Robert Gaskins is a visionary entrepreneur. As early as the mid-1980s, he realized that the huge but undeveloped market of commercial slides had formed a perfect combination with the emerging graphic computer era. Many venture capitalists do not agree with this. They insist that DOS computers in text format will never disappear.

1984, Gaskins joined a declining Silicon Valley software company called Foresight and hired software developer Danny Southampton. Bob and Dennis perfected his dream and designed a "demonstrator" to carry out the plan. Dennis and Tom Luther King designed the original version of the program. Bob later suggested a new product name "PowerPoint", which eventually became the official product name.

Content application

A complete PPT file generally includes: title, animation, PPT cover, preface, table of contents, transition page, chart page, picture page, text page, back cover, ending animation, etc. The materials used are: words, pictures, charts, animations, sounds, movies, etc. Leading international PPT design companies are:

,, and so on. ; The application level of PPT in China has been gradually improved, and its application fields have become wider and wider. PPT is becoming an important part of people's work and life, and it plays an important role in work report, enterprise publicity, product promotion, wedding celebration, project bidding, management consultation, education and training.