A less-than-experienced user may not want to have to open a heavy editor like Photoshop just to adjust the color of an image. A savvy user might ask, why would anybody want to recolor an image within PowerPoint? Why not just load up an image editor? While those are very good questions, you do have to remember the target market. This is a nice addition to accommodate the differences in monitors.Īnother new feature that PowerPoint for Mac 2011 incorporates is the ability to recolor pictures. Once you change the screen size option, the preview automatically adjusts to give you a preview of what it will look like. The ability to choose which slide size you want allows the user to tailor the presentation to the size of screen. The options within the slide size are ‘Standard (4:3)’, ‘Widescreen (16:9)’ and ‘Widescreen (16:10)’. You get a preview of the title slide, you can choose the color scheme, fonts, and even the slide size. Once you click on a theme you want to use, you are given a set of options on the right side. This makes it much easier to see if a color scheme is already set that will match the topic of your presentation. You can take any one of these templates and modify it to your liking however, you are given a choice.

When you first open PowerPoint, you are presented with 57 different choices for potential templates. PowerPoint for Mac 2011 changes all this. After a bit of searching, I did manage to find that you can add a theme by clicking on the ‘Slide Themes’ tab at the top, but it is not intuitive to find within the menus. Yes, I know you can change the color pattern for the presentation in the toolbox, and you can change the background color to one of 12 choices, but this is not how most people want to operate. What I mean by this is that the application opens to a blank presentation and finding where in the world to change the bland white to a theme is beyond me. And if you have a choice between PowerPoint versions, I would recommend PowerPoint for Mac 2011. However, for presentations it is much easier to use either Keynote or PowerPoint.

I tend to do things using the simplest mechanism I know, and most of the time that is creating a custom webpage to do things that I need to accomplish. I prefer to try to avoid it, even at work. On the Mac side, there are basically only two: PowerPoint and Keynote.Īs I stated in the other Office for Mac 2011 reviews, I am not the biggest Office user. As with Excel, the number of slideshow and presentation applications are few.

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