PowerPoint 2013 is an upgrade to the previous versions to provide you with the powerful tools for all your presentation needs. If you’re upgrading to PowerPoint 2013 from a previous version, you’re probably most interested finding the new features and how different are they from the previous versions you’ve already worked with. So we made a list of all the new important features and changes in PowerPoint 2013. The following is the list of all new features in PowerPoint:
- Windows 10 native: Like all Office 2013 programs, is a full-fledged Windows 10 application. When it is running on the Windows 10 operating system, incorporates the latest touch techniques designed for tablet and mobile devices.
- Start screen: PowerPoint now opens a variety of prebuild presentation templates to choose, and also the presentations you’ve recently worked on, along with the locations where existing presentations might be stored.
- Cloud access: When you connect Office or PowerPoint to a Microsoft account or Office 365 account, you have the option of saving presentations “in the cloud” to a SharePoint document library or Onedrive. After saving a presentation in a shared location, you and your team can work on one version of the presentation, using either the full desktop or Mac version of PowerPoint or in PowerPoint Web App.
- Location Bookmarked: When you close a presentation, PowerPoint marks the location where you’ve worked and saved the file. So the next time you open the presentation, a resume reading flag enables you to quickly jump back to that location in the presentation.
- Smart guides: This new feature keeps your elements in the presentation well tailored, as you can now arrange and align the objects in real time as you set them up.
- Charting: Now you can insert excel data without any hiccups and make the best charting ever.
- Enhanced comments The Comments button on the status bar and the Comments pane make it easier to enter and respond to comments.
- Enhanced Presenter View: The New tools in PowerPoint 2013 make Presenter View setup easier and give you more control during the presentation. For instance, the thumbnails view of all the slides give you an overview and helps you get back to your current location, and the new zoom functionality enables you to focus your discussion.
- Web-based presentation delivery: Now you can deliver your presentation via the web by just sending a link. After you send a link to the presentation, audience members who don’t have PowerPoint can follow along in their web browser as you move from slide to slide.
- The Backstage view: The one location for all your tools. To view backstage view by clicking the File tab, which now replaces the Microsoft Office Button at the left end of the ribbon.
- Customizable ribbon: Now you can customize your ribbon way easier and fill it with all the important tools you need to work on your presentation.
- A workplace for each opened presentation: Now you can work with multiple presentations at a time by switching between them and each presentation has its own window
- Reading view: This allows you to preview presentations and perform changes instantly
- Presentation videos: Do you want to make videos out of your presentations, now not a big deal just export the presentation as a video and you will get the .mp4 output video is acceptible universally.
- Collaboration: This is a game changer for PowerPoint, with SharePoint and onedrive now you can collaborate with your team to perform presentation or changes on the go.
- File Recovery: PowerPoint 2013 autosaves your current presentation for a period of time, In case of any incident where your system might fail and you forget to the save the file, PowerPoint will recover the presentation the next time you start the program.
- Storyboarding: With the storyboard enabled you can optimize your presentation with more cool options.