This page contains information on the PPT file extension (Microsoft PowerPoint), a popular document file format
PPT (Document)
| File extension | .ppt |
| Category | Document File |
| Description | Originally developed by Forethought, who Microsoft bought out, PPT is the worlds most popular presentation file format. It is a very powerful tool that you can use to create presentations that include pictures, graphs, text and many other objects. Many businesses and students that have to present something will almost always do their presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint. |
| Actions | PPT Converter View other document file formats |
| Technical Details | A large part of any presentation is how the text enters, appears and exits the screen. Entrance, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide itself are controlled by what PowerPoint calls Custom Animations Transitions. These can be animated in a variety of ways. For example you can customise the animation to create small story boards by animating pictures to enter, exit or move. With different type of callouts, speech bubbles with edited text can be sent on and off to create speech. The overall design of a presentation can dictate how all the other slides appear and operate, this is called a master slide. Everything from design to the text on the slide can be edited using a primitive outliner. |
| Associated programs | Apple Keynote Microsoft PowerPoint OpenOffice |
| Developed by | Microsoft |
| MIME type | application/mspowerpoint application/powerpoint application/vnd.ms-powerpoint application/x-mspowerpoint |
| Useful links | More detail on Microsoft Powerpoint 10 Great Powerpoint Tips Microsoft Office binary file format specifications PPT Converter |
Convert PPT file
Using Zamzar it is possible to convert PPT files to a variety of other formats
- ppt to bmp (Windows bitmap)
- ppt to doc (Microsoft Word Document)
- ppt to docx (Microsoft Word 2007 Document)
- ppt to gif (Compuserve graphics interchange)
- ppt to html (Hypertext Markup Language)
- ppt to html4 (Hypertext Markup Language)
- ppt to html5 (Hypertext Markup Language)
- ppt to jpg (JPEG compliant image)
- ppt to key (Apple iWork Keynote Presentation)
- ppt to key09 (Apple iWork '09 Keynote Document)
- ppt to odp (OpenDocument presentation)
- ppt to odt (OpenDocument text)
- ppt to pcx (Paintbrush Bitmap Image)
- ppt to pdf (Portable Document Format)
- ppt to ppt (1997-2003) (Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)
- ppt to pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Presentation)
- ppt to png (Portable Network Graphic)
- ppt to ps (PostScript)
- ppt to rtf (Rich Text Format)
- ppt to swf (Macromedia Flash Format File)
- ppt to tiff (Tagged image file format)
- ppt to txt (Text Document)
