Navigation and display of task panes

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Navigation and display of task panes
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 includes several task panes that help you complete the following tasks: create a new presentation; select a layout for slides; choose a design template, color scheme, or animation scheme; create a custom animation; set slide transitions; search for files; and copy and paste multiple items at once.

General navigational tips

Switch between most recent task panes
In the upper-left corner of the pane, click the back and forward arrows to see most recently viewed panes.
Display the most recently opened task pane
On the View menu, click Task Pane. (Note: If this command has a check mark, clicking it will turn off a task pane that's displayed.)
Display task panes
In the upper-right corner of any task pane, click the down arrow, and then click the task pane you want.
Close the task pane
Click the Close box in the upper-right corner.
New Presentation task pane

Display it
On the File menu, click New.
Show or hide it when you open PowerPoint
At the bottom of the task pane, select or clear the Show at startup check box.
Clipboard task pane

Display it
On the Edit menu, click Office Clipboard.
Basic Search task pane

Display it
On the File menu, click Search.
Advanced Search task pane

Display it
On the File menu, click Search, and then in the Basic Search task pane, click Advanced Search.
Slide Layout task pane

Display it
On the Format menu, click Slide Layout.
Show or hide it when you insert a new slide
At the bottom of the task pane, select or clear the Show when inserting new slides check box.
Slide Design task pane

To display it
On the Formatting toolbar, click Design .
Or, on the Format menu, click Slide Design.
To see design templates
Click Design Templates at the top of the pane.
To see color schemes
Click Color Schemes at the top of the pane.
To see animation schemes
Click Animation Schemes at the top of the pane.
Custom Animation task pane

To display it
On the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation.
Or, on the slide, select the item you're adding custom animation to, right-click, and on the shortcut menu, click Custom Animation.
Slide Transition task pane

To display it
On the Slide Show menu, click Slide Transition.
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What's installed with PowerPoint 2002

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What's installed with PowerPoint 2002

This topic lists the features installed with Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 and tells where you can find them in the PowerPoint 2002 (or Microsoft Office XP) Setup program. For the most current information about the features and add-ins included in PowerPoint 2002, see the Readme.doc file in your C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10 folder.


Installed with the Typical install

The following is a list of features and their location in the Setup program.

Microsoft PowerPoint program files
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft PowerPoint Help
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
Typical Design templates
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows: Design Templates: Typical Design Templates
Typical Content templates
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows: Content Templates: Typical Content Templates
Text converters (four installed)
Office Shared Features: Converters and Filters. These converters include: Word 97-2000 & 6.0/95 RTF Converter; Word 6.0/95 Export Converter; Recover Text Converter; Word 97 for Windows/Word 98 Macintosh.
Graphics filters (nine installed)
Office Shared Features: Converters and Filters. These filters include: TIFF, EPS, BMP, EMF, WMF, PNG, PICT, GIF, JPEG formats.
Fonts
Office Shared Features
Additional TrueType Fonts
Office Shared Features: Fonts
Clip Organizer (formerly Clip Gallery)
Office Shared Features: Clip Organizer
Office Assistants (one installed)
Office Shared Features: Office Assistant
Office XP Web components
Office Shared Features
Office 2000 Web components
Office Shared Features
Spelling checker
Office Shared Features: Proofing Tools: English
Visual Basic for Applications
Office Shared Features
Microsoft Graph
Office Tools
Microsoft Graph Help
Office Tools: Microsoft Graph
Office Server Extensions Support; Web discussions and hosted Webs
Office Tools: Office Server Extensions Support
System Information
Office Tools
Features installed on first use by default

The following is a list of features that are installed on first use and their location in the Setup program.

