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Presentation slide

{{Short description|Single page or image of a presentation}}

A slide is a single page of a presentation. A group of slides is called a slide deck. A slide show is an exposition of a series of slides or images in an electronic device or on a projection screen. Before personal computers, they were 35 mm slides viewed with a slide projector{{cite book|last1=Alley|first1=Michael|title=The Craft of Scientific Presentations|date=2003|publisher=Springer-Verlag|location=New York|isbn=0-387-95555-0|page=102|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rs7vBwAAQBAJ&q=35+mm+slide+presentation&pg=PA102|access-date=12 January 2017}} or transparencies viewed with an overhead projector.

In the digital age, a slide most commonly refers to a single page developed using a presentation program such as MS PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, Google Slides, Apache OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Some are created with document markup language, such as the LaTeX-class Beamer. Lecture notes in slide format are lecture slides, frequently downloadable by students in .ppt or .pdf format.

Production software

By the 1980s, presentation software created slides, with companies offering their development and delivery as fast as the next day.{{Cite magazine |last=Meilach |first=Dona Z. |date=1987-08-17 |title=Graphics Product Excels in Slide Making Capacity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2jsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=true |access-date=2025-05-25 |magazine=InfoWorld |pages=47-51 |volume=9 |issue=33}} Presentation slides can be created in many pieces of software such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, LibreOffice Impress, Prezi, ClearSlide, Powtoon, GoAnimate, Snagit, Camtasia, CamStudio, SlideShare, and Reallusion.

Some software, like competitors PowToon and Vyond, produces slides with more animation. Others like CamStudio can be used to record the screen activity.{{Cite web|title = 27 Presentation Software & Powerpoint Alternatives For 2015|url = http://www.customshow.com/best-powerpoint-alternatives-presentation-programs/|website = www.customshow.com|access-date = 2015-10-29}}

The most popular pieces of slide producing software are Microsoft PowerPoint, Prezi, Apple Keynote, Google Slides and ClearSlide.{{Cite web|title=The best presentation software: top 5 PowerPoint alternatives|url=http://www.techradar.com/news/software/business-software/the-best-presentation-software-for-businesses-1256592/2|last=Robarts|first=Stu|website=TechRadar|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019050758/https://www.techradar.com/news/software/business-software/the-best-presentation-software-for-businesses-1256592|archive-date=2015-10-19|access-date=2015-10-29}}

  • PowerPoint is currently the most popular slides presentation program. LibreOffice Impress is a FOSS alternative.
  • Prezi was developed in 2009 by Peter Arvai, Peter Halácsy and Ádám Somlai-Fischer in Budapest and San Francisco. Today, Prezi has 40 million users internationally.{{Cite web|title = Prezi, la startup de Silicon Valley que no ha sido aplastada por los gigantes|url = http://www.cioal.com/2014/05/15/prezi-la-startup-de-silicon-valley-que-ha-sido-aplastada-por-los-gigantes/|website = CIOAL The Standard IT|access-date = 2015-11-01}}
  • Apple Keynote, updated for OS X El Capitan, works on Macs and some other Apple devices.{{Cite web|title = Keynote - Accessibility|url = http://accessibility.umn.edu/keynote.html|website = accessibility.umn.edu|access-date = 2015-11-01|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150909150228/http://accessibility.umn.edu/keynote.html|archive-date = 2015-09-09|url-status = dead}}
  • ClearSlide is commonly used in marketing and sales organizations for presentations to customers.{{Cite web|title = Presentation & Sales Management Software {{!}} ClearSlide|url = https://www.clearslide.com|website = ClearSlide|access-date = 2015-11-01}}
  • Google Slides was developed by Google at the same time as Google Docs and Sheets, in 2007. The tool allows live collaboration.{{Cite web|title = Overview of Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides - Docs editors Help|url = https://support.google.com/docs/answer/49008?hl=en|website = support.google.com|access-date = 2015-11-01}}

Templates

Typically in a set of slides (a "deck"), all the slides will have a similar layout template, controlling such factors as margins and headings.{{Cite web|title = Adobe FrameMaker 8|url = http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/help.html?content=Chap11-Pagelayout-Templates_50.html|website = help.adobe.com|access-date = 2015-11-02}}

[[Sharing]] websites

Some websites offer facilities to share slide presentations online.

SlideShare allows the user to share presentations publicly or privately. Slides can be uploaded in various ways, via email and through social media are the most common ways of sharing the slides.{{Cite web|title = SlideShare - Frequently Asked Questions|url = https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/53685/~/slideshare---frequently-asked-questions|website = help.linkedin.com|access-date = 2015-11-02}}

AuthorSTREAM only allows the user to upload PowerPoint presentation slides. On this website users can give feedback by rating presentations and posting comments.{{Cite web|title = Frequently Asked Questions on authorSTREAM|url = http://www.authorstream.com/Faq#01|website = www.authorstream.com|access-date = 2015-11-02}}

SlideBoom turns slide presentations into Adobe Flash so they can be viewed without slide presentation software.{{Cite web|title = FAQ - SlideBoom|url = https://www.slideboom.com/faq|website = www.slideboom.com|access-date = 2015-11-02}}{{Cite web|title = Slide Sharing Websites: Review {{!}} m62|url = http://www.m62.net/presentation-skills/presentation-technology/slide-sharing-websites-review/|website = www.m62.net|access-date = 2015-11-02}}

SlideOnline allows the user to upload PowerPoint presentations and share them as a web page in any device or to embed them in WordPress as part of the posts comments.{{Cite web|title = SlideOnline - Present More|url = http://slideonline.com/|access-date = 2016-03-01}}

Another way of sharing slides is by turning them into a video. PowerPoint allows users to export a presentation to video (.mp4 or .wmv).{{Cite web|title = Turn your presentation into a video|url = https://support.office.com/article/C140551F-CB37-4818-B5D4-3E30815C3E83|website = www.support.office.com|access-date = 2018-01-10}}

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