Marketing description

Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 has a better look: It's cleaner and primed for use on tablets and phones, so you can swipe and tap your way through presentations. Presenter View automatically adapts to your projection set-up, and you can even use it on a single monitor. Themes now come with variations, which make it simpler to hone in on the look you want. And when you're working with others, you can add comments to ask questions and get feedback.

Key selling points

• Use wide-screen themes and variants, add videos, pictures, and shapes, and create customized icons using powerful tools
• An improved presenter view helps you to stay organized, focused on your presentation, and keep your audience engaged
• Improved collaboration tools make it easier to work with others on the same presentation at the same time on different PCs

Product features

• Start screen
  The start experience helps you jump-start the creative process with a collection of new themes.
• Theme variants
  Choose from alternative color schemes and then apply the look you like with a single click.
• Alignment guides
  Exhibit a designer's touch by aligning shapes, text boxes, and other graphics with text.
• Merge shapes
  Use the Union, Combine, Fragment, Intersect, and Subtract tools to merge two or more shapes into the shape you want.
• Slide zoom
  Direct your audience's attention to your main point. Zoom in on a diagram, chart, or graphic with a couple of clicks, and then zoom out just as smoothly.
• Navigation grid
  Easily switch slides - in or out of sequence - from a grid that only you see, your audience sees only what you've selected.
• Auto-extend
  When you project to a second screen, the settings ensure that your presentation appears on the correct screen.
• Reply comment
  Place and track comments next to the text you're discussing so everyone can readily see who replied to whom, and when.
• Simplified sharing
  Your presentations are saved online to SkyDrive or SharePoint by default. Send everyone a single link to the same file, along with their viewing and editing permissions, and be assured that everyone sees the latest version.
• PowerPoint web app coauthoring
  You and your team can work together on the same presentation at the same time from the desktop or in the browser with the PowerPoint Web App.