Presentation broadcasting
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
Additional design templates
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows: Design Templates
Additional content templates
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows: Content Templates
Harvard Graphics 3.0 for DOS translator
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows: Presentation Translators
Lotus Freelance 1.0–2.1 for Windows translator
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows: Presentation Translators
Animation Sound Effects
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
Pack and Go Wizard
Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
Alternative User Input, Speech
Office Shared Features
Text converters (an additional 10)
Office Shared Features: Converters and Filters. These converters include: WordPerfect 6.x Converter; WordPerfect 5.x Converter; Text with Layout Converter; Microsoft Excel Converter; Word for Macintosh 4.0-5.1 Converter; Word for Windows 2.0 Converter; Works for Windows 4.0; Works for Windows 5.0; Word 6.0/95 for Windows/Macintosh; Lotus 1-2-3 Converter.
Graphics Filters (six additional)
Office Shared Features: Converters and Filters. These filters include: FPX, CGM, PCX, CDR, WPG, and PCD formats.
Office Assistants (six additional)
Office Shared Features: Office Assistant
International Support — Fonts
Office Shared Features: International Support. These fonts include: Japanese Font; Korean Font; Traditional Chinese Font; Simplified Chinese Font.
French Proofing Tools
Office Shared Features: Proofing Tools: French. These tools include: Spelling and Grammar checkers; Hyphenation; Thesaurus; English-French Translation.
Spanish Proofing Tools
Office Shared Features: Proofing Tools: Spanish. These tools include: Spelling and Grammar checkers; Hyphenation; Thesaurus; English-Spanish Translation.
Help for Visual Basic for Applications
Office Shared Features: Visual Basic for Applications
Equation Editor
Office Tools
Web scripting
Office tools: HTML Source Editing
Language Settings Tool
Office Tools
Microsoft Draw Converter
Office Tools
Microsoft Office Binder Support
Office Tools
Microsoft Office Document Imaging
Office Tools
Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar
Office Tools
Microsoft Query
Office Tools
Organization Chart Converter
Office Tools
Scanner and camera add-in
Office Tools
Not installed (use Custom installation)

The following is a list of features that are not installed by default and their location in the Setup program. You can use Custom installation to make them available in your program.
Handwriting
Office Shared Features: Alternative User Input
Digital Signature for VBA Projects
Office Shared Features
Armenian and Georgian Font
Office Shared Features: International Support
Universal font for viewing text in any language
Office Shared Features: International Support
Hindi Font
Office Shared Features: International Support
Syriac Font
Office Shared Features: International Support
Tamil Font
Office Shared Features: International Support
Note Despite not being part of the core installation, the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer is available for download when you package a presentation using the Pack and Go Wizard. It can also be downloaded directly from the Microsoft Office Web site.
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New Microsoft Office features

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New Microsoft Office features
Everyday tasks

Office task panes The most common tasks in Microsoft Office are now organized in panes that display in place with your Office document. Continue working while you search for a file using the Search task pane, pick from a gallery of items to paste in the Office Clipboard task pane, and quickly create new documents or open files using the task pane that appears when you start an Office program. Other task panes vary per Office program.

New look Microsoft Office XP has a cleaner, simpler look to its interface. Softer colors also contribute to this updated feel.

More convenient access to Help Get the full power of the Answer Wizard in an unobtrusive package. When you enter a question about an Office program in the Ask a Question box on the menu bar, you can see a list of choices and read a Help topic whether you are running the Office Assistant or not.

Control paste options and automatic changes with smart tags New in-place buttons called "smart tags" let you immediately adjust how information is pasted or how automatic changes occur in your Office programs. For example, when you paste text from Microsoft Word into Microsoft PowerPoint, a button appears next to the text. Click the button to see a list of choices for fine-tuning the formatting of the pasted text. Smart tags and their associated choices vary per Office program.

Updated Clip Organizer Hundreds of new clips, an easy task pane interface, as well as the same abilities to organize clips and find new digital art on the Web are part of the updated Clip Organizer (formerly Clip Gallery).

Conceptual diagrams Word, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint include a new gallery of conceptual diagrams. Choose from diagrams such as Pyramid for showing the building blocks of a relationship, Radial for showing items in relation to a core element, and more.

Voice commands and dictation In addition to mouse and keyboard methods, you can now select menu, toolbar, and dialog box items by speaking. You can also dictate text. This feature is available in the Simplified Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office, and has some special hardware requirements.

Support for handwriting You can use handwriting recognition to enter text into an Office document. You can write by using a handwriting input device — such as a graphics tablet or a tablet-PC — or you can write using your mouse. Your natural handwriting is converted to typed characters. In Word and Microsoft Outlook, you can also choose to leave text in handwritten form.

Improved fidelity of pictures and drawings In Office XP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft FrontPage, and Microsoft Publisher are using an improved graphics system (GDI+). With this new graphics system, shapes and WordArt have smoother outlines and adjustable levels of transparency with true blending. Digital pictures stay sharper and clearer when you resize them.

Accessibility Office XP programs support Microsoft Active Accessibility 2.0. This technology makes accessibility aids, such as screen readers or screen enlargers, more effective.

Find printers If your organization uses Microsoft Windows 2000 and the Active Directory directory service, you can search for printers across your network from the Print dialog box in Office XP programs.

Storing documents with Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 You can store Microsoft Office documents on Exchange Server 2000 and access them through the File Open, File New, and File Save dialog boxes, as you would any other Office document.

