what is the difference in products features and benefits of microsoft powerpoint 2000 and 2003?
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Opening screen\n\nPowerPoint 2003 opens in a new blank presentation, unlike earlier versions which presented a dialog box. Normal view is the main editing view, which you use to write and design your presentation.\n\n    Normal view\n\nThe view has three working areas:\n\n    *\n\n      on the left: tabs that enable you to display your slides as thumbnails (Slides tab) or as a text outline (Outline tab) \n    *\n\n      in the centre: the slide pane, which displays a large view of the current slide\n    *\n\n      on the bottom: the notes pane which enables you to create speaker notes\n\nMultiple slide masters\n\nMultiple slide masters let you combine more than one template in a presentation.\n\n    To use multiple slide masters:\n    1. Click on View | Master | Slide Master to display the slide master.\n    2. On the Formatting toolbar, click on the Design button to display the Slide Design task bar.\n    Slide Design task bar\n\n    3. In the Slide Design task pane, point to the design template you require, click on the arrow that is displayed, and then do one of the following:\n\n        * Click on Replace Selected Designs to replace selected masters with masters for the new design template.\n        * Click on Replace all Designs to replace all the current masters with masters for the new design template.\n        * Click on Add Design to add a new design template and its masters to the presentation.\n\n    Note: All the design templates you're currently using appear in the Slide Design task pane under Used in this presentation. You can apply them to slides when you're working in normal view.\n\n^\n\nRequire a password to open or change a presentation\n\nYou can now password protect your presentation.\n\n    To password protect a presentation:\n    1. Open the presentation you wish to create a password for.\n    2.  Click on Tools | Options to display the Options dialog box.\n    3. Click on the Security tab.\n    Security Options\n\n    4.  Do one of the following:\n\n        * To require a password to open a presentation, type a password in the Password to open box, then click on the OK button.\n        * To require a password to modify a presentation, type a password in the Password to modify box, then click on the OK button.\n\n    5. When prompted to confirm the password, retype the password, then click on the OK button.\n\n    Note: Use a password that you can remember so that you don't have to write it down. If you lose the password, you cannot open or gain access to the password-protected presentation.\n\n^\n\nView Presentations in Print Preview\n\nPowerPoint 2003 allows you to view your presentations in print preview. You can also view your slides in greyscale or in pure black and white, before printing them to a black and white printer.\n\n    To view presentations in Print Preview\n    1. Click on File | Print Preview or click on the Print Preview button.\n    2. Click on Options | Color/Greyscale\n\n    3. Click on Grayscale or Pure Black and White.\n\n^\n\nPackage for CD Feature\n\nYou can now package your presentations and all of the supporting files (including linked files),  and automatically run them from the CD. The updated PowerPoint Viewer is included on the CD when you package your presentations, which enables you to show your presentation on a computer that does not have PowerPoint installed.\n\nNote This feature was called Pack and Go in previous versions of PowerPoint.\n\n    To package a presentation for CD:\n    1. Open the presentation you wish to package.\n    2. Insert a CD into the CD drive.\n\n        *\n\n          You will need one of the following types of CDs: a blank recordable CD (CD-R), a blank rewritable CD (CD-RW), or a CD-RW with existing content that can be overwritten.\n        *\n\n          If you use a CD-R, make sure you copy all the files you need onto the CD the first time. After the files are copied, you can't add more files to the CD.\n\n    3. Click on Fil
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PowerPoint has "blank presentation", and it does come with Microsoft Small Business on XP Pro.
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You can download the PowerPoint viewer here:\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en\nBut this will only let you view presentations.\n\nIf you want to be able to create presentations from PowerPoint, then you'll have to go to a store and buy the software.
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This website provides information on the cost of different versions of MS Office 2003.
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PowerPoint is part of Microsoft Office, together with Word, Excel and Access. If you don't have Office, you should install it. Of course you have to purchase it first.\n\nIf you have problem getting a licensed version of Office, I recommend using open Office from Sun http://www.openoffice.org/. It has a PowerPoint like program IMPRESS which can even save presentations in PowerPoint format. Enjoy it!
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You must purchase Microsoft Office, either the student version or the standard version to obtain Powerpoint so that you can make your own powerpoint presentations.\n\ngreetz brimu
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You cannot legally download a full version of PowerPoint, however you can order a free trial version of MS Office which will be fully functional for 30 days' time. The disk will be sent to you from Microsoft - they would not want/let you copy their software onto your own media.\n\nOther Options:\n\nIf you don't need to create MS PowerPoint presentations but do need to be able to view them, there is also a free downloadable viewer - you can view and print using that download.\n\nIf you need to be able to create full presentations for more than 30 days in the future, your options are to buy MS office or find an alternative program. One easy and free alternative is Open Office's "IMPRESS."
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You can do either one.  If you go to microsoft's homepage you can get a cheat-sheat that tells you how to do it.\nhttp://office.microsoft.com/training\nSo that's how! Great PowerPoint features\n\nGood Luck
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you can only make presentations with powerpoint. With the viewer you can only view them.
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you need to have a program to open powerpoint, it usually comes with full microsoft office installs, or you can get it free with open office software. either one will work, if you dont have either of these installed, I'd go with open office, its upgraded frequently and it's free
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As one other person mentioned, you can download openoffice which works like PowerPoint. Another choice is to use the free online software at http://online.thinkfree.com -- it has a Word, Excel, and PowerPoint compatible software that you use in your Web browser. That means you can access your files (up to 30MB) anywhere. And you can save or load from your local disk too. It also saves PDFs. I use it all the time.
