In this week’s webinar, we'll show you some nuggets for making better PowerPoint presentations. You can join Office webinars at 9:15 am Pacific on Tuesdays. Go to http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information.

What you will learn at Tuesday’s webinar:

• How PowerPoint is like your resume
• Using the Notes section In PowerPoint
• Using Presenter’s View in...

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Watch this Office 15-Minute Webinar to learn about using photos in PowerPoint and Word. Many of the same tools also work in Excel and Outlook. After you watched the webinar, you can learn more about the topics covered by clicking the links below. Learn about other Office Webinars and how you can join them live at http://aka.ms/offweb.

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Part of our work in PowerPoint 2010 makes the process of adding and editing images easier. Many of your pictures come from your camera or the internet. Another common source is your computer screen. Taking a screenshot and pasting it into the application can be tedious, because in most cases you really only want to show a portion of the screen. For Office 2010, we decided do something about it. Introducing the Insert Screenshot tool. With just a couple clicks, you can insert a picture of any window...

A Tale of Two Guides There are two types of guides in PowerPoint: Smart Guides and Static Guides , and both of them have been improved in the new version of PowerPoint. Smart Guides: Now Even Smarter In case you don’t know what Smart Guides are, they're the dashed lines that appear to help you with alignment as you move shapes around the slide. Here's an example of what they look like in PowerPoint 2010: Not only do they look better in the new version of PowerPoint, they help you in more ways...

Like Microsoft Word , PowerPoint has made a significant investment in document co-authoring for the Office 2010 release. What is co-authoring? This is the capability for multiple users to open the same presentation file and to simultaneously edit and save changes to that file. Co-authoring solves a lot of problems with the current models of collaboration, where multiple versions of files are stored at multiple locations, not to mention the proliferation of presentations circulating via e-mail amongst...

Every holiday season we roll out a new animated holiday e-card created by Microsoft MVP Sandra Johnson. The card is just one example of how she uses PowerPoint and her design skills to dazzle others.

Read more to learn how Sandra made this card, and for steps on how to make this card your own and share it with your friends.

 

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Widescreen (16:9) is the new default aspect ratio in the new PowerPoint. To make your experience with the new dimensions pleasant, we’ve built a brand new set of themes specifically targeting this aspect ratio, and we’ve improved our conversion code so that you can easily make the switch to widescreen from other aspect ratios.

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PowerPoint 2010's audio and video features are increasingly used in presentations, making it difficult for people with hearing disabilities to fully comprehend them. Today, we're pleased to announce the release of STAMP, a new add-in which lets PowerPoint 2010 users quickly and easily add closed captions to video and audio files, making PowerPoint presentations richer, more understandable experiences for people with hearing disabilities.

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It's a pleasure to announce the official release of a great tool for working with PowerPoint files, Microsoft Producer. Microsoft Producer allows you to take an existing presentation file, capture and synchronize video and audio narration, add additional media content, and produce a unified set of content ready for viewing in a browser on your corporate intranet or a generally accessible web server. A powerful tool for e-learning, corporate communications, sales... many corporations and schools have...

It's unavoidable. When people find out we work on PowerPoint, we get questions. Sometimes they're new, but many are repeaters. We take all questions seriously, especially the repeaters, as those sponsor changes we need to make to the product. Our goal is to eliminate the necessity of the question in the first place by better design. To be clear, many of the questions we get are answered in the PowerPoint help, or in online support. But again, the fact that people don't find these answers means we...