title: Adding power to PowerPoint. Add-ons and plug-ins.
abstract: Microsoft's PowerPoint (PPT) has been around for about ten years. It works on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. Many users have a Macintosh at home and a Windows PC in the office and files can be easily transferred. Presentations magazine estimated that 85 percent of all presentations given in the U.S. last year used PPT. These presentations can be done as 35 mm slides, black and white or color overhead transparencies, electronic lectures or the software can be used to produce pages for Web sites. PPT has become the "Swiss Army Knife" for presenters and can be found everywhere. Since PPT has such a large share of the marketplace, a secondary market has developed to cater to PPT users who need something that didn't come in the box. These products are referred to as add-ons or plug-ins. They are available as commercial products, shareware or even directly from Microsoft. This article will look at several of these add-ons and discuss their possible use in a health care media production environment.
authors.affiliation: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giannavola
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003200:Computer User Training; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008488:Medical Illustration; D012984:Software