Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 gives you more ways to create and share dynamic presentations with your audience than ever before. Exciting new audio and visual capabilities help you tell a crisp, cinematic story that’s as easy to create as it is powerful to watch. With new and improved tools for video and photo editing, dramatic new transitions, and realistic animation, you can add polish to presentations that will captivate your audience. In addition, PowerPoint 2010 enables you to work simultaneously with other people or post your presentation online and access it from virtually anywhere using the Web or your smartphone.

Bring more energy and visual impact to your presentations.
Save time and money by applying sophisticated photo effects without using additional photo-editing software programs. Transform your images into compelling, vibrant visuals by using new and improved picture editing features such as color saturation and temperature, brightness and contrast, and an advanced cropping tool, along with artistic filters such as blur, paintbrush, and watercolor.

Add a personalized video experience.
Embed and edit video files directly in PowerPoint 2010. Easily trim your video to show only relevant sections. Bookmark key points in a video for quick access or trigger animation to begin automatically when those bookmarks are reached. You can also set the video to fade in and out at specified intervals and apply a variety of video styles and effects—such as reflections, bevels, and 3-D rotation—to help you quickly capture your audience’s attention.

Captivate your audience with new transitions and improved animations.
PowerPoint 2010 offers new, dynamic slide transitions and animation effects that look similar to graphics you’d see on TV. Easily access, preview, apply, customize, and replace animations. You can also use the new Animation Painter to easily copy animations from one object to another.

Total Training PowerPoint 2010 will teach you how to fully utilize the extensive capabilities of PowerPoint, allowing you to captivate your audiences with amazing presentations. Almost all of us have seen a PowerPoint presentation in one format or another. It is pervasive from the classroom to the boardroom and even our living room. In this series you will discover not only legacy and new features offered in PowerPoint 2010 but also ensure you know how to include good design, utilize appropriate content and deliver polished, memorable presentations. This series will take you from start to finish covering presentation design, content creation, graphic and multimedia manipulation, animation and sharing, distribution and presentation options.