Introduction and new features

It is important to note that a presentation is a collection of slides around a specific topic, generally delivered to an audience by a speaker. PowerPoint offers the user various slide views and printed formats (such as overhead slides, speaker notes, audience handouts, or outlines). The user makes the presentation professional, visually attractive, and understandable by adding elements such as special effects, sound, animation, and transitional effects to view on the screen. Slides are the separate pages of the presentation to which elements such as graphs, tables, shapes, WordArt, SmartArt, clip art, and other objects are added.

We will not cover all the interface skills here as you have been through these in the previous chapters, and these are identical across Office 2019.

There are a few new enhancements in PowerPoint 2019 that we will address practically throughout this part of the book, but we will highlight the following list as an introduction:

• Morph effect: The Morph tool helps you create smooth transitions by moving items around at the same time, and is illustrated in the following screenshot:

• Zoom: This allows the presenter to jump to a certain slide during a presentation with ease. The Zoom tool is illustrated in the following screenshot:

• Text highlighter: This tool allows you to apply highlight colors to text within a presentation to create emphasis, just as in Word 2019! It is illustrated in the following screenshot:

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and other graphic properties: SVG files can have color changes, can be disassembled and reassembled, and do not lose any quality when the size of the image changes. SVG files can also be converted to shapes in PowerPoint 2019, and 3D models can be inserted so that rotation can be utilized. Image background removal is also enhanced, as you no longer need to be restricted to highlighting areas to be removed via straight lines.
• 4K resolution for video: You can record video, audio, and inking and export video at 4K resolution, all available from the Recording tab, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

• Inking: Highlighter pens are available in all the Office apps, which can be customized and are portable—this includes the new Effects option and a segment eraser when drawing. There is also support for touchscreens when placing objects on straight lines using the Ruler. These features can be seen in the following screenshot:

• Digital pen to navigate a slide show: You can advance slides using a Bluetooth pen in PowerPoint 2019.
• Charts: There are new charts available, such as Map and Funnel charts, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

These are some of the stunning new features available in the PowerPoint 2019 application.