PPT2001: What's New in PowerPoint 2001? (274020)

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Making PowerPoint even easier to use

• Complete projects created quickly with the Project Gallery: The Project Gallery makes it easy to find the template or wizard that best matches your project. It appears each time you start PowerPoint and when you click Project Gallery on the File menu. You can use the Project Gallery to both create new Office documents or preview and open existing ones.
• Access your documents faster: With the improved Open and Save dialog boxes on the File menu, you can access your files faster in every Microsoft Office program. Click Shortcuts to quickly access the Desktop, network services, and your mounted volumes. Click Favorites to access, add to, or remove items from your Favorites folder. Then click Recent to access documents that you've recently worked with.
• Format presentations faster with the Formatting Palette: The Formatting Palette puts the right formatting options at your fingertips just when you need them. For example, if have you text selected, the Formatting Palette gives you a choice of the most common text formatting options. If you have a drawing object selected, the Formatting Palette changes to show you options for drawing objects. The Formatting Palette will save you the effort of hunting through menus and dialogs for a particular formatting option.
• Find and insert slides easily with the Slide Finder: The Slide Finder lets you browse through thumbnails of the slides in a presentation so you can quickly identify the slides you want to copy into a new presentation. You can also use the Slide Finder to apply a new slide master or title master to your slides.
• Look up word definitions quickly: Use the built-in definition dictionary to quickly find word definitions or cut and paste them into your presentations.
• Personalize the appearance of PowerPoint to suit your needs: PowerPoint now sports a fresh new look that is pleasing to the eye while making it easier to find the tools you need. Also, if you choose a different appearance for your menus and windows in the Appearance control panel (Apple menu), PowerPoint changes its appearance to match.
• Use the Euro currency symbol: PowerPoint provides full support for displaying, entering, and printing euro currency values.

Creating presentations

• Multiple slide masters: Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 now supports the use of more than one slide master and title master in a presentation. You can apply slide masters and title masters to single slides or multiple slides at a time, and if you need to copy slides from one presentation to another, you can set PowerPoint to copy the slide and title masters along with the slides.
• Improved Assistant: The Office Assistant window can now be resized and docked next to the toolbars above the presentation window. It uses less space on your screen, while still providing great help when you need it. If you don't like the Assistant, you can turn it off permanently and use the Help index or table of contents.
• Tips and advice: The Assistant helps you to create better presentations by providing tips and advice based on the task at hand. When you start certain tasks, a light bulb will appear on the screen. Click the light bulb to see the tip.
• AutoFit text: If you have a few extra lines of text that do not fit in a text placeholder, PowerPoint automatically resizes the text to fit.
• New normal view: The new normal view simultaneously displays the slide, outline, and notes views in their own adjustable panes, so you can see everything at once.
• Grayscale output: You can now view and print slides in true grayscale or pure black and white.
• Native table tools: New native table tools let you create and format tables within PowerPoint. Use the Draw Table tool much the same way you use a pen to draw a table - just click and drag to draw the table boundaries and cell partitions. You can now make individual cells any height and width you want.
• Graphical bullets: New graphical bullets add extra flair to your slides. They can be used to replace the standard font-based bullets. A large selection of bullets is included, and you can import your own custom-made bullets as well.
• Numbered lists: Numbered lists are now supported in PowerPoint. When you change the order of items in a numbered list, PowerPoint automatically renumbers the list for you.
• Flag for Follow Up: You can flag presentations for follow up at a later date and time, and Microsoft Entourage will alert you.
• New design and content templates: A wide variety of new templates are available for you to apply to your presentations.

Adding drawings and graphics

• New Clip Gallery: With the new Clip Gallery in Microsoft PowerPoint 2001, you can organize pictures into custom categories, assign keywords to pictures, drag images into your presentation, and leave the Clip Gallery open in a smaller window while you're working on your presentations. The new Clip Gallery can also store sounds and movies. If you use a picture, sound, or movie often, you can add it to the Clip Gallery for easy access.
• Graphics and objects in Web pages: PowerPoint 2001 makes using graphics on Web pages easy. Graphics for Web pages are automatically stored in GIF, JPEG, or PNG format.
• Enhanced graphics export: For users of low-end film recorders and high-end output devices, PowerPoint 2001 offers greater control over the size, resolution, and compression settings for exported slide images.
• Scanner and digital camera support: You can scan a picture directly into PowerPoint 2001 from most TWAIN-compatible scanners and digital cameras.
• Animated GIF pictures: PowerPoint 2001 supports the playing of animated GIF pictures to add motion to your presentations.

Delivering presentations

• PowerPoint Movies: The new PowerPoint Movie format allows you to save a presentation as a QuickTime movie and present it using any QuickTime-compatible movie player. You can control PowerPoint Movies just as you do with normal presentations, clicking to advance to the next slide or clicking hyperlinks and action buttons. You can also have PowerPoint save the individual text, graphics, and objects on your slides with that PowerPoint Movie so you can open the movie file in Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 later for editing.
• Save as Web Page: You can share your presentations with anyone on the Web by saving them as Web pages and publishing them to the Internet or your organization's intranet. The outline pane automatically converts to a table of contents to help you navigate through a Web presentation.
• Enhanced graphics export: For users of low-end film recorders and high-end output devices, PowerPoint offers greater control over the size, resolution, and compression settings for exported slide images.
• Exit animations: PowerPoint supports exit animations so you can transition between slides with even more flair. New animation options allow clear control over entry and exit animation effects, sound, order, and timing.
• QuickTime transitions: With full support for Apple QuickTime, PowerPoint can use QuickTime transitions to move between slides in a presentation.
• Slide Navigator: During a slide show, you can easily find specific slides in your presentation by dragging the horizontal scroll bar and viewing the thumbnails.

Creating Presentations for the Web

• Improved browser compatibility: You can publish your Web presentations to take advantage of the more advanced Web browser features in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.0 or later, while preserving compatibility with Internet Explorer 3.0 and Netscape Navigator 3.0 and later.
• Navigation bar in Web presentations: The outline pane is automatically converted to a table of contents to navigate through a Web presentation.
• Customizable Web pages: Quickly change how PowerPoint generates and formats Web pages through the Web Options dialog box (Edit menu, Preferences command, General tab, Web Options button). For example, you can specify what format graphics are saved in for use on Web pages. Whenever possible, the options are shared across all Microsoft Office programs. Use design templates to create Web pages with a professional look. Without saving your file, you can quickly preview your Web page in your browser with the Web Page Preview command (File menu).
• Automatic file and link management: PowerPoint automatically manages companion files, such as graphics. When you create a Web page, all supporting files are stored in a file folder with the same name as the main .htm file. When you save your presentation to a new location, PowerPoint checks the links and repairs those that aren't working.
• International text encoding: If you create Web pages for international use, PowerPoint saves files by using the appropriate international text encoding so that users on any language system are able to view the correct characters.
• Graphics and objects: PowerPoint makes using graphics on Web pages easy. Graphics for Web pages are automatically stored in GIF, JPEG, or PNG format.

Using Microsoft PowerPoint worldwide

• Take advantage of Unicode support: Microsoft Office is based on the Unicode text encoding standard, which allows PowerPoint 2001 to display presentations correctly, no matter what language they are written in, provided the operating system supports the characters specific to that language.
• Use the Euro currency symbol: PowerPoint 2001 provides full support for displaying, entering, and printing Euro currency values.