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1. What’s New inPowerPoint 2011

2. The New Ribbon Organized by Tabs Specialized Tabs appear depending on the object selected (for example while a picture is selected, the Format Picture tab is shown) You can now personalize your ribbon
3. The New Template The PowerPoint Presentation Gallery displays templates in a large format that lets you see layouts, graphics, and fonts at a glance. And you’re not limited to the colors and fonts of the built-in designs. The color and font menus in the Presentation Gallery provide an array of choices so that you can customize and create a document that reflects your style.
4. Sophisticated Slide Layout Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011 makes complex slide layout a breeze. You can place a text box, shape, or picture anywhere on the page intuitively and easily. Want that text in front of the picture instead of behind it? The new Reorder Objects tool allows you to move and reshuffle the order of objects on your slide simply by dragging the layers.
5. Create a multimedia experience The Media Browser provides handy, instant access to your photos, music, and movies, as well as images such as shapes, clip art, and symbols. The Media Browser integrates with your Mac. It displays photos from your iPhoto or Photo Booth libraries, music from your iTunes playlists, and movies from iMovie, Photo Booth, and iTunes.
6. Transitions and Animations PowerPoint for Mac 2011 offers new, dramatic, silky smooth transitions that will keep your audience riveted on you and your presentation from slide to slide Use animations to jazz up entrances and exits of text and images on your slides.
7. Retouch Your Photos You can edit photos directly in PowerPoint 2011. Click any picture in your presentation to open the Format Picture tab on the ribbon, where you’ll find robust photo editing tools. Enhance and customize graphics by adjusting exposure or by adding color. Apply special artistic filters, crop to remove unwanted artifacts, or remove a background by using the powerful new background removal tool.
8. Organize Slides You can group slides that share related content into sections. After you’ve inserted sections, you can move whole groups of slides by dragging the section. Sections also create an easy way to assign different parts of a presentation to different team members.
9. Perfect Your Presentation Presenter view helps make presenting easier by providing great tools all together in one place. The notes pane displays your slide notes clearly and helps you to deliver a smooth narration while presenting slides. The clock helps you to begin and end on time, while the timer shows you the duration of the presentation. And the progress bar keeps you oriented so that you always know right where you are in your presentation.
10. Training Resources Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac website - http://www.microsoft.com/mac/how-to SHSU’s Newton Gresham Library’s Safari Techbooks Online books - http://library.shsu.edu/research/databases/databasesbysubject/computerscience.html IT@Sam Service Desk – helpdesk@shsu.edu IT@Sam Instructor led Training (available throughout the fall 2011 semester) – tas017@shsu.edu