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Hi everyone! Here's my review of PowerPoint 2013. Now I've had PowerPoint 2013 for quite
some time now, and I'm finally ready to share some of my favorite design and animation features
with you. One of the first things that people notice about this version is that the slide
size is 16 by 9 or widescreen as a default. Now you can always change this by going to
"design" and then "slide size" up there, but the nice thing is that when you project in
presentation mode, you won't be getting those black bars on the side. So that's number 10.
PowerPoint 2013 gives you a lot more background theme options. So if you go again to the "design"
tab up there, you'll be able to see all the new themes. The really cool thing, however,
is that you can now play around with the colors of each theme as well, and you can also see
new fonts, effects, and background styles, so it's a lot more flexible and customizable.
In the new presenter mode, you can now see the slide that's coming up, as well as the
notes. Now I actually encourage you to know your slides well enough so that you don't
have to look at your notes, but if you do need to, then they're right here for you.
You now also have the option to zoom in on parts of the slide, and you also have a variety
of tools like the laser pointer, the highlighter, and the pen to use for marking up your presentation
as you're talking. Here I'm going to show you all the new animations.
There aren't too many new ones unfortunately, but there is one small trick that I'd like
to show you. There are basically just 4 new animations -- These aren't even all technically
new -- some are just being brought back from 2 versions ago. There are two entrance effects
and two corresponding exit effects. First we have the compress entrance, which
looks like that. Its exit effect is called stretchy. And finally we have the stretch
entrance and the collapse exit. These last two are the ones I want to use for the trick
I'll show you, which is a super simple flip effect. Just choose two objects of the same
size. Then add a collapse exit to the first, and add a stretch entrance to the second,
and make it start after previous in the animation timing. Then line up the objects so that one
is behind the other -- doesn't matter which is on top. And here's what you get -- extremely
simple but kind of cool! Wish they had more new animations to play with though, but oh
well I guess -- maybe in the next version. There are a few new audio and video features
that make life a whole lot easier. For example, there's a variety of newly supported audio
and video formats that can now be viewed in PowerPoint without having to download anything
else. The full list is scrolling across the screen right now.
You can now also export to MP4 video instead of just to Windows Media Video format, like
you could in the past. And music can now be played in the background much easier with
the "play in background" feature on the playback menu. And finally, what I really like is that
you can now drag and drop media files directly from folders into the presentation. So as
the world is kind of moving toward multimedia formats for presentations, it's getting easier
to do that in PowerPoint. While the merge, or "combine shapes", option
was available in 2010 through an add-on, it is now easily seen and accessible from the
ribbon. This set of features allow you to put multiple overlapping shapes together in
various ways -- here's what happens when you use each of these options with 2 circles,
for example. "Union" lumps them together into one. "Combine"
takes away the overlapping area. "Fragment" breaks them into 3 separate shapes. "Intersect"
keeps only the overlapping region. And "subtract" completely removes one of the shapes and any
overlapping areas. I'll demonstrate some ways to use these by
making a simple Mardi Gras mask. First, you insert two teardrop shapes. Then,
you extend the tips upward using the yellow dot. Next, put the two shapes together, select
both, and choose union to merge them into one. After that, create two ovals for the
eyes, and put those on top of each other as well. Now select both of them and choose "intersect"
to merge into the eye shape. Enlarge the eye and put it on top of the mask, then create
a copy to make the other side match. Then select all 3 pieces and choose "subtract"
to cut out the eyeholes. Resize the mask now, add a rectangular handle, and merge it with
the rest with the union option. Change the fill gradient so it looks a little better.
Now use one of the 3D preset formats to finish it off, and we are ready to try it on!
There are now expanded options for picture fills, which I really like. Here is a regular
picture of a cat, along with a rectangle, which we'll fill in with a picture of a cat
so we can get additional benefits as a picture. One new feature is that if you go to the "shape
fill" and "picture" option, you can now search directly on Bing for the picture fills, although
you're just limited to the Creative Commons pictures here. The other option that I really
like is that if you go to the "shape styles" menu, you can scroll down and paste your picture
directly from the clipboard, so you don't have to save anything to your computer first,
which eliminates a lot of clutter. Let me copy the cat to my clipboard so I can use
it as a picture fill in my rectangle. And then I click on the clipboard here to make
that work. Now the two pictures are exactly the same, but the one on the right has the
advantage in that I can now change the transparency level, and I can also tile, as I show you
in more detail in my Mosaic video. After tiling, I can create a mask and then create a cool
text effect. And I show you how to do masks in one of my other videos too. So two simple
but very convenient new features, especially that clipboard option.
You can preview your animations in a variety of ways. Let's take this slide from one of
my other videos as an example. This is what the full animation looks like. But if I want
to focus on just the rolling ball piece, I can select just these two animations, and
see what it looks like without having to play the rest of it. I can also see just the end
part of this by highlighting here and clicking "play from." The really cool new feature though
is the ability to preview your motion paths so that you can see where the animation will
end. Let me show you an example. Let's say I have a ball that I'd like to toss to my
other hand. When I create the motion path, I have to make sure that the ball will go
exactly where I want it to. So let's try this out -- perfect!
The eyedropper tool is an extremely useful new feature. It allows you to color in objects
with the same color as something that's already on the slide. So for example, if I have a
hat that I'd like to match the rest of my outfit, all I have to go to shape fill, select
the eyedropper, and select my jacket to take its color and match it to the hat. And there
you go -- a perfectly matching outfit, thanks for the eyedropper.
And we've finally arrived at my #1 feature, which is the new transitions. There are 11
new ones, and they've also brought back the random transition, so you could call it 12.
As I'm sure you've noticed, I've been using these throughout this video so you can see
what they look like. However, there is one transition in particular that I'd like to
show you in a slightly more interesting way, just to wrap up the video.
And that is a wrap! I hope you enjoyed, especially since I almost broke my camera equipment while
I was filming this. As you can probably tell, this was meant to be way more than just a
review of PowerPoint 2013. It was really meant to be a demonstration of all of the creative
things, or many of the creative things, that you can do while combining animation and video
together. Now this video was done entirely in PowerPoint 2013 with the video embedded
and a lot of the animations added on top of it. Very very carefully timed animations.
In fact, it took me months and months and months to come up with all of these ideas
and to make all of the animations just right so they would all work out. Tons of trial
and error, which is why I'm a year late in releasing this video, releasing it in 2014
instead of 2013. So hopefully it was all worth it and you learned something new, maybe about
PowerPoint 2013 or maybe a new way of doing animations, especially with video. So if you
liked the video, please comment, like and subscribe so I can make more videos, and if
you haven't checked out my other ones, please do so as well. So thank you so much for watching,
especially if you've stuck with me all the way to the end -- really really appreciate
it. And I'm going to leave you now with one final transition, which I actually don't recommend
using very often, especially for business or formal presentations. Thank you, and see
you soon!