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Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

By Bill Detwiler May 23, 2006, 2:44 AM PDT on Twitter billdetwiler

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PowerPoint is the ubiquitous tool business people and students use to create multimedia presentations. The 2007 updates are supposed to make it less of a hassle to dress up slide shows. Most of PowerPoint’s features are available as icons in a tabbed ribbon atop the interface. And dynamic, visual galleries let you see a change before finalizing it.rn

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In trying out the beta, CNET Reviews found that the two-pane presentation of the PowerPoint file is similar to that of earlier editions of the application, but the ribbon menu along the top of the interface sets it apart from its predecessors.

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Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

The View tab offers a variety of ways to display a document. The ribbon within Office 2007 presents such options with icons that are larger than in Office 2003 and labels icons with text to help you figure out what they mean.

Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

The Insert SmartArt feature can turn a bulleted list into a variety of diagrams, such as hierarchical flow charts, matrixes and cycles.

Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

You’d think that SmartArt would convert a highlighted, bulleted text into a diagram. But no. Instead, you must first type your text within the SmartArt input window.

Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

If you change your mind about how you want SmartArt and other graphics to look, the Quick Styles galleries let you preview the changes.

Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

Selecting a slide headline and choosing a new font look from the WordArt Styles menu produced a surprise: PowerPoint didn’t apply the changes to our chosen text. Instead, it created a newly formatted version of the headline.

Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

Picture Tools options within the ribbon’s Format tab provide a slew of choices for framing and shaping graphics.

Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

Picture Styles galleries let you quickly change the border and position of an image.

Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

To animate your PowerPoint presentation, a gallery of fades, dissolves, and wipes lets you see how effects behave before you apply them.

Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

Microsoft emphasizes the integration provided between the programs in the Office 2007 system. But it was tough to figure out how to add an Excel chart to a slide in PowerPoint 2007 beta 2. When we chose Chart from the Insert tab, PowerPoint gave us options for creating a new chart.

Images: PowerPoint 2007 beta 2

Publishing a PDF version of the PowerPoint slide show took about half a minute. rnrn

Read CNET Reviews’ First Take and slide shows of the beta 2 versions of Microsoft Word 2007, Excel 2007 and Outlook 2007.

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