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Windows 2000 and Windows XP are essentially the same operating system (known internally as Windows NT 5.0 and Windows NT 5.1, respectively.) Here are some considerations if you're trying to decide which version to use:\n\nWindows 2000 benefits\n\n    * Windows 2000 has lower system requirements, and has a simpler interface (no "Styles" to mess with).\n    * Windows 2000 is slightly less expensive, and has no product activation.\n    * Windows 2000 has been out for a while, and most of the common problems and security holes have been uncovered and fixed.\n    * Third-party software and hardware products that aren't yet XP-compatible may be compatible with Windows 2000; check the manufacturers of your devices and applications for XP support before you upgrade. \n\nWindows XP benefits\n\n    * Windows XP is somewhat faster than Windows 2000, assuming you have a fast processor and tons of memory (although it will run fine with a 300Mhz Pentium II and 128MB of RAM).\n    * The new Windows XP interface is more cheerful and colorful than earlier versions, although the less-cartoony "Classic" interface can still be used if desired.\n    * Windows XP has more bells and whistles, such as the Windows Movie Maker, built-in CD writer support, the Internet Connection Firewall, and Remote Desktop Connection.\n    * Windows XP has better support for games and comes with more games than Windows 2000.\n    * Windows XP is the latest OS - if you don't upgrade now, you'll probably end up migrating to XP eventually anyway, and we mere mortals can only take so many OS upgrades.\n    * Manufacturers of existing hardware and software products are more likely to add Windows XP compatibility now than Windows 2000 compatibility.
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PowerPoint is available for Windows and Mac.  It can be exported (not so successfully) for viewing on the web.  The web versions do not work well in the Office XP, Office 2003 versions.  I have not tried the Office 2004 for Mac conversion to web.\n\nPowerPoint is not available for Linux or other (non-Mac) Unix variants.
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I think u can try it with Microsoft Office 2003.
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Animation Schemes in PowerPoint 2002/2003\n\nPowerPoint 2002 and later provides a host of new animation effects. In addition to that it also supports animation schemes. Animation schemes let you apply a pre-designed animation and transition effects set to your entire presentation at once. This can also be done on a side-by-slide basis. The Animation Schemes task pane lets you choose the animation scheme that's right for your target audience. \n\nThe best part is that you can add/modify and distribute animation schemes of your own. All the schemes are present in a read-only file quikanim.ppt located in C:&#92;Program Files&#92;Microsoft Office&#92;Office10&#92;1033 (the path may vary depending on the drive and installation folder). This file is essentially a normal PowerPoint file. You can open the file in PowerPoint directly. However it is best to remove the read-only flag before opening it. It is crucial that you follow the structure of the presentation while editing anything within else you may encountered PowerPoint errors when you use animation schemes.\n\nRelated: Animation Carbon\n\nThe presentation is structured as follows: \n\nEach animation scheme has two slides. \n\nFirst one for the title slides and second one for the non-title slides.  \n\nThe title of the slide is the category the schemes is in (e.g., Subtle).  The body of the slide is the name of the scheme (e.g., Flash Bulb). \n\nAnimation schemes only apply animations from the title and body placeholders (plus any slide transition).  so you can just add animations to the body & title placeholders in the slides. Once you have added new schemes you can save the file and close it. Launch the  animation schemes from the panes and there you are - the new custom schemes listed!\n\nYou can distribute such schemes however there can only be one quikanim.ppt that can exist on a machine. So be careful that you do not overwrite existing schemes.\n\nSteps to create an animation scheme:\n\nUsing Windows explorer navigate to the folder containing the file 'QuikAnim.ppt' on your machine.\n\nCreate a backup copy of the file so that you can replace it later in case anything goes wrong with the original file.\n\nSelect the file and right-click the mouse and select Properties in the QuikAnim Properties window select the General tab.\n\nUncheck the Read only file attribute and click on OK.\n\nDouble click on the file to launch PowerPoint and open the file for editing.\n\nPress Ctrl + End to move to the last slide in the presentation. \n\nSelect Insert | New slide... .\n\nApply a Title Slide layout to this slide\n\nEnter the category name in the Title placeholder of the slide. For example: User Defined.\n\nEnter the name of this animation scheme in the Sub Title placeholder. For example: Simple Animation.\n\nRight-click on the Title placeholder, select Custom Animation... and add effects which are to applied to the Title placeholder of the Title slide whenever this animation scheme is applied.\n\nRepeat the process for the animations to be applied to the Sub Title placeholder.\n\nWe have now completed creating an animation scheme for the Title Slide.  Now we need to insert another slide, this slide will contain the animation scheme for the non-title slides.\n\nSelect Insert | Duplicate slide... .\n\nApply a Title & Text layout to this duplicated slide.\n\nApply custom animations to the placeholder shapes as done earlier.\n\nApply a slide transition to this slide, if required. The slide transition set is a part of the animation scheme.\n\nWe have completed adding one custom animation scheme. Repeat this process for as many custom schemes you wish to design.\n\nSave the presentation.\n\nClose the presentation.\n\nQuit PowerPoint\n\nHead back to Windows explorer and select the file (QuikAnim.ppt) and set it's Read-only attribute to True. Click on OK.\n\nLaunch PowerPoint\n\nOpen a new presentation.\n\nSelect Format | Slide Design. In the Slide Design Task Pane select An
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In PowerPoint 2003 the command prompts are:\n\nINSERT - \n\nMOVIES & SOUND - \n\nMOVIE FROM CLIP ORGANIZER / MOVIE FROM FILE.\n\n\nBe careful if you want to burn the PPT onto a CD.  If you run the movie clip from your own PC it will work fine, but it is a little different if you want to embed the clip for CD burning or emailing purposes. If you do that make sure your file import size is not capped and test it on the other system before you do your presentation before a crowd.\n\nGood luck.
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