PowerPoint Courses

While PowerPoint and Word share much of the same text editing and formatting functionality, their purpose differs significantly. Microsoft Word is a word processing program used for creating text-centric content such as reports, articles, forms, letters, blog posts, and other documents. PowerPoint, on the other hand, is used to present a lot of information with as little text as possible, i.e., through short bullet points, charts, images, videos, and other visuals that communicate main points and are easy for viewers to digest quickly. You cannot use either program to create the same document types easily. Creating a graphical presentation in Word is much more complicated than creating it in PowerPoint. The programs enable some collaboration between them. For example, you can create an outline in Word and import it to PowerPoint to make a presentation.

Some of the more popular presentation alternatives to PowerPoint are Google Slides, Prezi for Business, Visme, and Keynote. As a cloud-based tool, Google Slides makes online sharing and real-time collaboration easy, along with the ability to publish a slideshow presentation on the internet. It supports embedding videos, creating diagrams, and adding animations to slides. In Prezi, instead of using slides, you use a canvas to create a non-linear presentation, either from a Prezi template or an existing PowerPoint presentation. With the Visme app, you can build a slideshow from scratch using a variety of templates, themes, and a large selection of graphics and images. Keynote works on a Mac or Apple mobile device or through iWork for iCloud on a PC. It's great for creating customizable presentations and comes with about 30 themes and a variety of stock photos that you can start with. Zoho and SlideRocket are among the other popular alternatives to PowerPoint.