File extension.pptCategoryDescriptionOriginally 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.ActionsTechnical DetailsA 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 programsApple Keynote Microsoft PowerPoint OpenOfficeDeveloped byMicrosoftMIME typeapplication/mspowerpoint application/powerpoint application/vnd.ms-powerpoint application/x-mspowerpointUseful links.
File extension.odtCategoryDescriptionOpen Office of which ODT is part of was developed by Sun Microsystems around twenty years ago. The software is open source and is seen as a viable free alternative to Microsoft's Office suite of products. Open Office opens most Microsoft document formats and is is provided as a free download, without restrictions on license.
The writer application which produces ODT files is the word processing element of Open Office.ActionsTechnical DetailsThe Open Document Format is an open standard developed by Sun Microsystems under the guidance of OASIS (The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards). Originally the OpenDocument format was XML based and had at it's root, it now takes the form of a zip file much like Microsoft's DOCX format and takes advantage of the ZIP's compression technology to reduce the overall file size. Writer documents take the form of.odt and.fodt.Associated programsMicrosoft Office 2007 Microsoft Office 2010 OpenOffice WriterDeveloped bySun MicrosystemsMIME typeapplication/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.textUseful links.