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.