Newest version is an indespensible office software necessity.

The basics are easy to grasp. . .and after some practice you can have some fun with presentations. Only downside is cost if you have to buy it outside of a package that comes already installed on your computer (or is included with your purchase)

Strange how the magic of a power point presentation can make anyone believe anything. I've seen presentations that looked great but had anti-intellectual messages no better than "The Moon is made of Marshmellow" and (because it was on POWERPOINT) some weak-spirited members of the audience gave it credence.

"P.P.-generation"?

I use MS power point for all presentations.

Hard to pass Powerpoint in versitility, but still has the inherent MS Office security flaws to contend with.

use it all the time!

Veery excellent presentation Application! Very impressive things you can do to impress your boss! doesnt use too much ram as powerpoint 2002. I have MS Office 2003 and I love it!

I don't think most people realize the huge number of functions and uses this program has. This is not just a dinky little program to use for slide shows. It is a powerful, professional level piece of software that has the ability to utilize sound, animation, has many transitional effects and can handle the insertion of animated graphics. I have used this to create many presentations used in educational TV productions in the past. Part of my current job now is the management of a cable access channel on which I continually run public service announcements, which I create and run ala PowerPoint. And the result is a much more interesting and less expensive presentation than the character generated PSA's we once ran. I couldn't do without it and consider it to be well worth the money!

Definitely took a while to figure it all out in terms of all the stuff you can do. Of course I didn't have a booklet and no one to show me but once I got it going I found it to be quite impressive.

This is not a very intuitive program. However, once you have used it for a while, you will find that you are able to do anything you need to do to make slick presentations. It's not something you can pick up in a couple of hours though...

Well this is very good for printing project reports.