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PowerPoint on the Web: Editing
Now that you’ve learned about PowerPoint Web App’s Reading View – designed for quickly reading presentations that have been published on the web -- we’d like to introduce you to Edit View . Edit View is, unsurprisingly, the place where you go to make Read More...
PowerPoint 2010: Just One Click Away
Thanks to advancements in application virtualization technology, you’ll have the option to run the full version of Microsoft Office 2010 without the need to wait for installation, even if you have previous versions of Microsoft Office already installed. Read More...
PowerPoint on the Web: A New View of Your Presentation
Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the new versions of your favorite Microsoft Office applications that are showing up on the web.  A large part of the effort behind Office 2010 has been to bring Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint functionality Read More...
Introducing Broadcast Slide Show
In today’s world, you often need to communicate with people in different locations who can’t get together in the same room. When you’re presenting, you want everyone to see your slide show at the same time -- whether they’re sitting next to you or joining Read More...
The 2010 Save: Accident Prevention
You’re on the way out the door. You need to shut down your computer first, and there are 15 different applications open. You press the power button, and a couple of the open applications remind you that your work hasn’t been saved yet. You have the option Read More...
A New Way to Paste
Have you ever tried to paste some Excel data into PowerPoint presentation? If you just press the paste button or Ctrl+V, PowerPoint will apply theme formatting to the table. Sometimes, however, you just want the table to look the same as it did in the Read More...
The New World of Co-Authoring
Like Microsoft Word , PowerPoint has made a significant investment in document co-authoring for the Office 2010 release. What is co-authoring? This is the capability for multiple users to open the same presentation file and to simultaneously edit and Read More...
Animation Painter
Creating a good presentation usually involves a number of steps: organizing your thoughts, developing a story, adding the content to your slides, and then taking some time to adjust the design so that it is aesthetically pleasing and appropriate for the Read More...
A Brand New Slide Show...
Over the years, PowerPoint has gone through a number of graphic improvements. Our goal is always to provide the best environment for you to visualize and communicate your ideas. At the beginning of this release, we looked at how advancements in motion Read More...
Optimizing Your Media for the World
Welcome to the 21st century.  Computers are omnipresent.  The extent of your audience is no longer constrained to a single conference room or the space just over your left shoulder.  Whether you are sharing the videos from your recent trip Read More...
Trimming Away
It’s not always effective to show an entire video from start to finish. The interesting parts are usually sandwiched between lots of walking, talking, sleeping, or otherwise unrelated content. In PowerPoint 2010, you get to choose exactly what to share Read More...
The New PowerPoint Media Experience
One of our pillars for PowerPoint 2010 has been crafting a multimedia experience that allows users to effectively harness the storytelling power of audio and video content. With improvements in bandwidth, computing power, and media devices, we’re seeing Read More...
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