PowerPoint (PPT) is a Microsoft Office application used to create exciting and colorful presentations, or "slide shows" as they are commonly referred. PowerPoint can be a wonderful classroom tool for you, the teacher, and for the student!

PowerPoint in Office 2000 and Office XP has made viewing your slide show presentation much easier. As shown below, the new viewing screen will show you slide show view, outline view, and notes page view for each slide.

Printing is still VERSATILE! This is nice, as full screen slides can take a while to print and can use more ink! J After choosing PRINT, look at the lower 1/3 of your PRINT window. There you will see an option called PRINT WHAT. Click on the Down arrow and you have the many options of printing.

You will convert your PowerPoint presentations to a web page. Office 97, choose SAVE AS HTML and follow the wizard prompts. In Office 2000 and XP, choose SAVE AS WEB PAGE and PowerPoint will create the folder with all your files!
** However, to best ensure that your presentation can be viewed using all browsers, follow these important steps before finally saving the document....**

• Choose "File," "Save as Web Page."
• Select the proper folder to save it, in the "Save in" box at the top and name you file as you would like it to appear (in the "File Name" box at the bottom).
• At the message "Save a copy and customize its contents" in the middle of the box, select the button "Publish."

• A new display with options will appear.  Under "Browser Support" choose "All browsers listed above (creates larger files)."

• Click the "Publish" button at the bottom of the display box.  This should save your powerpoint for viewing in all browsers.  Notice that it does not send you back to the "Save" options, so if you didn't change the file name before adjusting the publish/ browser options, you may want to repeat the steps in the order listed above.