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Power point is a Microsoft software presentation program that allows a user to create a slide show  of  important  notes  that  can  be  shown  and  moved  through  during  a  presentation.  Power  Point presentations consist of a number of individual pages or "slides". The "slide" analogy is a reference to the  slide  projector.  Power  Point  provides  numerous  features  that  offers  flexibility  and  the  ability  to create a professional presentation. One of the features provides the ability to create a presentation that includes music which plays throughout the entire presentation or sound effects for particular slides. In addition to the ability to add sound files, the presentation can be designed to run, like a movie, on its own. Power Point allows the user to record the slide show with narration and a laser pointer. The user may customize slide shows to show the slides in a different order than originally designed and to have slides appear multiple times.