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• You too can create a presidential presentation

  1 Feb 2011

  Last week, President Obama delivered the annual State of the Union speech . It was widely discussed in the US media and Steve Ballmer also referred to it in a subsequent Microsoft Employee Town Hall. What made the speech so good? Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint , has done a short analysis...
• The PowerPoint product engineering team joins the Office Blog

  10 Jan 2011

  I'm excited to announce that the PowerPoint product engineering team has officially joined the Office Blog. These are the folks who literally build PowerPoint, and they're intimately familiar with its full breadth of possibilities. Which we know will provide great reading for you. The team had a blog...
• Co-authoring in Office 2010: Advice from an MVP

  5 Jan 2011

  Co-authoring - the ability to work on a shared document, stored on a server, at the same time as other people work on it - is a new feature of both PowerPoint 2010 and Word 2010. You and your colleagues can work on the same document without intruding on one another’s work or locking each other...
• Behind the Scenes: Accessibility in PowerPoint 2010

  25 Jan 2010

  As one of the newest program managers on the PowerPoint team (and a recovering history major), I’m always fascinated to hear the stories behind features I now can’t imagine living without. And as one of the engineers responsible for Accessibility in PowerPoint, I care a tremendous amount about the accessibility...
• PowerPoint 2010 Beta: Behind The Scenes

  14 Dec 2009

  It’s exciting times for us here on the PowerPoint Engineering Team! Whiteboard brainstorms that began three years ago are now real live features, which are fully functional and ready for a test drive in the PowerPoint 2010 Beta !  As we pass this milestone, I thought it’d be fun to share the inside...