The Microsoft Office is the world's most popular office software with a variety of individual features that exist for different applications. With Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 which is a part of the suite, you can choose a globally popular solution for making all kinds of presentations. These are used, for example, for company meetings or seminars in universities and other institutions. The Edition 2013 is currently one of the most popular variants of PowerPoint, which offers new strengths, especially with its online features. PowerPoint 2013 also provides new strengths and features for templates and designs as well as for collaborative projects.

Use a variety of convenient online features

The business world has become much more digital over the past decade, and online meetings have become the norm in many businesses. This is also where Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 comes in with new online features not found in previous generations of office software.

From now on, it is possible to create interactive online presentations and share them over the Internet. Audios and videos can be easily integrated and retrieved individually by the respective user of the online presentation. These presentations are filed via OfficeMix.com as a central platform, where Microsoft assures you a variety of statistical and business analyzes.

Using the cloud for collaborative work

Besides the presentation itself, the Internet offers the possibility to connect with people from different places. The same applies to the preparation and processing of the content before the first public or company presentation. Using Microsoft OneDrive (not included in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013) as the default cloud, PowerPoint 2013 will allow all users of the cloud to access the presentations. The changes are presented here, of course, in real-time. This allows you and your colleagues to see what changes are being made in the cloud in the meantime. Instead of using OneDrive, you can also use your website or your company's server as a cloud platform.

New features in templates, design, and editing

For the easier creation of presentations, the 2013 edition offers many extras and variations in design. Various font families, color palettes and more can be accessed with a few clicks, edited and put together according to individual preferences. More precise implementation of the animation paths is possible, and also distances of different objects from each other on individual pages will be automatically aligned easily. With a simple keystroke, you can create shapes that are composed of several objects directly as a new, stand-alone object. There were also major enhancements in the field of referent tools, for example with a magnifying glass for a better view of statistics and graphs.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 - as an individual program vs. as part of the Office suite?

If you are interested only in creating presentations, PowerPoint 2013 is the ideal choice as a stand-alone component. More commonly, PowerPoint is purchased as part of the entire office. Above all, Word for text editing and Excel as a spreadsheet are other standard programs that are indispensable for everyday use in the office life. Compared to purchasing all of the individual components separately, you benefit from a price advantage if you choose the full suite. This makes editing across application boundaries possible, for example, you can integrate tables and statistics from Excel directly into your PowerPoint presentation.

Platform: Windows
Operating system: Windows 7 to Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2012 R2
Processor: 1 GHz or faster, x86 or 64-bit processor
Memory: 1 GB (32-bit version), 2 GB (64-bit version)
Hard disk: 3 GB (for the Microsoft Office)
Graphics card: DirectX10 graphics card, min. Resolution 1024 x 576 px