An introduction and new features

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 these were covered in this book's previous edition, Learn Microsoft Office 2019. The interface compared to Office 2019 is very similar but considerably clearer in terms of icon sketching across the Office 2021 platform, with rounder windows for dialog boxes and ribbon corners.

There are a few new enhancements in PowerPoint 2021, which we will address practically throughout this part of the book, but we...