In Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, the new Sections feature can be used to organize your slides, like you would use folders to organize your files. You can use named sections to keep track of groups of slides and you can assign different sections to different people to be able to collaborate.
Sections can be viewed in either Slide Sorter view or Normal view. The Slide Sorter view is more useful when you want to organize and sort your slides into logical categories that you have defined.
To add and name a section, you need to perform the following steps:
To move a section right-click the section that you want to move, and then click Move Section Up or Move Section Down option from the pop-up menu.
You can compare and merge your current presentation with another one by using the Merge and Compare feature in PowerPoint 2010. This comes in use if you work with others on presentations and use network shares or mailing to communicate changes with others.
This feature is especially useful when you want to compare two versions of a presentation, which has differences.You can choose to discard or accept the changes you would like to keep for the final presentation.
The Merge and Compare feature reduces the duration of synchronization of edits from multiple versions of the same presentation. The Merge and Compare feature is available in the Compare group of the Review tab
To Merge and Compare, you need to perform the following steps:
1. Open the presentation that you want to merge or compare.
2. Click the Compare button in the Compare group of the Review tab. The Choose File to Merge with Current Presentation dialog box appears, as shown in the following figure.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 has powerful formatting and editing capabilities for embedded videos in slide shows. You can apply many of the artistic effects to the embedded videos in Office 2010 that can be applied to the images. Videos can be embedded from your hard drive, an online video site, or Clip Art gallery. The embedded formats that are supported are Windows video file (avi), Windows media files (asf, wmv), MP4 video, MPEG, QuickTime movie file MPEG-2 TS and Adobe Flash.
To embed a video in a slide, you need to click the drop-down arrow of the Video button in the media group of the Insert tab. A drop down menu with Video from File, Video from Web Site, and Clip Art Video options appear. Choose one of the options that will help you to insert the desired vedio.
PowerPoint 2010 also has powerful formatting and editing capabilities for videos without the need for any supporting software. To edit an embedded video, you need to right-click the embedded video. This gives many options for formatting and editing. The mini toolbar for sizing and positioning the video gives one click access to many settings like length, width of the video frame, adding subtitle text, bringing the video forward or backward, cropping and rotation, as shown in the following figure.