Web documents and Web sites

Target your Web publishing efforts Save your Microsoft Office documents as Web pages for versions 3.0-6.0 of various Web browsers and give your readers the best possible viewing experience.

Share your Office documents over the Web From any Office program, you can save documents to Web sites on MSN. This gives you an instant collaboration space where you can share files with other people.

Save a Web site as a single file A special Web archive file format is available in Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Publisher, and Microsoft Word. This file format lets you save all the elements of a Web site, including text and graphics, into a single file.

Open Office Web pages for editing from the browser Office programs recognize the HTML pages that they generate. You can open an Office document that you've saved as a Web page in the program it was created in, right from Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Error prevention and recovery

Document recovery and safer shutdown Documents you are working on can be recovered if the program encounters an error or stops responding. The documents are displayed in the Document Recovery task pane the next time you open the program.

Office Safe Mode Microsoft Office XP programs can detect and isolate startup problems. You can bypass the problem, run your Office program in safe mode, and keep getting your work done.

Office crash reporting tool Diagnostic information about program crashes can be collected and sent to your company's information technology department or to Microsoft, allowing engineers to correct these problems so they don't interrupt you again.

Security

Digital signatures You can apply a digital signature to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files to confirm that the file has not been altered.

Increased protection against macro viruses Network administrators can remove Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, the programming language of Microsoft Office, when deploying Office. This can decrease the possibility of viruses spreading via Office documents.

Language-specific features

If you are not using the specific language version of Microsoft Office for which one of these features is designed, then the feature is only available if you have installed the Microsoft Office XP Multilingual User Interface Pack or Microsoft Office Proofing Tools for that language. In addition, you must enable support for the language through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

Improvements to changing the language of the user interface and Help More components across Microsoft Office support changing the language of their user interface. In addition, terms on the interface match the terms in Help, even when the main text of Help is in a different language than the interface. This feature is only available with the Office XP MUI Pack and a volume licensing agreement.

Hangul/Hanja converter improvements Over 20,000 new characters are supported by this converter for Korean language documents. The converter automatically uses new fonts that have the proper glyphs for the new characters.

Full support for Windows 2000 language features Microsoft Office programs now support all the languages that Microsoft Windows 2000 does. Office also supports the latest extensions to Chinese character encoding via Unicode, including support for almost 70,000 Chinese characters.

East Asian character support on non-East Asian systems Now you can enter characters from East Asian languages in all Office programs, even if your system software is a non-East Asian language version. (This was previously only supported in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook, or on Windows 2000.) For example, on a computer running English (U.S.) Microsoft Windows 98, you can enter Japanese characters in Microsoft Excel.
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More new features in PowerPoint

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Everyday tasks

Task panes for applying slide and presentation formatting The Slide Layout and Slide Design task panes organize layouts, design templates, and color schemes in a visual gallery that displays next to your slides. When you choose an item from the task pane, your slides are updated immediately with the new look.

Print preview Just as you are used to doing in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, you can now preview your presentation before you print. Special settings in print preview let you preview and print slides, notes pages, and a variety of handout layouts.

Multiple design templates per presentation PowerPoint 2002 supports having more than one design template in your presentation. This is great when you want to combine several presentations into one file, but have each section maintain its distinct look.

Visible grid To make aligning placeholders, shapes, and pictures easier, you can display the drawing grid in PowerPoint and adjust the spacing of its gridlines.

Thumbnails of slides in normal view When you want to navigate your presentation visually, click the Slides tab in normal view. Use the thumbnail representations of each slide to quickly find the slide you want to work on, or drag a thumbnail to move a slide to a new position in your presentation.

Presenter's view for slide shows If you're working with a computer that supports multiple monitors, you can use this feature during a slide show to view speaker notes, but keep them hidden from your audience, jump to specific slides out of sequence, keep track of time, and more.

Text AutoFit improvements You can now turn text AutoFit on or off per placeholder, giving you a finer degree of control. Text AutoFit also works on more types of placeholders.

Automatic layout for inserted objects As you work, PowerPoint adjusts the slide layout automatically to accommodate pictures, diagrams, charts, and other items that you add. When you choose a new slide layout, PowerPoint can automatically rearrange the existing items on the slide to fit the new layout.

Save background or selection as picture When you create a drawing using the drawing tools in PowerPoint, you can save it as a picture by right-clicking it. You can also save a texture or picture background from a slide in the same way, making it easy to reuse these graphic elements.

