Top 10 New PowerPoint 2010 Features Useful For Consultants

Chillibreeze Writer - Saudha Kasim

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PowerPoint 2010 comes with many features that will enable users to create presentations that are slicker and professional.

Here are some of the new features in PowerPoint 2010 as listed by 24point0.

1. Converting slide shows into Videos

PowerPoint 2010 has powerful video editing and converting capabilities. Presentations can now be converted into video and saved as WMV files. You can add some extra visual effects by using readymade PowerPoint tools and products from www.24point0.com.

2. Crop Tools has Improved Capabilities

In PowerPoint 2010, the Crop tool has been vastly improved by allowing the user to see the whole image even as you are cropping. This helps in faster and more accurate cropping.

3. Animation Painter Makes Animation Easier

In PowerPoint 2010, the animation painter tool provides for replication of animation effects across multiple objects in the presentation through just one click.

4. PowerPoint 2010 Connects Remote Audience with Broadcast Slide Show

The Broadcast Slide Show feature in PowerPoint 2010, provides for PPT presentations to remote audiences. With this feature, the remote audience would also be viewing the same slides at the same time that the presenter does.

5. PowerPoint 2010 Enables Slicker Animation and Transitions

PowerPoint 2010 has added more features in the animations section. This provides for slicker looking animation effects with greater accuracy.

6. Organizing Slideshows Gets Easier with PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint 2010 provides a Sections function which enables users to easily divide and structure their presentations into different section. So separate sections can be given different functional and display properties through PowerPoint.

7. PowerPoint 2010 Makes Screen Capture Easy

The Screenshot tool in PowerPoint 2000 provides for easy screen capture. Any image on the screen can be captured easily and converted into the desired format.

8. New Picture Editing Tool

With the Background Removal Tool users can cut out the parts of the image they need.

Photographs, especially evocative ones, can make seemingly dry business presentations memorable. However, if you are communicating a difficult idea and want to involve the audience more, why not use 24point0’s easily editable Cartoon panel? It is sure to become a talking point and the audience will definitely appreciate the wit and imagination of the image.

PowerPoint 2010 Improves Video Editing Functionalities

PowerPoint 2010 incorporates a number of video editing tools that are sure to become a favorite with consultants. Previously, users would have had to use external video editing software to edit video clips. With the Trim Video function in PowerPoint 2010, this is a thing of the past. To trim the embedded video file, simply select the video, right click and choose Trim Video in the menu. You can then edit the video according to your requirements using the timelines in the dialog box.

You can correct the brightness and contrast of videos using the Video Tools>Corrections>Brightness and Contrast function.

PowerPoint 2010 now gives you the option to dress up embedded videos with Video Effects, Video Shape and Video Border tools in the Video Tools tab.

Video Tools tab

Compare Between Newer and Older Versions of PPTs in PowerPoint 2010

When a whole team is working on a presentation together, it gets quite difficult to track the edits that have been made in multiple iterations of the same file. Now, the Compare feature which was an essential function in Word, has been incorporated in PowerPoint 2010. So if you need to compare multiple versions of the same presentation, just go to Review>Compare and just like Word documents, you’ll be able to see the edits that have been done to PPTs.

to compare multiple versions of the same presentation

Organizations often have archives of presentations created over time that are store in variety of file types and PowerPoint versions. Converting these can take time and effort. 24point0 offers a Conversion Service that helps you bring your presentations up to date and can convert files to different formats to suit various functions.

PowerPoint 2010’s great new features are sure to make the life of consultants much easier. A number of long standing issues such as presenting to remote audiences and making better animations and transitions have been ironed out. Video editing tools have become more powerful as well, thus ensuring that presentation standards have gone up. No longer will audiences have to sit through dull, two dimensional presentations - PowerPoint sessions from now on will be visually stimulating and memorable multimedia experiences.

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Top 10 New PowerPoint 2010 Features Useful For Consultants

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