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Office PowerPoint 2003 is the presentation graphics application in Microsoft Office, which means it creates slides with bullet-points and nicely decorated backgrounds at the click of a wizard's button. One of the risks with PowerPoint is that all presentations look the same. There's no substitute for custom graphic design, if the skills are available, but
Office PowerPoint 2003 does provide a strong collection of professional design templates. You can combine these with one of eight pre-defined colour schemes to vary their appearance. There is also an entertaining set of transition animations to keep the audience awake.
Office PowerPoint 2003 makes it easy to add speaker's notes and to print handouts, with complete control over how many slides fit on a page. Multimedia features let you insert sounds, movie clips, or CD tracks during the presentation. It makes giving a polished presentation ridiculously easy, leaving you to focus on what really counts: the content.
Like the other Office applications, Office PowerPoint 2003 is a mature product and there is not a lot new in this version. One important feature is Tablet support. Tablet users can annotate slides as they talk, adding a touch of humanity and immediacy to the blandness of a computer presentation. You can also do this on ordinary PCs using the mouse, but using a pen is more natural. Microsoft has also improved the PowerPoint viewer, with better multimedia support. A new Package for CD bundles your slides with the viewer for easy distribution. Although Office PowerPoint 2003 now requires Windows 2000 or XP, the viewer still runs on Windows 98. Finally, Office PowerPoint 2003 supports Office 2003 Rights Management, which lets you restrict access to specified individuals and document workspaces for team sharing with Windows Server 2003. Overall this is a sophisticated and comprehensive package. --Tim Anderson
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 includes new tools to help you create present and collaborate on presentations that have more impact.
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