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In this video, we will look at some of the new features of PowerPoint 2013, including the interface that has been redesigned to accommodate those using devices with a touch screen, e.g., tablets and phones. Learn how to start a new PowerPoint 2013 presentation and control the PPT presentation in a number of ways. Take a look at your notes with the audience seeing only the slide through the improved Presenter View, run PPT presentations online, choose from among the new widescreen themes and theme variations, line up and space objects equally, learn new animation features, merge shapes to create a custom shape, and find out what multimedia formats PowerPoint 2013 supports. Learn all this and more!

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Hello and welcome back to our course on PowerPoint 2013. In this section, I want to run through the main new features in PowerPoint 2013. This is new in comparison with the previous version PowerPoint 2010. Now if you haven’t used PowerPoint before, you may think that looking at the new features won’t really help you very much or mean much to you, but I think it’s still worth going through this section because it will highlight some of the main points that I’m going to be looking at and also give you an idea of the structure of PowerPoint 2013, particularly because some of the changes in it have a very general kind of impact.

Now the first thing to point out is that within Microsoft.com in the Office part of the Microsoft website there is a page, What’s new in PowerPoint 2013, begins with a video covering the main new points and then there’s a list of each of the points, a brief description of what each of them is and does. So I suggest you take a look at that. There are also links from that page into a couple of other useful areas. One of them here, Make the switch to PowerPoint 2013, this is particularly for people who’ve been using earlier versions. And then for people who are beginners, there are basic tasks for creating a PowerPoint 2013 presentation. Now generally speaking, the materials that are available on the Microsoft site for learning PowerPoint are a little bit restricted compared to a fairly comprehensive course like the one I’m presenting here. But they certainly give a different view on each of the topics and it’s always good to look on the Microsoft website to see what training materials or help materials they’ve got with any topic that you’re trying to find out about in relation to PowerPoint.

One of the most significant features in PowerPoint 2013 is the significant feature in virtually all of Office 2013 and that is that the interface has been redesigned to accommodate the use of touch.

So there’s very much an emphasis on making it easy to use on tablets and to look at presentations on phones and so on. And as I mentioned earlier on I am at various points in the course going to look at how to achieve various things using a touch screen rather than a keyboard and mouse. I’m not going to keep referring to that in this What’s New section, but it is very significant and in many ways it’s a key driving force behind Office 2013 in general. So its importance is not to be underestimated.

So let’s look at some of the key new features other than the touch related ones and let’s start with more choices for getting started. If you’ve used PowerPoint before, you know that there are a number ways of starting a new presentation. You could begin with a blank one. You could start with a presentation you made before. You could use a template or maybe a presentation that you created before but haven’t used for some time. Now with PowerPoint 2013 all of these options are really presented to you on one screen to make it very easy for you to get started on a new presentation, whichever approach you’re going to take to creating that presentation.


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