Easier selection of an object in a group This new feature lets you select a single AutoShape in a group, without ungrouping. This is useful when you want to make certain types of formatting changes, for example, changing the color of a single shape in a group.

Insert multiple pictures When you insert pictures from files on your hard disk drive, you can select multiple pictures and insert them all at once.

Picture compression Pick the resolution you want for the pictures in a presentation, based on where they'll be viewed (for example, on the Web or printed) and set other options to get the best balance between picture quality and file size.

Picture rotation You can now rotate and flip any type of image file in a PowerPoint presentation — including bitmaps.

Photo album This feature makes it easy and fast to get photos from your hard disk drive, scanner, or digital camera into a presentation. Special layout options for photo albums include oval frames, captions under each picture, and more.

Web documents and Web sites

Play sounds and animations Sounds play and most of the new animation effects are preserved when you save your presentation as a Web page (HTML format).

Presentation broadcasting

More editing control You can now re-record your presentation broadcast before you publish it.

Support for audio and video Sounds and videos that you include in a presentation broadcast are heard and seen by your audience, both in real-time or when archived.

Better browsing of archived broadcasts Improved navigation controls make it easier to rewind and fast forward through an archived presentation broadcast.

Security

Password protection A top feature request, and now it's here. Just like in Word, you can set a presentation to open with a password, specifying read-only or read-write access to the file.

Language-specific features

If you are not using the specific language version of Microsoft Office for which one of these features is designed, then the feature is only available if you have installed the Microsoft Office XP Multilingual User Interface Pack or Microsoft Office Proofing Tools for that language. In addition, you must enable support for the language through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

Language indicator in status bar Quickly note the language of the text at the insertion point by looking at the indicator in the status bar, just like in Word.

Improved insertion of characters via the Insert Symbol dialog box All the characters of a font are organized into categories. It's easy to pick the font you want, then the category — for example, Katakana or Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms — and get to the character you need.

Detection of Japanese typographical errors Wrong keystrokes and leftover characters from Input Method Editor (IME) conversions in Japanese are marked with the familiar red squiggly lines, and suggested corrections help your editing go faster.

More underlining styles in Input Method Editor (IME) You have more choices for the color and style of text and underlining for character strings that you enter through the IME.

Embed a subset of the characters in a font File sizes stay smaller when you embed fonts thanks to a new option that lets you include only the characters that are used in the presentation (not the entire font). This option is available with certain fonts with large character sets, such as Japanese and Unicode fonts.

Support for additional paper sizes PowerPoint supports the most common sizes of paper used around the world, including A3, B4, B5, and US Ledger (11 x 17), so that your printed slides look right.

Automatic keyboard switching Most useful for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, this feature automatically senses the language of the text in a text selection and changes the keyboard layout accordingly.

More language-specific fonts Languages that use complex scripts, such as Hindi, are now supported through options in the Format Font dialog box.

Proofing tools improvements The Language dialog box (Tools command, Language menu) now shows you which language dictionaries have been installed, as well as the ones you have most recently used.

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Key new features in Microsoft PowerPoint

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Key new features in Microsoft PowerPoint
Collaborative online reviews

Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Outlook work together to help you e-mail a presentation to colleagues and start the process of reviewing. When the reviewers send the presentation back to you, PowerPoint can help you merge their comments and changes into a single presentation for your review. Rest the mouse pointer over a change marker to see the details of a change and to accept or reject it. You can also review changes in the new Revisions task pane. This task pane gives you a unified, gallery view of every change and the ability to accept and reject them all at once or individually.

Comments also work with the new reviewing feature. They're color-coded by reviewer, intelligently positioned so as not to obscure important slide elements, and are easy to print.

Animation effects and animation schemes



PowerPoint has new animation effects, including entry and exit animations, more timing control, and motion paths — pre-drawn paths that items in an animation sequence can follow — so you can synchronize multiple text and object animations.

Animation schemes let you apply a pre-designed set of animation and transition effects to your entire presentation at once. The Animation Schemes task pane lets you choose the animation scheme that's right for your audience and material — a subtle scheme like Elegant, or something more exciting, like Pinwheel. And, of course, you can still apply animation effects on a slide-by-slide basis.

Better organization charts and new diagram types



Organization charts now use the drawing tools in PowerPoint, resulting in smaller files sizes and easier editing. Also, PowerPoint includes a new gallery of common conceptual diagrams. You can customize these pre-drawn diagrams with text, animation effects, and a variety of formatting styles. Choose from diagrams such as Pyramid for showing the building blocks of a relationship, Radial for showing items in relation to a core element, and more.

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