Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Frequently Asked Questions

Office PowerPoint 2007 provides you with an easy way to quickly create powerful, great-looking presentations using the new graphics capabilities, advanced slide layout capabilities, and style galleries, all located in an easy-to-use, results-oriented interface. With Office PowerPoint 2007, you can save time creating and formatting presentations with PowerPoint 2007 themes that ensure a consistent look and feel across your presentation elements and output. Collaborate with coworkers and work more efficiently with Office PowerPoint 2007 slide libraries and by saving presentations to Portable Document Format file (PDF) or in XML Paper Specification (XPS) formats.

Office PowerPoint 2007 is for people who want to create and share dynamic presentations. Users will benefit from new charting and diagramming tools, improvements in layout and formatting capabilities, the new user interface, and many other features. There are many new capabilities in Office PowerPoint 2007 to improve the presentation creation experience for everyone.

Office PowerPoint 2007 will help people create great-looking presentations in less time than ever before. Use Office PowerPoint 2007 to:

Office PowerPoint 2007 can be used as the program for individual presentation creation, but is equally applicable to more advanced scenarios that require the interaction of many people. Using Office PowerPoint 2007:

Find pricing and licensing information on the 2007 Microsoft Office System Pricing page.

Yes. Find packaging information on the 2007 Microsoft Office Packaging page.

The Microsoft Office system provides customers with a set of programs that they can choose from to best address their business needs. Office PowerPoint 2007 is the interface that enables individuals, teams, and organizations to create and share dynamic presentations in less time than ever before.

See the system requirements for Office PowerPoint 2007.

Office PowerPoint 2007 works with any XML-enabled database or server by providing support for Web services and database interoperability.

Office PowerPoint 2007 introduces the new Microsoft Office PowerPoint XML Format, a compact, robust file format enabling improved integration with external data sources and systems. The PowerPoint XML Format is compatible with Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2000 with the addition of a file format converter patch, available from Microsoft Office Online and Microsoft Update. Users of Microsoft Office 2003, Office XP, and Office 2000 can open, edit, and save files using the new PowerPoint XML Format.

Office PowerPoint 2007 introduces a new file format that addresses a number of important issues. File sizes for documents stored in this new format are significantly smaller than earlier Microsoft Office file formats (.ppt). Because of the way that data is stored within the presentations, the recovery of corrupt or damaged files is much improved. Additionally, because the file format is XML-based, with an open, royalty-free license, developers can more easily build solutions that use PowerPoint contents and metadata.

XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is an open, industry-standard language for organizing and storing data. Having data in XML means that the information is transportable and can be easily shared and reused.

Office PowerPoint 2007 supports XML in many ways. The default file format for Office PowerPoint 2007 is the Microsoft Office PowerPoint XML Format, which is a compact, robust file format based on XML. The PowerPoint XML Format offers a substantial reduction in presentation sizes, improved data recovery for damaged presentations, and support for custom-defined schema to facilitate the inclusion of custom-defined XML data in Office PowerPoint 2007 presentations.

Office PowerPoint 2007 also enables people to create and deploy structured presentation templates that integrate custom XML information with other content. By creating content bindings, people can link the data in an Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation to an external data source.

When combined with Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office PowerPoint 2007 allows users to easily share, reuse, and connect content from multiple PowerPoint presentations using PowerPoint Slide Libraries. Office SharePoint Server 2007 also provides powerful out-of-the-box functionality for creating and managing presentation review and approval workflows, and other types of workflows that can be defined. Office SharePoint Server 2007 takes care of the management and administrative tasks for the workflow, leaving Office PowerPoint 2007 to consume the results and complete the processes successfully. Organizations can automatically assign policies to newly created PowerPoint presentations, without requiring users to take any special action.

Using the collaboration features in Windows SharePoint Services technology, organizations can help their employees create and manage rich, easy-to-build Web sites to work together on presentations, documents, projects, and tasks. These sites can be organized, discovered, and used throughout the organization. Features such as presentation versioning, approval workflow, check in and check out, presentation profiling, and publishing can help improve information flow. Intranet and extranet sites can be personalized and customized using advanced user-profiling capabilities.