Capture eyes and ears. When you use PowerPoint 2008 for Mac, inspiration flows from the podium. Audiences smile back as they see what you mean more clearly than ever before.  You'll have your audience fully engaged when you create eye-catching presentations with new templates, custom layouts, and improved presenter tools. |
Themes and Templates
Go from Good to Great
With just a click, entrepreneurs are creating polished business plans; job-seekers are crafting class-act resumes; and businesses are publishing eye-catching newsletters. Get great-looking designs fast with fresh new designer templates.
Tie It All Together
Want a consistent, professional look across all your documents? From spreadsheets and presentations to business letters and reports, design themes let you present one fantastic look and feel. When you want, easily change your look with just one click!
Enjoy a Head Start
Your shortcut to great-looking documents starts with a stunning design template. Add Elements Gallery building blocks. Switch themes or styles with just a click. And become well-known overnight for your fantastic-looking newsletters, presentations, and reports.
Presentations & Publications
Lined Up for Success
As text and graphics align, your audience sees the big picture. Stop wondering whether objects on your slides line up with each other. Instead, use static and dynamic guides to organize slides for an accurate, crisp, clean design--quick.
See Your Story Develop
Create consistency as you edit. View fully-rendered, dynamic thumbnails in PowerPoint's left pane to visualize the flow of your presentations as you build them, and preview changes as you make them.
 Get great-looking designs fast with fresh new designer templates. |
 Save a presentation to iPhoto, and seamlessly review your slides on your iPod or iPhone before that big sales pitch. |
Know When to Stop
A successful presentation is a well-timed one. Stay on track and stay on schedule with a digital interface showing both elapsed and actual clock time. Speakers, students, and presenters will love the ability to start, stop, and reset the timer on the fly when practicing speeches.
Interacting with PowerPoint
Present on iPod & iPhone
Leave your laptop behind--salespeople and presenters can now grab success by the hand. Save a presentation to iPhoto, and seamlessly review your slides on your iPod or iPhone before that big sales pitch.
Free Yourself from Your Mouse
Speakers, presenters, and team leaders can now roam the room, pace the stage, and focus on the people in the audience instead of getting back to heir laptop to advance their slides. Thanks to Mac's Apple Remote Control.
Share Your Photos in Slides
Share your stories and digital photos via presentations sure to create their own memories with animated effects and custom soundtracks. Use your remote control to step through slideshows on your Mac.
All across Office 2008
Discover Unique Building Blocks
All across Office, you'll find new ways to work faster with each application's Element Gallery. Discover beautiful chart options in Excel; animated slide transitions in PowerPoint; and easily assembled Document Elements and Quick Tables in Word.
Paint a Clearer Picture
Showing the world what you want them to see just got easier, with SmartArt graphics. Lawyers are communicating more clearly. Research scientists are giving their theories shape. Statisticians are illustrating what their numbers actually mean.
Become an Instant Artist
Just click to add special effects, enliven communications, and turn static data into animated works of art. Using the sophisticated graphics and modern text effects of OfficeArt, non-artists are impressing audiences everywhere with their design sense.
