Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 provides you with an easy way to quickly create powerful, great-looking presentations using new SmartArt graphics, advanced slide layout capabilities, and style galleries, all located in the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface. With Office PowerPoint 2007, you can save time creating and formatting presentations with Document Themes that help ensure a consistent look and feel across all your documents. Share slides with your coworkers more efficiently with Office PowerPoint 2007 Slide Libraries and by saving presentations as XPS and PDF files.¹

Office PowerPoint 2007 is for anyone who wants to create and share dynamic presentations. You can benefit from new charting and diagramming tools, improvements in layout and formatting capabilities, the Office Fluent user interface, and many other features. Many new capabilities have been included in Office PowerPoint 2007 to improve the presentation creation experience for everyone.

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

• Create great-looking presentations with new SmartArt diagramming and charting tools and easy-to-use custom layout tools, effects, themes, and style galleries.
• Share documents with other people by converting PowerPoint presentations to PDF or XPS, or by initiating a review and approval workflow directly from Office PowerPoint 2007.
• Remove sensitive or personally identifiable information from your presentations, including comments and embedded metadata.
• Enhance protection of your presentations by applying a digital signature or marking them as final to prevent future changes.

Office PowerPoint 2007 can be used to create presentations individually, but is also effective for more collaborative scenarios that require the contribution of many people. Using Office PowerPoint 2007:

• A corporate communications department can create and deploy structured templates that enforce branding or other formatting guidelines in documents.
• A developer can use the XML integration capabilities to integrate live data sources into presentations, so that your slides always contain the latest information.
• Any person can quickly assemble presentations from the slides of previously created presentations using PowerPoint Slide Libraries so they can avoid having to recreate slides that already exist.

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

You can download a free trial of Office PowerPoint 2007 (as part of Office Professional 2007). Or, you can try Office PowerPoint 2007 in your browser through the 2007 Microsoft Office system online test drive.

The Microsoft Office system provides a set of programs that users can choose from to best address their needs. Microsoft Office Word 2007 can be used as the interface to help gather information more effectively. Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a spreadsheet program that can help you analyze numerical data. Microsoft Office Access 2007 is a database management program for storing information and creating reports. Use Office PowerPoint 2007 to graphically present information.

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

XML 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 PowerPoint presentations.

Office PowerPoint 2007 also enables users 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 a PowerPoint presentation to an external data source.