Last week we announced the release of the new Office Web Apps. Today, we’re excited to talk a bit more in depth about the new things available in PowerPoint Web App. We’ve packed a ton of new features into this release all oriented around helping you be more productive. We wanted to make it super-easy to build great presentations quickly and effortlessly on the Web and with the new PowerPoint Web App you can.

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One of the best ways to build a professional-looking presentation is to use a consistent color scheme. Making sure various elements on your slide are the same color ties them together and creates visual unity for your content. With the new PowerPoint 2013, we’ve introduced a handy feature called the Eyedropper that makes matching color a cinch. Plus, not only can you match colors within your presentation but between formats, such as a website and your slides.

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PowerPoint is a versatile communication tool, and millions of people use it every day in very creative ways. As engineers, we like to understand how customers use our product and how we can make it better. That’s why we flew down to Arizona this week to attend the 10 th annual Presentation Summit in Scottsdale. Experts from around the world gather every year to share techniques for creating effective presentations, and the attendees come away with a completely new perspective on how to approach...

Sometimes a picture fits awkwardly on a slide, creating a lot of background. What can you do? Here's an artistic solution using PowerPoint's picture formatting tools, including Artistic Effects, Corrections and Cropping.

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You want to meet in real time to create or refine a PowerPoint presentation, but often the people with whom you need to meet cannot be at the same place at the same time. With the growing usage of messaging and audio/video conferencing software, people are collaborating from multiple locations. Whether you’re a student who needs to finish a class project with your peers, a small business owner who wants to share a presentation with clients, or a family member sharing vacation photos in a slide...

In this week's webinar, we'll show you some of the new features coming to PowerPoint 2013. You can try them out right now during our free Customer Preview.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

• New design elements in PowerPoint 2013
• A better experience with Presenter's...

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You wouldn’t wear your workout clothes to a job interview, unless of course you were applying as a personal trainer or professional athlete. When you make PowerPoint slides, you are probably trying to sell a product, make a point, or pass a class. It’s not so different from a job interview - you want to look your best. Well guess what? We want to help you look your best.

When you open the new PowerPoint, you’ll see a start page with your recently opened presentations next to a gallery of new themes. In the Customer Preview, we’ve included eight newly designed themes, and the release version will have many more.

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Incorporating  a well-constructed chart within your PowerPoint presentation can be a powerful tool to help deliver your message. In this post, guest blogger Ellen Finkelstein provides useful tips on how to turn data from Excel into an easy-to-understand, professional looking chart in PowerPoint

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Two and a half years have passed since we released the 2010 version of PowerPoint. Since then, we’ve listened to your comments and feedback and narrowed down a set of scenarios that are most important to you, and we’ve evolved and developed new features that are designed to save you time and improve your authoring and presentation experiences. We can’t wait to tell you about what we did, how we did it, and why we think will make your life better. We know that when you sit down to...

In this week's webinar, you'll learn about nifty ways to organize and design your next PowerPoint presentation.

What you will learn in this webinar:

• How to start PowerPoint quickly
• Organizing slides at...

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