MICROSOFT POWER POINT 2010

DEFINITION:

Power point  is intended for users who are new to Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and interested in learning the concepts of creating and designing presentations by using PowerPoint 2010.

It is ideal for current or aspiring Sales or Pre-Sales executives, Business Analysts, Managers and other professionals that need to create, update, manage and modify effective presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

NEW FEATURES:

NEW EMBED VIDEO FROM FILES

To insert a video from your files, on the Insert tab, in the media group click video and then click video from tour file.

·         NEW AUDIO EDITING

Select an audio object in your presentation. The audio tools format and playback tabs appear automatically whenever an audio object is selected.

·         NEW MULTI- WINDOW SUPPORT (SDI)

This capability is available automatically for example with more than one presentation open, on the view  tab, in the window group, click arrange all.

·         NEW LINKED NOTES

Open or save a new power point 2010 presentation, Then, on the review tab in the one note group click linked notes.

·         NEW BROADCAST SLIDE SHOW

On the slide show tab in the start slide show group click broadcast slide show.

IMPROVED FEATURES:

·         IMPROVED STREAMLINED COMMUNICATIONS

Wherever you see presence information for other editors, point to the person’s name for a contact card from which you can initiate a conversation.

·         IMPROVED INKING

To start inking, just move your stylus in range of a tablet enable device (such as a tablet PC) or on the review tab, click start inking. The ink tools peers tab appear automatically.

·         IMPROVED RECORD SLIDE SHOW

On the slide show tab in the set up group just click record slide show.

·         IMPROVED NOTE PRINTING

Click the file tab to the open backstage view and then click print. Under settings click full page slides and then under print layout option click notes page.

·         IMPROVED ADDITIONAL SMART ART GRAPHICS

 On the insert tab in the illustration group click smart art the smart art tools design and format tabs appear automatically when your insertion point is in   

 COMPARISON

          recently upgraded office 2007 to office 2010 but have both on a new machine FAST (quad core i7 6 gig ram Gamer video cards ) all with the latest drives.  Especially in Slide sort mode PowerPoint 2010 is SUBSTANTIALLY slower (we have large presentation 400-500 slides) almost to the point of non usability. Even with 50 slide presentation the performance is noticeable. We have tried this upgrade on older machines (1-2 years) and the same thing.  These are new machines which otherwise are VERY fast. All MS updates, antivirus firewalls are up to date and functioning properly.  All run Win 7 (some 32 bit some 64) and all are running 32 bit Office (which is a requirement when running 32 bit Office 2007)

ISSUE:

     Some new power point features are only compatible with presentation that use the .pptx file name extention.

New features in Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011, such as embedded media and sections, can be saved only with the .pptx file name extension. If you try to save it in the earlier .ppt format after you add new PowerPoint features to your presentation, you will likely encounter errors.

Use the .pptx file extension to take advantage of new features in PowerPoint 2011 and cross-compatibility with other Office for Mac 2011 applications. You can also download and install the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0.2. or an update that enables PowerPoint 2004 to open files that have the .pptx file name extension.

 REFLECTION:

The following advantage of Power Point 2010

Can easily input images,Templates are built in for different appearances,Can add notes pages,Can easily add media and recordings,More exciting than a simple word document or hand written presentation,Master slides make presentations consistent

 

The following Dis advantage of Power Point 2010

 Some features such as animations and backgrounds can distract the audience from the actual information in the presentation,File size can become quite large on medium to large presentations ,Some of the features can be quite complicated to use and even the simple features require some getting used to,When at work, you cant rely on someone else's computer or laptop to run your presentation, there are too many software conflicts and disk space barriers,Takes quite a bit of time to create a complete presentation.