The document summarizes new features in PowerPoint, including the ability to work with multiple presentations simultaneously, merge and compare presentations, edit presentations from a phone, trim audio clips, apply artistic effects to images, remove image backgrounds, copy and paste animation effects between objects, use the mouse as a laser pointer during presentations, and export presentations as videos.

1. What’s New to PowerPoint
Savannah Stevenson
Tim Mayes

2. New Editions
The ability to…
1. Work with separate PowerPoint presentation files in different windows
2. Merge and compare presentations
3. Edit and view from your phone
4. Trim an audio or video clip
5. Apply artistic textures and effects to your pictures
6. Remove the background and other unwanted portions of a picture
7. Copy and paste animated effects from one object to another
8. Make your presentations portable for sharing
9. Turn your mouse into a laser pointer
10. Turn your presentation into a video

3. Number 9…Laser Pointer
1) Go to the Slideshow tab and click on one of
the Start Slide Show icons.
2) Start the slideshow by selecting one of these
icons
3) Press and hold ctrl and click the left mouse
button.

4. To change the color of the laser
pointer…
1) Click Set Up Slideshow
in the Setup group on
the Slideshow tab
2) Select the color that
you want from the
Laser Pointer list in the
Set Up Show dialog
box, under Show
Options and click OK.

5. Number 5…Artistic Effects
1) Click the picture that
you want to apply an
artistic effect to.
2) Under Picture Tools, on
the Format tab, in the
Adjust group, click
Artistic Effects.
3) Click the artistic effect
that you want to apply

6. Number 6…Remove the Background
1. Click the picture that
you want to remove
the background from.
2. Under Picture
Tools, on the Format
tab, in the Adjust
group, click
Background Removal.

7. Number 4…Trim an Audio Clip
1) Select the audio clip, then The end of the clip, click the
press Play. end point and drag the arrow
2) Under Audio Tools, on the to the desired ending position
Playback tab, in the Editing for the audio clip.
group, click Trim Audio.
3) To trim…
The beginning of the clip, click
the start point and drag the
arrow to the desired starting
position for the audio clip.

8. Number 10…Turning Your Presentation
Into a Video
1. Create your
presentation in
PowerPoint and save
it.
2. Click Save and Send
on the File menu.
3. Under Save and Send,
click Create a Video.

9. Number 10…Turning Your Presentation
Into a Video

10. Number 1…Work With Separate
Presentations
You can run multiple presentations on a single
monitor, side-by-side. Your presentations are not
bound by a main or parent window any longer, so
you now have a great way to reference one
presentation while working on another.
Also, you can use the new Reading view to show
two presentations in a slide show in separately
managed windows simultaneously, with full
animation effects and full media support.

11. Number 2…Merge and Compare
1) In PowerPoint 2010, open the presentation
that is stored on the server.
2) On the View tab, in the Presentation Views
group, click Normal to view your
presentation in Normal view.

12. Number 2…Merge and Compare
3) In the left pane that
contains the Outline and
Slides tabs, on the Slides tab, a
small icon appears on the
lower-right corner of the slide
thumbnail that indicates that
a co-author is making changes
to that slide. Click the icon to
see the name of the co-author

13. Number 3…Edit from Phone
• If you have a windows phone you can
download the PowerPoint app and make
changes to your presentation.

14. Number 7…Copy and Paste
1) Select the object with want to copy the
the animations that you animations.
want to copy.
2) On the Animations tab,
in the Advanced
Animation group, click
Animation Painter.
3) On the slide, click the
object to which you

15. Resources
• What’s new to PowerPoint 2010?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/what-s-new-in-powerpoint-2010-
HA010336563.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/turn-your-mouse-into-a-laser-
pointer-HA101794344.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA010336563
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/apply-an-artistic-effect-to-a-
picture-HA010355163.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA010336563
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/remove-the-background-of-a-
picture-HA010355182.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA010336563
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/trim-an-audio-clip-
HA010382291.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA010336563
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/turn-your-presentation-into-a-
video-HA010336763.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA010336563