4. Features of presentation software

What is it about presentation software that has made it such a popular choice to use when giving a presentation?

The software is incredibily easy to use. Even a novice can produce a reasonably good looking presentation with only a few minutes training.

The software comes with a large range of ready prepared templates. The text simply needs to be typed onto the page. There are also a huge number of professionally designed templates available to purchase fairly cheaply from the Internet.

There are a large selection of different layouts available. Each slide can have a different layout. One slide can have bullet points to the left of an image, another slide can have a main title and bullet points underneath, another one can have a graph or a hierarchy diagram.

A 'master slide' is available so that you can set up things which you wish to appear on every page such as a footer or page numbers or a title. You can choose text styles to apply throughout your presentation on the master slide.

The software comes with many different animation effects which can be used to add emphasis to presentations. It also has a large selection of slide transition effects that can be used when changing from one slide to the next.

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