New Features

Compare PowerPoint 2007 to Earlier Versions

User Interface

The new Ribbon groups tools by task; the commands you use most frequently are close at hand.

• Tabs are designed to be task-oriented.
• Groups within each tab break a task into subtasks.
• Command buttons in each group carry out a command or display a menu of commands.

Smart Art

PowerPoint 2007 enables you to easily create relationship, workflow, or hierarchy diagrams using SmartArt.  You can even convert a bulleted list into a SmartArt diagram or modify and update existing diagrams.

Themes

Document Themes help you change the look and feel of your entire presentation with just one click. Changing the theme of your presentation not only changes the background color but the colors of diagrams, tables, charts, and fonts, and even the style of any bullet points within a presentation. By using a theme, you can be ensure that your entire presentation has a professional and consistent look and feel.

Effectively share presentations

Dramatically improves the way users share and reuse information.

Communicate with users across platforms and devices.

Help ensure broad communication with your PowerPoint presentations by converting your files to XML Paper Specification (XPS) and PDF for sharing with users on any software platform.

Reduce your document sizes and improve file recovery at the same time.

The new Microsoft Office PowerPoint XML Format offers a reduction in file size, while also offering an improvement in data recovery for damaged files.

Initiate a review or approval workflow right from within Office PowerPoint 2007.

With Office PowerPoint 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can send a presentation to your team for review or create a formal approval process and collect signatures on that presentation, making collaboration a smooth and easy process.