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01. PowerPoint 2003 Viewer - View
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PowerPoint 2003 finally ships with an updated Viewer -
the last Viewer was released with PowerPoint 97.
The new Viewer supports all new animations and transitions
introduced with PowerPoint 2002 - however, it does not support
ActiveX.
The PowerPoint 2003 Viewer plays PowerPoint presentations
on Windows 2000, XP and 2003 with full fidelity - on Windows
98 SE and ME, the Viewer provides limited fidelity.
The new Viewer can be be downloaded
for free from the Microsoft site.
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02. Package to CD
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Package to CD creates a copy of your presentation on a folder
or CD that is completely self sufficient - it embeds fonts,
relocates linked files and also includes the Viewer. If there's
one new killer feature that symbolizes the changes in PowerPoint
2003, this is it!
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03. Faster and More Responsive - View
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PowerPoint 2003 is so much faster and responsive doing
everyday tasks like opening and editing presentations.
It uses Microsoft's problem reporting system to advantage
in fixing crashes and stability problems.
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04. Tablet PC Support - View
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PowerPoint 2003 improves the annotation tools for the Tablet
PC - users can now mark slides with 'ink' in Slide Show mode.
Tablet PC users can also create their own notes on slides
- these notes can be saved along with the presentation.
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05. New Pens - View
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In Slide Show mode, PowerPoint 2003 provides new pens -
ballpoint, felt tip and highlighter. In addition, you can
choose from 40 pen colors other than the eight colors of
the presentation color scheme - a total of 48 color options.
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06. Windows Media Player Integration
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PowerPoint can now use the Windows Media Player to play
media files rather than the aging MCI Control. WMP integration
provides PowerPoint with niceties like automatic media codec
download if a particular codec is not available on the delivery
machine
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07. Full Screen Movies - View
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The movies you insert into PowerPoint can now be played
full screen - after playing, the movie returns control to
the presentation slideshow mode.
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08. Media Playlist Support - View
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PowerPoint now can playback media from industry standard
playlist formats like ASX, WMX, M3U, WVX and WAX.
In PowerPoint (on the slide you want to begin playing the
sounds), choose Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File...
Navigate to folder contain the playlist (*.wpl, *.m3u or
another format) file (you will probably have to change the "files
of type" option to "All files (*.*)"
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09. Research Pane - View Slide
The Research pane in PowerPoint allows you to integrate
PowerPoint with existing and customized solutions that allow
you to access knowledge sources like the Factiva’s Publications
Library, Gale’s Company Profiles and Alacritude’s
eLibrary.
You can already access Office Online through the research
pane - other third-party solutions include legal and medical
knowledge bases. One popular extension of the research pane
involves integrating the Google site within Office applications
including PowerPoint.
Accessing the Research pane is as easy as Alt-clicking on
any relevant word.
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10. Thesaurus - View
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- The Office thesaurus finally makes it to PowerPoint using
the new Research task pane. Thesauri are available in several
languages.
In addition, you'll also find the Encarta dictionary and
encyclopaedia available within PowerPoint as well as an online
language translation service - all these options require
you to be connected online when being used.
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11. Integrated Help - View
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PowerPoint help is now integrated with online help - if
you cannot find something you are looking for or if the help
files have been updated, PowerPoint helpfully updates the
content. You can also access the Assistance, Training, Communities
and Downloads pages from the Help interface.
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12. Office Online - View
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PowerPoint now integrates with the Office Online website
so you can download new templates, get clipart and images
for your presentation, get PowerPoint add-on products through
the Office Marketplace and read columns and articles on using
PowerPoint effectively.
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13. Shift F5, Better Bitmap Export - View
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PowerPoint has now assigned Shift+F5 to the command that
begins a slide show at the current slide - an improvement
that many users have asked for since a long time.
Bitmaps in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 are larger
and have better resolution when exported.
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14. Smart Tags - View
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The popular Smart Tag support is now implemented in PowerPoint
2003.
Select AutoCorrect Options on the Tools menu, and then click
the Smart Tags tab - here you can choose to label text in
your presentation with smart tags. Dates, financial symbols,
and person names are included in the list of smart tag recognizers
that ship with PowerPoint 2003.
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15. Save presentations to SharePoint
workspaces - View
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You can save your PowerPoint 2003 presentations to SharePoint
workspaces where other team members and collaborators are
provided access to updated presentations. With shared workspaces
you can save task lists, related files, links, and lists
of members working on a project. Shared workspaces require
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 running Microsoft Windows SharePoint
Services.
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16. Reviewing and Sharing - View
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Using the Shared Attachment feature, you can attach your
presentation to an Outlook 2003 e-mail message, thereby creating
a Document Workspace. This allows your entire team to collaborate
and review the presentation conveniently though a task pane.
Document workspaces require Windows Server 2003 running
Windows SharePoint Services.
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17. Integrated IRM (Information Rights
Management) - View
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IRM management in PowerPoint allows you to create permissions
for various levels of file access to any PowerPoint presentation
you create, open or edit in PowerPoint 2003 - such files
can be only opened in PowerPoint 2003 even though the file
format is the same as earlier versions of PowerPoint since
only PowerPoint 2003 is IRM aware. To use IRM and set permissions,
you might be prompted to download Microsoft's IRM client
the first time you use this feature through the File | Permissions
option. Apart from setting permissions, PowerPoint also allows
a file to expire using IRM technology.
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18. Producer 2003 - View
Slide There's a new version of Microsoft Producer, the PowerPoint
to online rich media converter from Microsoft that's available
as a free download from Microsoft's site.
New features include an improved Synchronization Wizard.
Producer 2003 also supports Windows Media 9 to achieve superior
compression rates - according to Microsoft, you can see improvements
of up to 20 percent for audio compression and 50 percent
for video.
Producer 2003 also complies with existing e-Learning standards
like IMS and SCORM.
A variable speed playback feature ensures that you can speed
up or slow down presentations without changing the pitch
of the presenter's voice. This feature requires Windows Media
9 on Windows XP Professional.
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19. Features Removed - View
Slide The Meeting Minder and Send To Routing Recipient features
have been removed from PowerPoint.
The Broadcast feature is removed as well - Microsoft plans
to make it available as a separate add-in.
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20. End Note - View
Slide Here's a quote from Richard Bretschneider, lead program
manager for PowerPoint 2003.
On the more visible side, I'd reiterate that Package
for CD will change the way people distribute PowerPoint
presentations. Customers constantly related the fear that
their presentation was going to look different on the recipient's
machine, and that fear is justified because distributing
linked documents is always tricky. With Package for CD
handling the link fix-up, font embedding, and of course
our new and very high fidelity viewer we believe we've
given users new confidence in this area. I really think
it's a great feature, one every PowerPoint user can appreciate.
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