I use PowerPoint a lot and found 2007 to be a vast improvement over 2003, so let’s see what’s new in PowerPoint 2010.
In PowerPoint 2010, multimedia integration has been vastly improved upon. When importing photos or image files into your presentation, the effects features that were added in PowerPoint 2007 offer a range of thumbnail previews for the effects. If you mouse over a thumbnail, the image in the presentation updates dynamically to show exactly how the image will look if you apply the effect you’re considering.
There are also many new slide transitions available that you can insert between slides, including a 3D pan and fade and a really neat ripple effect, just to name a couple.
The animation painter allows you to easily apply animation effects from an existing object to another, making it very simple to reuse animations and keep things looking consistent.
You can also embed and edit video files directly in PowerPoint, making it easy to trim content and add video triggers that let you overlay text captions and call-outs. The familiar style effects that you can apply to other art objects can also be applied to videos too.
As with the other applications in Office 2010, the Backstage view has been redesigned, giving you more options when you’re ready to save your file. From here you can compress media files, add rights-management, and explore new ways to publish your presentations.
The Broadcast Slide Show feature, in conjunction with SharePoint, allows you to publish your presentations and then email a link so that others can easily view your presentation through a web browser – end-users do not even need to have PowerPoint installed.
Posted Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 2:09 pm by aaronc
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