Today, we are announcing the availability of the PowerPoint 2010 Beta.  It is a public download that anyone can try for free. What can you do with PowerPoint 2010? Collaborate more effectively with Co-Authoring .. more »

Your task: create a presentation. There are lots of ways to approach this depending on what youre trying to convey to your audience, and there are many things to consider: the message, content, flow, slide design, aesthetics, and a variety of other factors involved in storytelling. Sometimes its helpful to start with a template. This way, you can .. more »

Now that youve learned about PowerPoint Web Apps designed for quickly reading presentations that have been published on the web -- wed like to introduce you to . Edit View is, unsurprisingly, the place where you go to make changes to your presentation on the web. To begin with, we designed this view to parallel our desktop apps Normal View. On the .. more »

Whats the next best thing to getting someone to critique your PowerPoint presentation for design and effectiveness for free? Well, watching someone else get that advice may come in as a fairly close second. This video will re-introduce you to Julie Terberg of A Picture + 1000 Words where we spotlighted the amazing and beautiful sample shape and .. more »

As Nick just posted on the Office Web Apps blog, we’re expanding access to the technical preview! For a limited time, you can sign-up for a Technical Preview account here: http://skydrive.live.com/acceptpreview.aspx/.documents?aobrp=browse. Note: if you’re already in the technical preview, or you’re not in the US or Japan, you’ll get an error.. more »

Thanks to advancements in application virtualization technology, youll have the option to run the full version of Microsoft Office 2010 without the need to wait for installation, even if you have previous versions of Microsoft Office already installed. Similar to streaming a video over the internet, we send you the data you need to start the .. more »

Hopefully by now youve heard about the new versions of your favorite Microsoft Office applications that are showing up on the web. A large part of the effort behind Office 2010 has been to bring Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint functionality to SharePoint and Windows Live, enabling a whole new range of distribution and interactivity. You may .. more »

In todays world, you often need to communicate with people in different locations who cant get together in the same room. When youre presenting, you want everyone to see your slide show at the same time -- whether theyre sitting next to you or joining on the phone from 10,000 miles away. PowerPoint 2010 makes it easy to present on the fly to .. more »

Last week, the online presentation hosting site SlideShare announced the winners of their annual “World’s Best Presentation Contest.” On their website, you’ll find thousands entries for your viewing pleasure. What a great place to search for design inspiration. In a report from BusinessWeek: SlideShare's contest winners prove that PowerPoi.. more »

You’re on the way out the door. You need to shut down your computer first, and there are 15 different applications open. You press the power button, and a couple of the open applications remind you that your work hasn’t been saved yet. You have the option to “Save” or “Don’t Save.” You are moving quickly, and in the heat of the moment you accidently.. more »

Microsoft PowerPoint now has its very own fan page on Facebook, which means you now have an easy way to get free tips about your favorite program, share ideas about the ways you use PowerPoint, and get answers to PowerPoint-related questions that you’ve always wanted to ask. The nice thing about joining the PowerPoint fan page is that it in.. more »

As noted in Brian’s post on the Windows Live blog: Today is a real milestone for people who use Microsoft Office or Windows Live. Starting today, a select group of SkyDrive customers will be invited to try out a technical preview of the online versions of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, also known as the Office Web Apps, integrated ri.. more »

Have you ever tried to paste some Excel data into PowerPoint presentation? If you just press the paste button or Ctrl+V, PowerPoint will apply theme formatting to the table. Sometimes, however, you just want the table to look the same as it did in the spreadsheet. Maybe you just want to paste the table as an image. As described on the Office .. more »

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 .. more »

Over the years, PowerPoint has gone through a number of graphic improvements. Our goal is always to provide the best environment for you to visualize and communicate your ideas. At the beginning of this release, we looked at how advancements in motion graphics have transformed visual storytelling in broadcast TV and movies. We knew we wanted to .. more »

When you open presentations downloaded from the Internet in PowerPoint 2010, you’ll enter into the new Protected View. While in this mode, PowerPoint runs in a “sandbox,” which means that you are now better isolated from any malicious code that could be contained within the file. In the past, you had to decide if you trusted the .. more »

Overview the most new and amendatory features, beyond questions, Microsoft did a lot of work in improving the video functions for PowerPoint 2010. To Flash, we cannot view even any changes happen. Does PowerPoint 2010 love video more than Flash? Let's view these video features... more »

Welcome to the 21st century.  Computers are omnipresent.  The extent of your audience is no longer constrained to a single conference room or the space just over your left shoulder.  Whether you are sharing the videos from your recent trip with your family hundreds of miles away or presenting a media-rich business plan to potential customers on the.. more »

This article is just talks about the various new features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, such as new slide transitions and creates a video and so on. Absolutely, you will find the upcoming release of Office 2010 is becoming more and more powerful... more »

One of our pillars for PowerPoint 2010 has been crafting a multimedia experience that allows users to effectively harness the storytelling power of audio and video content. With improvements in bandwidth, computing power, and media devices, we’re seeing media – particularly video – used in all walks of life to enrich .. more »