MICROSOFT OFFICE POWERPOINT

MS PowerPoint is a program that is included in the Microsoft Office suite. It is used to make presentations for personal and professional purposes. Given below are a few important things that one must know about the development and introduction of Microsoft PowerPoint:

  • The program was created in a software company named Forethought, Inc. by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin.

  • It was released on April 20, 1987, and after 3 months of its creation, it was acquired by Microsoft.

  • The first version of this program, when introduced by Microsoft was MS PowerPoint 2.0 (1990).

  • It is a presentation-based program that uses graphics, videos, etc. to make a presentation more interactive and interesting.

  • The file extension of a saved PowerPoint presentation is “.ppt”.

  • A PowerPoint presentation comprising slides and other features is also known as PPT.