PPT

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English

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Etymology

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(PowerPoint): Abbreviation of PowerPoint, originally used as its document filename extension.

Proper noun

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PPT

  1. PowerPoint (the slide presentation software developed by Microsoft)
    • 1997 September 30, Damian Hurley, “Has anyone played around with Clipart???”, in comp.os.ms-windows.misc[1] (Usenet), message-ID <01bccdb6$5c5ef440$543913ac@2IT766.charnwood.gb.astra.com>:
      Does anyone know how Powerpoint deals with .PCS files?
      POPULAR.PCS contains the default clipart supplied when you install PPT I presume.
    • 2002 October 25, m montanet, “Help! Can't install PPT 2002”, in microsoft.public.powerpoint[2] (Usenet), message-ID <2b5201c27c85$3a049a70$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10>:
      I purchased PowerPoint Version 2002 for XP separately, but can't install it. [] Can anyone provide info on: what a qualifying product is?, what the error is?, and what I need to do to install PPT?
    • 2008 April 13, Sue Morton, “Re: Vegas for PPT-like videos (was DAW and PowerPoint)”, in cakewalk.audio[3] (Usenet), message-ID <iFlMj.5688$GE1.2672@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com>:
      In my case I don't have words, just photos/graphics, and embedded short video clips, using the cheezy PPT effects :-)
  2. Abbreviation of People's Party of Timor.

Noun

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PPT (plural PPTs)

  1. PowerPoint (a slide presentation file created and opened with PowerPoint)
    • 2000 December 12, Greg Babb, “Memory problems when pasting links to PPTs into Word”, in microsoft.public.word.docmanagement[4] (Usenet), message-ID <Osz70OBZAHA.1808@tkmsftngp05>:
    • 2004 June 7, luke dorny, “Creating PDF collections from assorted large PPTs”, in adobe.acrobat.macintosh[5] (Usenet), message-ID <3bb47966.-1@webx.la2eafNXanI>:
      With the advent of Acrobat Reader 6, Adobe takes into account alot[sic] of new features that can be exported along with the PowerPoint files in the transition to PDF. [] Using Reader 6 allows the newer PPTs made by people using the latest PowerPoint software to export easily and include all the features included in said PPTs.
    • 2008 April 13, Sue Morton, “Re: Vegas for PPT-like videos (was DAW and PowerPoint)”, in cakewalk.audio[6] (Usenet), message-ID <iFlMj.5688$GE1.2672@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com>:
      The music for my PPT is played from an external source as well, it is not embedded in the PPT.
  2. (chemistry) Abbreviation of precipitate.

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Chinese

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Etymology

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From the file extension .ppt, from English PowerPoint.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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PPT

  1. PowerPoint
  2. (in general) electronic slide presentation

Spanish

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Proper noun

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PPT ?

  1. PPT (abbreviation of PowerPoint, the slide presentation software)
    • 2005 February 23, Jaime QX4TA, “Re: Instalar MCI codecs”, in microsoft.public.es.windowsxp[7] (Usenet), message-ID <919D14CE-9E63-46F0-B885-F524A0A5804C@microsoft.com>:
      El problema es que no logro insertar un película en powerpoint 2002 ( hasta hace un par de semanas todo estaba bien), se que PPT trabaja con el media player mplay32.exe y no el windows media player (con este las peliculas se ven perfecto), [] y como al no ver la película en MPEG con mplayer32.exe tampoco me funcionará con PPT.
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    • 2005 November 16, Juan, “Como subir una archivo PPT para que lo bajen los visitantes?”, in microsoft.public.es.frontpage[8] (Usenet), message-ID <4259EF6F-EDF8-4A8D-AF5F-3E43B1BCD32B@microsoft.com>:
    • 2008 August 20, Marcela, “Instalar Plantillas”, in microsoft.public.es.powerpoint[9] (Usenet), message-ID <26A69313-6BDB-44EB-BEEC-9A4E554BF767@microsoft.com>:
      uso el PowerPoint 2003. Y he bajado de Office Online una plantilla, pero no se como se hace para poder usarla, ya que la plantilla se abre como una nueva presentacion PPT pero cuando voy a mi trabajo de diapositivas y quiero aplicar esa plantilla que baje la misma no me aparece...sin duda que algo me sale mal...
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    • 2012 January 30, ehuggins, “Presentación PPT del grupo 9 de Gerencia de Sistemas”, in ing.sistemasn02[10] (Usenet), message-ID <AB7a9NAgbpBczHE5g-xE-4DMJO05ZamyOJc_yPkVK8hz5V=Yhw@mail.gmail.com>: