Microsoft KB Archive/30832

PowerPoint: Changes in Version 2.00 PSS ID Number: Q30832 Article last modified on 03-03-1991 PSS database name: M_PowerPt

2.00

MACINTOSH

Summary:

Microsoft PowerPoint version 2.00 is a major upgrade from PowerPoint version 1.00. The main features are the addition of extensive color support, a built-in spelling checker, Find and Replace commands, new drawing commands, and the ability to import encapsulated PostScript (EPS) graphics files.

Following is a list of the new features and changes in PowerPoint version 2.00, taken from pages 344 through 347 of the “Microsoft PowerPoint User’s Manual” for version 2.0. These features are organized by the following menus: File, Edit, View, Style, Text, Draw, and Color. Default setting changes are listed at the end.

More Information:

File Menu
The Paste From command includes the ability to paste EPSF (Encapsulated PostScript Format) files into a presentation. PowerPoint changes the file to PICT format (but still retains the PostScript embedded in the picture as comments) so it can be copied to other programs, even if the other programs do not use EPSF.

Page Setup has an additional option on the second dialog box for setting the size of the PowerPoint slide to the dimensions of the computer screen. This option makes it easier to prepare presentations made specifically to be shown on-screen.

Print has options for printing a color presentation on a monochrome printer (Macintosh II only) and for printing pages back to front, or front to back. (Please note that version 1.00 does not have these color print options and only allows you to print back to front on the LaserWriter or front to back on other printers.)

Slide Show includes a Choose Monitor dialog box if you have two monitors attached to the computer, allowing you to choose which monitor will display the slide show.

Edit Menu
The Select All command selects all the objects on the slide or notes page, or all the slides in the slide or title sorter viewer. (Please note that in version 1.00, you must drag over all the objects, slides, or titles, or select them while holding down the SHIFT key.)

The Bring To Front command puts the selected object on top of all the remaining objects on the slide.

The Send To Back command puts the selected object underneath the others on the slide. (Please note that in version 1.00, cutting and pasting the selected object is the only way to put it on top of or behind the rest of the objects.)

View Menu
The Notes command has COMMAND+E as its keyboard equivalent. (Please note that the keyboard equivalent in version 1.00 is COMMAND+F [which is now Find Next].)

Style Menu
Font and Size are now submenus on the Style menu; Font is for choosing a particular typeface, and Size is for choosing a particular size. You can now change the font or size of text without having to add that font or size to the menu. (The list of fonts is derived from the fonts available in your System Folder.) (Please note that in version 1.00, fonts are chosen by name and size at the bottom of the Style menu. You install fonts using the Other Fonts command.)

The Other command on the Size submenu shows a dialog box for choosing a new, nonstandard font size. (Note that in version 1.00, Font sizes are installed with the Other Fonts command.)

Styles is a menu item for selecting custom styles. You define the styles using the Define Styles command. This menu will appear in either the color of the background when no object is selected or the color of the selected object.

The Define Styles command replaces the Other Fonts command. Define Styles now includes the choice of font color and shows a sample of the custom style.

Text Menu
The new Find/Replace command shows a dialog box for defining words or phrases for PowerPoint to find and replace in the entire presentation.

The new Find Next command finds the next instance of a defined word phrase in the entire presentation.

The new Spelling command checks the spelling of the text in the entire presentation. You can also define a custom dictionary to be used in conjunction with PowerPoint’s main dictionary.

Draw Menu
Pattern shows a submenu of pattern choices, rather than a separate menu, as in version 1.00.

Line Style is now a submenu showing the selection of line styles.

Arrowheads is now a submenu showing the selection of arrowhead choices.

Color Menu
All the color features are new. They include choosing standard color schemes, creating your own color schemes, coloring the attributes of objects independently, changing the color of the entire presentation by changing the color scheme, shading the background of slides, and recoloring pictures copied to your presentation from other programs.

Default Changes
The default title size is now 36 point instead of 24 point, as in version 1.00.

You can create your own default presentation containing all of the defaults that you want when you open a new presentation. The presentation containing your defaults must be named “Default Format”.

If you do not create a default presentation, PowerPoint will use its own standard defaults.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.