Overview

With Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 you get everything you need to organize, design, and deliver powerful presentations. PowerPoint 2002 incorporates the productivity and collaboration innovations of Office XP, such as Task Panes and Send for Review, giving you unprecedented access to the tools you need to make your point.

Benefits

• PowerPoint version 2002 empowers users to discover and use more of the existing functionality in the application. When thus empowered, users gain the confidence to try new things and ultimately create more effective presentations. This goal is achieved via new tools such as Task Panes and Smart Tags, which are shared throughout the Office suite, help users take advantage of the functionality of the application. In addition, PowerPoint version 2002 features improved technology for working with diagrams, drawings, pictures, text, and printing.
• PowerPoint version 2002 allows users spend their time working on their presentations rather than worrying about their software. For example, in the past, if an error were to occur, it was likely that the user would have had to spend a significant amount of time recreating their work. With the new reliability features in PowerPoint, users can continue to work even in the unlikely event of an error. Furthermore, a variety of security enhancements have been included in PowerPoint to help users feel more secure when working with their presentation.
• PowerPoint version 2002 makes it simple for users to share and collaborate on presentations with others via the Web. As a result, users will be able to work more effectively on presentations with their team members, regardless of where they are located. PowerPoint now includes a whole new way of reviewing presentations with others that takes away the difficulties associated with integrating multiple, disparate presentations. It also includes the ability for users to use the Web to broadcast live or recorded presentations around the world.
• PowerPoint version 2002 provides multinational organizations and multilingual users with a better experience when working the application. This includes a variety of improvements such as improved administration of languages, additional language proofing tool support, and a variety of user-interface improvements.

Features

What's New

Slide Design (Task Pane)
The Slide Design Task Pane gives users an easier way to discover their design options. These options include design templates, color schemes, and animation schemes -- all easily previewed at the time a selection is made.

Animation Schemes (Task Pane)
As part of the Task Pane, Animation Schemes give users one-click access to professionally designed animations. Users can easily get a preview of each animation scheme and can cycle through various options until they find the animation they want.

Custom Animation (Task Pane)
PowerPoint now adds high-quality custom animations that help make presentations come alive. Examples of these animation effects include moving multiple objects simultaneously, "path" animation (moving objects along a predescribed path), and easy sequencing for all effects on the slide, including exits.

Animation performance is also improved and takes advantage of hardware acceleration if available (such as hardware bitmap rotation and transparency blending in many 3-D video cards).

Multiple Masters
PowerPoint users can easily create more than one slide, title master, or slide master within one file. This makes it possible for users to combine multiple presentations in one file or create separate sections within the same presentation.

Presenter Tools
Users presenting their PowerPoint slides will always be prepared, thanks to the new Presenter Tools. Presenters have their own view, not visible to the audience. This view includes details on what bullet or slide is coming next, enables a presenter to see their speaker notes, and lets them jump directly to any slide.

Apply Automatic Layout (Smart Tag)
Apply Automatic Layout automatically snaps content into placeholders when inserted or pasted into an already existing slide. For example, when a user is working on a slide with the bulleted list layout applied and they insert a table, PowerPoint automatically changes the layout to the Text and Object layout so that the table and text are side by side. Furthermore, a Smart Tag icon is displayed to enable the user to undo the automatic layout or access more AutoCorrect options.

Print Preview
Print Preview enables users to get a preview of how their presentations will look when printed. Users have the option to switch between various views such as notes, slides, and handouts, or even switch between landscape and portrait view.

Thumbnails in Normal View
From within the Normal View (also known as the Tri-Pane View), users can switch between a presentation�s outline view and thumbnail views of the slides, just as they can in the PowerPoint Slide Sorter. This graphical representation makes it easy for users to navigate through their presentation.

Diagrams
Users can easily choose from a variety of built-in diagrams (including organization charts, pyramid, cycle, radial, and Venn diagrams) from within PowerPoint without needing to have an OLE server. Benefits of these native diagrams include the ability to execute in-place chart editing, smaller file sizes, and improved international text handling.

Compress Pictures
The Office XP Compress Pictures functionality enables users to compress images within their PowerPoint (or other Office application) files. Users can select the intended use of the file (Web, print, screen display, etc.) and designate whether one or all images in the file should be optimized. The image(s) are then shrunken and compressed in a manner that minimizes the size of the image without minimizing the visual quality of the image.

Image Rotation
Provides users with the ability to flip and rotate all images in documents.

Visible Grid
A new visible grid makes it easier to create a drawing within PowerPoint. Within the Grid and Guides dialog boxes, users can select from a variety of options such as snapping objects to the grid or other objects and displaying drawing guides on-screen.

Document Recovery
Users have the option of saving their current files at the time an error occurs. As a result, users spend less time recreating their presentations.

Application Error Reporting
PowerPoint now enables users to have the applications automatically report any errors that occur directly to Microsoft or their corporate IT departments. This gives Microsoft (or organizations) the data needed to further diagnose and correct these errors and to provide users with direct access to workarounds or other information on the error.

Application and Document Recovery
This provides a safer method for shutting down PowerPoint if it is not responding. Users can choose to shut it down while initiating recovery of the document. They can also report the problem to Microsoft or their corporate IT department at the same time.

Document Password Encryption
When users save their presentation, they are now offered the choice of using the standard CryptoAPI. CryptoAPI is a stronger encryption algorithm than previous versions. Default encryption remains the same (for backward compatibility) while the stronger encryption is offered as a choice. In addition, users can now set a password on the document that protects the user�s data while allowing others to still view the presentation.

