I'm a longtime Outlook user, and because the changes to Outlook 2007 are more incremental than revolutionary, it wasn't a huge shock to switch to it and continue my existing work. I doubt it's a mandatory upgrade -- for instance, the new search engine can be used with Outlook 2003, although it won't be integrated directly into it -- but it's a useful one.
--Sergar YegulalpPowerPoint is all about conveying a message visually, so it's no surprise that many of the graphic changes shared by Office applications are of particular interest to PowerPoint users.
For example, the new SmartArt feature helps you communicate by using dynamic graphics, from hierarchy diagrams to process charts. Best of all, you can turn a bullet list into a SmartArt illustration with just a couple of mouse clicks.
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Previous versions of PowerPoint supported Master Slides, which are the equivalent to styles in Word -- change a property in the Master Slide and all dependent slides are changed. In PowerPoint 2007, Master Slides are vastly enriched. Now there's a new hierarchy. The Master Slide consists of a variety of slide Master Layouts: a picture slide layout (for displaying an image), a chart slide layout (for charts and graphs), and more. You can add, remove, and position elements (such as text boxes) on each layout master, and as you'd expect, changes to the Master Slide ripple through all layouts. It's a much easier approach to applying (and customizing) slide templates than in any previous version of PowerPoint.
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Those changes, by the way, now include the ability to apply themes -- a collection of properties, from font and font size (one set for headings, one for the body of a slide) to background images and colors of graphic elements. When you add a slide, the theme is used in the thumbnail previews. Best of all, you can take a predefined theme and change it to suit your own taste (or create one from scratch), then save it and easily apply to it other slides or entire presentations from the Themes gallery.
Charts are no longer dependent on the adequate but aging Microsoft Graph applet included in previous versions -- you now have the power of Excel 2007 charting. In Office 2003, PowerPoint used MSGraph, a really crude charting tool. Now, when you tell PowerPoint you want to insert a chart, it opens Excel with a table filled in with dummy column headings, dummy row headings, and dummy data -- all giving you visual clues as to what you should fill in where.
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