Here are seven of PowerPoint 2016’s best new features that significantly enhanced user experience and presentation design:
1. PowerPoint Designer (Design Ideas)
- What it is: This feature uses AI to automatically suggest layout ideas based on the content in your slide. It instantly offers professional-looking designs that save time and enhance slide aesthetics.
- Why it’s great: It allows users with limited design skills to create visually appealing presentations with ease. You simply insert your content, and the tool suggests layout options.
2. Morph Transition
- What it is: The Morph transition enables smooth animation between slides. It lets you create fluid transitions by automatically moving objects from one slide to the next.
- Why it’s great: It’s ideal for storytelling or when you want to create continuous flow animations. This can be used for objects, text, and images, creating dynamic presentations without needing complex animation skills.
3. Real-Time Collaboration
- What it is: PowerPoint 2016 introduced real-time co-authoring, allowing multiple users to work on the same presentation simultaneously.
- Why it’s great: Teams can collaborate more efficiently, whether they’re in the same office or working remotely. This feature ensures everyone is working on the most up-to-date version.
4. Tell Me Feature
- What it is: “Tell Me” is a smart search bar located at the top of the PowerPoint ribbon. It allows you to type in tasks or commands you’re looking for, and PowerPoint helps you find them quickly.
- Why it’s great: This feature is especially useful for users who are unfamiliar with where certain tools or features are located within the software.
5. Ink Equations
- What it is: PowerPoint 2016 lets you insert complex math equations by handwriting them directly into a slide using a stylus or your mouse.
- Why it’s great: This is a great feature for educators, students, or professionals who need to quickly insert mathematical expressions without typing them out.
6. Enhanced Presenter View
- What it is: Presenter View now shows the next slide, speaker notes, and a timer on your monitor while the audience only sees the current slide.
- Why it’s great: This allows for better pacing and control during presentations, giving you confidence in what’s coming next without revealing too much to the audience.
7. Screen Recording
- What it is: PowerPoint 2016 has a built-in screen recording tool that allows you to record your screen directly into a slide. It captures screen actions, along with audio and video, if necessary.
- Why it’s great: It’s ideal for creating tutorial videos or demonstrations without needing to switch to third-party screen recording software.
These features made PowerPoint 2016 a versatile tool for creating visually appealing, collaborative, and interactive presentations, empowering both novice and advanced users to elevate their presentation game.
2. Under the Media group, click on Video and select “Online Video…” from the dropdown options.
3. A window named Insert Video will appear. This will look different from the option to insert a video directly from your PC. If you’re signed in with your Windows ID, you’ll see an additional option aside from YouTube and From Video Embed Code: OneDrive – Personal, which lets you embed videos directly from your OneDrive account.
4. If you’re not signed in, or if you don’t have a Windows ID, only YouTube and From Video Embed Code will appear as your options.
This is a helpful feature to have when you’re editing a presentation on the go. However, you need to make sure you’re logged in with your Windows ID to access this feature.
These options each have a box beside it, which you’ll fill out with relevant information. We’ll walk you through each one below.YouTubeSimply paste your video’s URL into this field. Additionally, PowerPoint can do more than just that.
*SlideGenius tip:This field also serves as a search box. You can type a few keywords, and all videos related to your search query will show up.
Wait for the video’s thumbnail to load. Once it’s loaded, click on it. Then, click Insert to place the video into your slide. You can drag the video around and resize it whichever way you want.
From Video Embed CodeYou can grab a video’s embed code from its YouTube page and paste it into this field. Be sure to check the video’s pixel width and height in the embed code (written as ‘width=”___” height=”___”’). Plugging in this code will resize the video to those dimensions and may result in different resolutions across screens.You can also manually edit the numbers in the “width” and “height” sections to make the video fit your slides. This helps if you want all of your videos to follow a specific size throughout your presentation.
B. Embedding Videos from Your PC
2. Under the Media group, click on Video and select Video on My PC… from the dropdown options. A window named Insert Video will appear, which will allow you to choose among your personal or downloaded files.
3. Once you’ve clicked on the video you want to embed, go to the lower right corner of the Insert Video window and click on the Insert button.
That’s it! You’ve embedded an offline video into your PowerPoint.
2. Look for the Share button below the Subscribe button. Click on it to reveal three tabs: Share, Embed and Email.
3. Click on the Embed tab. A box with the highlighted embed code will appear.
4. Once you’ve found the embed code, right click on the highlighted text and copy. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C. To do this, hold down Ctrl, then press the C key on your keyboard.