Microsoft PowerPoint

Presentation creation program

Microsoft PowerPoint is presentation software used to create slideshows combining text, images, and graphics.

PowerPoint dominates business and educational presentations: She put together a PowerPoint for the quarterly meeting.

The name often stands in generically for any slideshow presentation: Can you send me your PowerPoint?

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Opposites
presentation software vs. other productivity software types

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Microsoft Excel · spreadsheet software · command line interface · terminal · Microsoft Word

visual/polished presentation vs. raw/unformatted content

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raw data · handwritten notes · stream of consciousness · rough draft

slideware culture vs. alternative communication approaches

Microsoft PowerPointSocratic dialogue

Inquiry through successive questions

conversation · white paper

Family

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Familiarity
Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G