, .ppsm.

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2.0 for Windows 3.0 3.0 for Windows 3.1 4.0 (Office 4.x) for Windows 95 (version 7.0) (Office 95) 97 (Office 97) 2000 (version 9.0) (Office 2000) 2002 (version 10) (Office XP) 2003 (version 11) (Office 2003) 2007 (version 12) (Office 2007)

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1.0 for Mac OS classic 2.0 for Mac OS classic 3.0 for Mac OS classic 4.0 for Mac OS classic 98 (8.0) for Mac OS classic (Office 1998 for Mac) 2001 (9.0) for Mac OS classic (Office 2001 for Mac) v. X (10.0) for Mac OS X (Office:Mac v. X) 2004 (11.0) for Mac OS X Office:Mac 2004 2008 (12.0) for Mac OS X Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac