PowerPoint
A software package from Microsoft used to make slideshow presentations.
Proper noun
- A software package from Microsoft used to make slideshow presentations.
- Proficiency in PowerPoint continues to be required for almost every office job.
- Can I be candid? I think I am on this group because none of you can do PowerPoint. I am literally going to draw some rectangle shapes for the pillars. We won’t be having feathers or whatever. And there’s a limit to how...
Synonyms: PPT
Derived
death by PowerPoint PowerPointer PowerPoint karaoke PowerPointlessness PowerPoint ranger PPT
Noun
- An electronic slide presentation created using the program Microsoft PowerPoint.
- PowerPoint presentation
- Sitting through his PowerPoints is a dull, but necessary, requisite for the job.
- The PowerPoint is the summation of Rove's thinking about the 2006 elections, in which Republicans lost 30 seats in the House and six in the Senate - 2007 July 24, “Capitol Briefing - Rove-Taylor PowerPoint”, in...
Synonyms: PPT
- Any electronic slide presentation.
- She's asked James to prepare a PowerPoint for tomorrow's lesson.
Forms
Verb
- To communicate using electronic slides.
- A recent editorial and tips in this journal have extolled the virtues of making clear presentations using computer presentation software, in particular the commercial software PowerPoint (Microsoft, Redmond, WA). AJR...
- Levi seems to be able to do all the slide shows and videos and PowerPointing his teachers ask of him -- as long as he's patient with its slow pace - 2010 March 28, “Time for a New Computer? Yes! No Way!”, in Wall Street...
- As the world is now texting, tweeting, and PowerPointing all over the place, this edition of English Grammar For Dummies shows you how to handle all sorts of electronic communications - 2010, Geraldine Woods, English...
- To present (a topic) by means of electronic slides.
- Do they tell a person (as happens in one corporation) that they won't look at any report unless it is “PowerPointed”? - 2005, John Elliott with T J Elliott, Decision DNA, number 1, page 105:
- In one poignant moment, Hanks is sitting in on an executive meeting at a major toy company, and one vice president is PowerPointing his way through a presentation about a new toy - 2005, Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz,...
- As I write this, Gottfried is PowerPointing the concept around a string of high-level development companies across the United States. - 2008, James Glave, Almost green: how I built an eco-shed, ditched my SUV, alienated...
- To communicate to (an audience) by electronic slides.
- She says the audience has had a long day and has been "PowerPointed out" with one presentation after another from other Oracle executives - 2004, Matthew Symonds with Larry Ellison, Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of...
- Now it is time to take your tired-as-hell, PowerPointed-to-death brain and shake things up so that you have the ideas, energy, - 2010, Pamela Slim, Escape from Cubicle Nation:
- Instead of being talked at, briefed, and PowerPointed, you will be drawing on your experience, listening to others, and figuring out what it all means - 2010, Marvin Weisbrod with Sandra Janoff, Future Search: Getting...