Using Microsoft Office for Multimedia:
PowerPoint
With PowerPoint 97, you can easily organize, powerfully illustrate, and professionally deliver your ideas. Whether conducting an informal meeting, presenting to an audience, or delivering your message over the Internet, you’ll have the tools you need to communicate with impact. PowerPoint 97 is designed to help the user to integrate the entire information and data into a multimedia presentation.
The essence of this software is the ability to integrate different type of media into an interactive dialogue: text with picture and graphics, sound and video with the ability to construct a very complicated “story” that convey an idea, thoughts, practical program, etc.
Practical knowledge of PowerPoint includes the understanding of the potential of the software and the competency to build a multi-dimensional presentation using all types of multimedia objects available.
There are six types of objects:
- Text
- Graphics
- Pictures
- Sound
- Animation
- video
In this screen shot we see a sound file, a map, various icons and pictures all imported from the Internet.
Now you can go back to Excel or Word
