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A software package from Microsoft used to make slideshow presentations.
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Proficiency in PowerPoint continues to be required for almost every office job.
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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 many pillars will fit on a single slide.
Noun
An electronic slide presentation created using the program Microsoft PowerPoint.
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PowerPoint presentation
Sitting through his PowerPoints is a dull, but necessary, requisite for the job.
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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
Alas, our PowerPoint Generation gravitates to bullet points and two-dimensional bar charts, even as we stumble our way through this multidimensional universe.
Hine showed many of his paintings and pictures in a PowerPoint.
Through the new LEAD21 program, students research and put together a class presentation that will involve creating a PowerPoint and giving a speech based on their particular inquiry topic.
Any electronic slide presentation.
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She's asked James to prepare a PowerPoint for tomorrow's lesson.
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To communicate using electronic slides.
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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 readers may be interested to know that free software packages are available that can create professional presentations without furthering our national dependence on a software monopoly.
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
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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
To present (a topic) by means of electronic slides.
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Do they tell a person (as happens in one corporation) that they won't look at any report unless it is “PowerPointed”?
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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
As I write this, Gottfried is PowerPointing the concept around a string of high-level development companies across the United States.
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So we quickly and efficiently did our research and, in a blink of an eye, the “known unknowns” quickly became known and PowerPointed
To communicate to (an audience) by electronic slides.
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She says the audience has had a long day and has been "PowerPointed out" with one presentation after another from other Oracle executives
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,
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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