DIS Information Technology Infrastructure Direction, Memo #4, Microsoft PowerPoint Software for Presentation Graphics

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 09:34:16 -0400
From: Gloria Stiltner <stiltner>
Reply-To: "Gloria J Stiltner, Chief, DIS, Reston, VA" <stiltner>
Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
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Subject: DIS Information Technology Infrastructure Direction, Memo #4, Microsoft PowerPoint Software

To:        All WRD Employees
 
 From:     Gloria Stiltner
           Chief, Distributed Information System Program Office
 
 Subject:  DIS Information Technology Infrastructure Direction, Memo #4,
           Microsoft PowerPoint Software for Presentation Graphics
 
 WRD employees often need to present technical information to a wide
 variety of audiences.  Presentations can be improved by using
 sophisticated presentation software such as Microsoft (MS) PowerPoint.
 PowerPoint provides tools to organize your ideas and create
 professional, compelling presentations.  Microsoft Office 97
 Professional Edition offers integrated software programs to help you
 do your work more efficiently.  In addition to PowerPoint for
 presentation graphics, MS Office Pro 97 includes Access (database),
 Excel (spreadsheet), Word (word processing), and more.
 
 With MS PowerPoint (and the appropriate peripheral hardware or a
 service bureau) you can create online presentations, 35mm slides,
 transparencies, audience handouts, speaker notes, posters, and an
 outline, all in a single presentation file.  PowerPoint provides
 extensive online help.  PowerPoint includes tools to help you create
 your presentation step by step, or you can use more than 30
 professionally designed templates with coordinated color schemes.
 Presentations can be as simple as text only, or as complex as text
 with clip art, images, charts, equations, photographs, sound, and
 multimedia effects.  You can record and save your own vocal delivery
 of your presentation.  PowerPoint automatically links the slides with
 the corresponding narrative for a self-running slide show you can
 place online or on disk for professional presentations to remote
 audiences.
 
 MS Office Pro 97, including PowerPoint, can be purchased through the
 Department of the Interior Microsoft Contract.  The cost for a single
 license is $303.80.  For contract details, see the following WWW Page:
 
   http://wwwqvarsa.er.usgs.gov/admin/doi-ms-contract.html
 
 There is abundant commercial documentation available for PowerPoint.
 Additionally, many local colleges/universities and local Adult
 Education programs provide PowerPoint training.  Standardization is
 good, and as more people across USGS use PowerPoint, there will be the
 capability to share PowerPoint slide presentations and components.
 
 User assistance for MS Office and PowerPoint is provided to WRD
 employees by the Distributed Information System (DIS) Program Office.
 PowerPoint users and potential users are encouraged to visit the DIS
 PowerPoint Support Web page at:
 
  
http://wwwqvarsa.er.usgs.gov/ms-office/powerpoint/powerpoint_help.html
 
 The page includes a wide range of topics and information designed to
 assist new and advanced users of PowerPoint.  Topics include:
 
 o What is PowerPoint
 o How to Get Help
 o How to Buy PowerPoint
 o USGS Examples and Templates (includes visual identity template)
 o User Tips
 o User Documentation
 o Training
 
 Questions may be sent in email to ms-office_help.