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In-Depth Review
PowerPoint
Microsoft Corporation
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Redmond, WA 98052-6399
Telephone: (800)
MICROSOFT (642-7676)
Email:
Web:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/FX100487761033.aspx
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Product: PowerPoint
Current Version: 2007
Category: Field Sales Support - Personal
Selling
Sub-Category: Presentations
Client Platform: Microsoft Windows Vista
Office PowerPoint 2007 gives you a powerful solution for all your
presentation needs by making it easier to create impressive and dynamic
presentations quickly. As a result, you save time formatting and creating
content, so you can focus on the things that matter most.
Office PowerPoint 2007 offers many new and improved features. This document
provides an overview that highlights these exciting features. It also gives
you a close look at Office PowerPoint 2007 in action and provides guidance
on specific features that demonstrate its new capabilities.
Create Dynamic Presentations
Office PowerPoint 2007 makes it easier than ever to create dynamic and
professional-looking presentations. The Microsoft Office Fluent™ user
interface exposes features like never before, making tasks and options more
accessible. Plus, new features—like in-the-box workflow and hierarchy
graphics, PowerPoint Themes, custom layout support, and improved text
effects and shape manipulation—help you to create more effective
presentations.
- The Microsoft Office Fluent user interface makes it easier to create
professional-looking presentations and boosts productivity.
- Custom layouts help you quickly create the precise layout you
envision without being confined to one of the prepackaged standard
layouts.
- SmartArt™ graphics and other shape effects give you the ability to
add 3-D effects, glow, shadowing, and other powerful visuals to your
presentation elements.
- SmartArt diagram tools help you create professional diagrams and
flow models.
- Rich text and typography effects boost the impact of your design.
- PowerPoint Themes help you apply a consistent look to every graphic,
font, and table color in an Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation with a
single click.
- Office Styles help ensure a consistent appearance when you create
Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents, Microsoft Office Excel® 2007
spreadsheets, and Office PowerPoint 2007 presentations.
Easily Share Presentations
With the new Office PowerPoint 2007 features, you can easily share and
reuse information with coworkers and peers.
- PowerPoint Slide Libraries help you publish and share slides and
layouts while easily accessing content from other presentations.
- PowerPoint XML Formats are more compact, so you can share
presentations more effectively.
- Save as PDF or XPS functionality gives you the ability to share your
presentations with customers or clients on other platforms.*
- Initiate and simplify the review and approval workflow process
directly from Office PowerPoint 2007 by using Microsoft Office
SharePoint® Server 2007.
Manage Presentations Efficiently
Office PowerPoint 2007 can provide more effective ways to manage content.
As a result, it is now easier to help ensure consistency across your company
and comply with regulations.
- Managed document repositories can be accessed from within Office
PowerPoint 2007, so you have greater control over presentation versions.
- Digital signatures enable you to apply a digital signature to Office
PowerPoint 2007 presentations, so others can verify the content has not
changed since it was published.
- Document Inspector helps ensure private data stays that way by
helping you detect and remove unwanted comments, personal information,
and hidden text.
PowerPoint is included as a standard component of
the following Microsoft products: Office Standard 2007, Office Professional
Plus 2007, Office Enterprise 2007
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Rich's Recommended Web Sites
PowerPoint Heaven - The Power to Animate
PowerPoint Heaven is a website providing PowerPoint showcase, artworks,
PowerPoint games, animation templates, PowerPoint animations and tutorials
on animating Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Microsoft PowerPoint has
become a widely used software in presentations. Examples such as schools,
have adopted PowerPoint as the program for students to present their
projects and assignments to the class. PowerPoint is a wonderful software
for presenting your works, likewise, it can also be a disaster if you fail
to understand the purpose of the animations.
http://pptheaven.mvps.org/
See also: The Art of PowerPoint-ing Blog
http://msmvps.com/blogs/tohlz/
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