Microsoft Office 2010: PowerPoint

The most popular product in the Office suite has been PowerPoint. With PowerPoint 2010, the number of new features has grown significantly. Some of the more popular ones include:

• Advanced Image Editing
• Embedded Video
• Video/Audio editing and formatting
• Multi-window support
• 64 bit edition
• Broadcast Slide Show

With advanced image editing, users can import images into PowerPoint decks and do a number of new tasks, including removing the background from images, and cropping photos in any number of new shapes.

With embedded video and the new editing features, users in PowerPoint can insert a video into a deck, and then edit the video, followed by compressing it to save space. These new features are built into PowerPoint, so there’s no need to have another staff member utilize a video software application before one inserts it into a presentation. Users can trim, fade in and out, and even loop certain sections.

As more and more people discover the productivity increases with multiple monitors, adding in support to PowerPoint became key. In addition, as users begin to scale the 4gb memory plateau, many organizations are moving to purchase 64-bit workstations, which PowerPoint 2010 natively supports. These two additional features will certainly make your power users happy, especially if they’ve noticed performance issues with editing PowerPoint documents in the past.

But the best has been saved for last. The single greatest feature is the ability to, within PowerPoint 2010, broadcast a slideshow from your desktop to users on the Internet. There’s no third party application required and the service is absolutely free. This single change could be a huge money-saver for many small businesses that currently depend upon a 3rd party service. At New Signature we’re already utilizing this functionality to assist during our training sessions. Give us a call to see if we can implement this for you!