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As you have learned in the previous tutorial, PowerPoint is an effective way to create presentations. So what exactly can you do with it? Well, we are going to talk about all of the many different things that you can do throughout the rest of this entire tutorial segment in CD, but we will start out with a quick sort of global overview of what all you can do with PowerPoint, and this is by no means inclusive, but it gives you a first look at what all you can expect. First of all, you can obviously create effective on-screen presentations and that is the overall goal of PowerPoint is that you can take information, organize it effectively, and put together an effective, professional-looking presentation quickly and easily. You can also create professional presentations using templates. PowerPoint develops the background materials and the overall screen colors that you see through the use of templates. You simply click a template and then insert whatever information that you want, type that information in, and you are good to go. PowerPoint has already done all the hard work for you. For example on this screen, you see a basic template that PowerPoint provides. None of the graphics that you see here I had to create on my own, it's completely done by PowerPoint automatically. This way you can quickly create those presentations, you are assured that they are going to look great, all of your colors are going to match, and you can spend time working on content rather than graphics. You can also create custom presentations, PowerPoint doesn't limit you because you can take what PowerPoint provides, change any thing that you want, create your own custom background, your own custom colors, your own custom designs. You can completely customize everything that you do with PowerPoint and how much work and time you want to put into it is entirely up to you. You can also quickly create text slides, the basics of a presentation is to provide you with bullet points and numbered lists, because these kind of bullet points, such as the one you see here, communicate easily to an audience. With PowerPoint they are already prefabricated for you to use, you simply have to plug in the information, but you can also customize them in any way that you want. You can also quickly create charts, graphs, shape drawings, and much more. For example, you can also create different kinds of graphics, charts, pie graphs, comparative graphs and there is all kinds of options. You can even create something in Microsoft Excel and then import it directly into PowerPoint. So you will find creating charts, graphs, and things of that nature are simple, effective and they are very easy and once again PowerPoint does most of the work for you. You can also insert photos and clip art. If you are going to be showing some photos, no problem. PowerPoint will handle bringing them in, aligning them on the page, but you still maintain complete control and you can change them in anyway that you want. You can also use Microsoft Office's clip art gallery for any kind of clip art that you might want to use. You can also insert movies, sounds, and more. Using PowerPoint, you can show movie clips directly within your PowerPoint presentation, you can insert sound effects, you can record narration, and do just about anything that you want. You can even run a CD during a presentation and play music directly from the CD that aligns with your PowerPoint slides. You can also use transitions and animation effects; I am using an animation effect in what you see here with the bullet points flying onto the screen. This allows you to completely control your presentations and make them look the way that you want, in an effective manner. You can create web and automated presentations. You are not just stuck doing on-screen presentations; you can absolutely automate them for web display, and for other on-screen types of presentations, such as at a trade show, you don't have to stand there and baby-sit it. PowerPoint can simply run itself; it's completely your decision. You can also let PowerPoint help you practice. PowerPoint can help you learn how to time your slides, give you an overall timing feature that you can use when you are practicing your own presentations. Overall, PowerPoint is a great tool. It's a key to effective presentations and once you begin using PowerPoint and learn how to master its abilities, you will see a great increase in the way you that you create presentations and the way that you give presentations because, after all, PowerPoint's goal is to help you effectively communicate in your own presentations.