RECOMMENDATION

For people who create presendations, we strongly recommend Powerpoint for the following reasons:

• It is a user friendly software package; it has a combination user interface with pop-up menus, graphical icons and wizards to perform various functions.
• It has pre-designed templates and autolayouts.
• It has a number of text and image editing features such as:
  • changing size, font, colour and appearance of text
  • automatically changing the case of text
  • adding periods after sentences in a list
  • adding and deleting bullets to a list, changing the appearance of bullets
  • centering and aligning text blocks
  • adding lines and tables around text
  • cutting and pasting different sections of text and images
  • changing the orientation of text and images
• It also has a number of different print functions:
  • Black and white printing and
  • printing multiple copies and selected pages
• Powerpoint also enables a user to print a notes page for a speaker and different notes pages for the audience.
• A master page can also be made to include features that are common to all pages, for instance, to change the fonts on all the pages of a document, a user can just change the font on the master page and that change will carry on to all the pages.
• Powerpoint has an wide range of clip arts which can be inserted in a document to enhance its outlook.
• Powerpoint also enables a user to import tables and graphs from other programs such as Excel.

The correct usage of the above features can create a very robust presentation.

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