More new features in PowerPoint

From microsoft PowerPoint 2002
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.