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One of the major new features of PowerPoint 2013 is extended support for touch screen devices. This video discusses the use of touch in relation to PowerPoint 2013. One of the differences in using PowerPoint on a touch screen is that the indicators you see on the screen and the information about making a selection is quite different than what you get when using keyboard and mouse. Find out some of the gestures you'll surely find useful when using PowerPoint 2013 on a touch screen. Watch this tutorial to get you started!

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Hello again and welcome back to our course on PowerPoint 2013. In this section, we’re going to take a look at touch in relation to PowerPoint 2013 and largely speaking that means looking at touch in relation to Office 2013 at this stage. I mentioned earlier that one of the major new features of Office 2013 is extended support for touch screen devices. So the use of touch is a very important aspect of this new version of PowerPoint. I also mentioned earlier that by default on this course I’m going to be using mouse and keyboard, but whenever something new or different occurs that affects the use of PowerPoint 2013 using touch, I will go through that and also from time to time I will use touch as an alternative means of interacting with PowerPoint to perform specific tasks.

Now if you’re planning to use touch, there are some very useful articles on Microsoft.com both in terms of how to use touch with Windows in general and specifically about the use of touch in Office 2013. There’s also some information in the Office 2013 Help, but more of that in a little while. This particular article that I’m looking at here which is actually about the use of touch in Windows is a particularly good one because it talks about a keen user and their experience of using touch to perform particular tasks and the sort of things that work and the sort of things that maybe don’t work so well. So some of those sources you should find very useful.

Now in many cases the way that you would use touch instead of a keyboard and mouse to perform a task in PowerPoint 2013 is a pretty straightforward swap where I say click, then with a touch screen device you would tap. And that’s a pretty good basis on which to work. However, there are quite a few situations in which click and tap although nominally performing the same function will actually achieve different results and very often the way that PowerPoint reacts to tap instead of click is either subtly different or in some cases is quite different. So things like the indicators that you see on the screen, the information say about making a selection is different on a touch screen device to the information that you get when you’re using keyboard and mouse. So even if on the face of it what you’re doing with a touch screen device is the same as what you’re doing with a keyboard and mouse what you see in the process may be quite different.


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