Infuse power into your presentation

‘Power Point’ is one of the most-used softwares to present ideas and creative works in a systematic and attractive way. Microsoft Corporation has added many features in its recent edition to make the software more useful than before by providing varied themes, layouts and transition. Since most of us use the same software, it restricts users to create something different from their colleagues or classmates and make a mark in a presentation or meeting.

This week we bring you a few good alternatives, available online and offline, to Power Point. Some website will allow you to create your presentation without including slides in it and some others will allow you to save it on the Internet for easy access and for showing to online audience. Users can find Power Point presentations on topics of their choice for reference on many websites. Users who do not have Power Point installed in their computers can use similar applications available online for free.

Prezi—the zooming presentation editor—allows users to keep all their data—pictures, videos, images and other content--on a virtual canvas. Users need not switch slides to display their content as it provides an option to create a desired path for showing content to the viewers. Zooming in and out feature makes the presentation easy to browse between different content on the canvas. 

Users can import pdf files and Power Point slides to the canvas to make a cinematic presentation. One can create a presentation online by registering themselves on the website http://www.prezi.com. The website has its iPad app too. Users can make presentation for free using the basic account of the website but they will have to subscribe to its premium account for using additional features.  

Slideshare is a website for sharing presentations online and having a look at what others have uploaded. You can keep your presentation private or public.  The website is known for having a huge collection of Power Point presentations on varied topics and themes. Users who are new to Power Point can visit the website to get an idea as to how  a presentation is made on a given subject.

 Google Docs also provides similar features and services. Apart from providing an option to create presentations, Slide Rocket is a website that enables users to link YouTube videos and flicker pictures and flash animations to their presentations.

The open-source utility software Open office is yet another alternative to Power Point and allows  one to use applications similar to those that comes  with Microsoft Office (MS) suite. And if anyone does not have Power Point pre-installed on their computers they can download the desktop version of Open Office to gain hands-on-experience on MS office applications.