Send for Review
The newest version PowerPoint understands each user�s specific role in the review cycle and gives each user the tools needed to successfully collaborate on presentation. When a presentation is sent for review (from the File > Send To menu), the correct reviewing tools are automatically turned on. Furthermore, when the presentation is sent back, users can merge the changes back into the original document.

Compare and Merge
PowerPoint now gives users the ability to merge together comments and revisions from multiple reviewers. The author (presentation owner) can then accept and reject one or all revisions.

Revisions Task Pane
The Revisions Task Pane enables users to easily identify the changes a reviewer has made to a presentation. Users can see a list of the changes made by a given reviewer or get a graphical representation of the changes via the gallery tab. A drop-down menu makes it simple to apply or unapply changes the reviewer has made.

Improved Features

AutoFit (Smart Tag)
PowerPoint now extends the AutoFit functionality so that as users type, the font is automatically resized to fit the slide. Unlike PowerPoint 2000, there is no minimum font size for AutoFit. Additional layouts in the user�s presentation (such as the two-column layout) also use the AutoFit feature. A Smart Tag icon makes it easy to undo auto fit, continue the text on a new slide, or change to a two-column layout.

Grouped Objects
Users can select specific AutoShapes, drawings, or pictures within a group and format them without needing to ungroup and regroup the objects.

Organization Chart Conversion
PowerPoint can convert existing organization charts to Office diagrams. This enables users to take advantage of the enhanced functionality and benefits of the native organization charting (highlighted above).

Multiple Picture Select
This feature provides the ability for users to easily include multiple graphics in one step (and even view thumbnails of those pictures), thereby speeding up the process.

Graphical Device Interface Integration (GDI)
Integration of Windows GDI+ enables users to see dramatic improvements in both the rendering and the printing of images in PowerPoint. Most notably, this technology provides antialiasing in both the edit and slideshow mode for PowerPoint and provides smooth edges and true semi-transparency. This gives a more professional look to graphics.

Markup
PowerPoint users now can more easily track the changes that are made to their presentations. The Markup feature allows users to track changes made to their presentations by using "call-outs" within the presentation. These call-outs detail the substance of the change without obscuring the presentation or affecting its layout. They also give the user a more visible and comprehensive view of the changes that have been made.

Reviewing Toolbar
The reviewing toolbar gives users a variety of views and options when reviewing documents. For example, users can filter the document to view changes by specific reviewers or by all reviewers. Users can also step through each change and accept or reject the changes individually, or they can accept or reject all of the changes at the same time.

PowerPoint Commenting
Comments in PowerPoint are incorporated into the Office review process. Comments take up little room on a slide and can easily be printed.

Presentation Broadcasting
Presentation Broadcasting, which gives users the power to deliver a presentation over the Web, has a number of improvements for both the presenter and the audience. The presenter can rerecord all or part of an archived broadcast, improve stability during real-time presenting, and add rich media (audio and video) into their broadcast. Improvements for the audience consist of easier navigation to an archived presentation and support for Netscape Navigator 4.

HTML Improvements
PowerPoint now provides users with a variety of improved functionality when working with presentations in the browser. Improvements include higher fidelity of all images as well as the ability to print multiple slides from the browser, save to FTP servers, play sounds, and animate charts.

Language User Interface Improvements
PowerPoint now gives administrators the tools they need to change the installed language settings and reset the document default properties that result.

Language Indicator in Status Bar
PowerPoint now displays the current language of text in the presentation, thus eliminating the need to switch back and forth between slides and the Language dialog box under the Tools menu.

Japanese Spelling Error Detection
As part of the improvements to the Office XP proofing tools, PowerPoint now recognizes Japanese language typographical errors.

Support for Additional Paper Sizes for Printing
PowerPoint now includes the most common paper sizes for international companies, specifically A3.

System Requirements

Computer/Processor
The recommended system is Windows 2000 Professional on a computer with a Pentium III processor and 128MB of RAM. Pentium 133 MHz or higher processor required.

Memory
RAM requirements for Microsoft PowerPoint depend upon the operating system used, plus an additional 8 MB of RAM for each Office application running simultaneously: for Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition, 24 MB of RAM for the operating system; for Windows Me, Windows NT Workstation or Server 4.0, 32 MB of RAM for the operating system; for Windows 2000 Professional, 64 MB of RAM for the operating system.

Hard Disk
Hard-disk space requirements will vary depending on configuration. 115 MB of available hard-disk space is required for the default configuration of Microsoft PowerPoint with 115 MB on the hard disk where the operating system is installed. Customers without Windows 2000, Windows Me or Office 2000 SR1 will require an extra 50 MB of hard-disk space for the System Files Update. Custom installation choices may require more or less hard-disk space.

Drive
CD-ROM Drive.

Display
Super VGA (800x600) or higher-resolution monitor with 256 colors.

Operating System
Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 or greater, or Windows 2000 or greater. On systems running Windows NT 4.0, the version of Internet Explorer must be upgraded to at least 4.01 with Service Pack 1.

Peripherals
Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device.

Miscellaneous

Multimedia: Multimedia computer required for sound and other multimedia effects. A hardware accelerated video card or MMX processor will provide improved graphical rendering performance. Pentium II 400MHz or higher processor, 128 or more MB of RAM, close-talk microphone and audio output device required for speech recognition.

E-mail & Internet: Microsoft Exchange, Internet SMTP/POP3, IMAP4, or MAPI-compliant messaging software for e-mail; Microsoft Exchange Server required for certain advanced collaboration functionality in Microsoft Outlook; some Internet functionality may require Internet access via a 14.4kbs or greater modem or a high speed connection, and payment of a separate fee to a service provider; local charges may apply.

Handwriting: Graphics tablet recommended for handwriting input features.