A Beginner’s Guide to Presentation Software

Presentation software is software that enables the creation of visual presentations. The presentations can be created in a number of formats but are normally delivered in slide show formats. Some of the common utilities of presentation software include teaching to a group of students about a complex subject or launching or promoting of products or service, enlightening employees about the new policies or concepts as well as making a project proposal to a group of professional people.

Presentation software is available for Windows and also Mac operating systems. Some commonly used presentation software is MS PowerPoint for Windows and Apple Keynote for Mac platform. And Google has also come up with new presentation software named Google Docs. In case you want to create a slideshow without incurring the high cost involved in software for commercial presentation then Open Office Impress would be a better option for the purpose. Google Docs also is a free of cost presentation software.

All presentation software lets users to make slide show presentations but the methods to view the presentation differ from one software to the other. MS PowerPoint and Impress enables the user to make the presentation on full screen by using a monitor, and it gives the presenter an option either to automatically time the slide changes or do it manually by clicking through it during presentations. It is also possible to move the presentation to a large screen by making use of projector or similar accessories.

Google Docs has an option to save the presentation in PowerPoint format so that the user has an option to view it in either of the formats, and is also useful to those who do not have power point to create the presentations. There are few presentation software that also allows the export of presentation in flash or PDF format for easy distribution. Flash based presentations are the best for online slide shows due to the fact that almost all systems have adobe flash player installed.

In case presentation software is used to create webinar presentations, it gives users an option to sign up for service that allows conference or screen sharing with others. This necessarily means that webinar participants can watch presentation on their computer while listening to the audio of the same through a phone call. It is also possible to record the webinars just to show the presentation and the audio through phone call for viewing purpose.

The ability to convey messages to a group of people has become much simpler with presentation software than other kinds of communications. It is a visual treat when the text and graphics are combined in presentation. It is a boon to both audio and visual learners to understand the information.