Adding Date & time to PowerPoint slides in your presentation, will make your presentations more informative for both speaker as well as audience when the presentation is delivered. There is a simple way to add date and time to PowerPoint slides. To Show Date and Time on a Slide in PowerPoint 2010 follow the steps:

1. From the Ribbon, click View tab, and choose Normal Presentation view from Left Hand side Corner.

PowerPoint 2010 includes a number of themes that provides a way of applying a set of colors, fonts and effects to presentations to achieve stunning presentations. Apart from using the bundled themes, user can customize them and can create new Themes in PowerPoint as well. To create themes in PowerPoint 2010 follow the steps:

The Components of a PowerPoint Theme

PowerPoint 2010 comes equipped with a wide variety of themes that provides a way of applying a set of colors, fonts and effects to presentations to achieve stunning presentations.

To access and apply themes in Office 2010 follow the steps:

1. Navigate to Design tab > Themes.

2. Click the dialogue box launcher to see the themes that come with PowerPoint 2010 by default.

PowerPoint slideshow can be made dynamic and animated using various animation effects. You can add animation to different elements on a slide including text, images, charts etc. Many a times there is need of replication of exact animation from one slide to another slide. Adding each animation individually consume more time, however starting PowerPoint 2010, The animation capabilities have been also been improved, and you can now copy animation effects from object to object using a new Animation Painter that works much like the Format Painter in Microsoft Word 2010. Animation effects can be applied to all elements in single click using ‘Animation Painter’ feature in PowerPoint 2010.

Working over a PC that does not have PowerPoint installed and you have to open an important presentation ? PowerPoint viewer brings the solution for such instances. PowerPoint Viewer lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions with full fidelity without even installing PowerPoint from the Office Suite. This viewer also supports opening password-protected Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. You can view and print presentations, but you cannot edit them in the PowerPoint Viewer.

One of the most important feature in an email is a Signatures that can be appended at the end of the email and contains contact information, salutation etc. Signatures can be set in an email client so they don’t need to be retyped every time a new mail is drafted. Microsoft Outlook 2010 too provides the ability to integrate and save email signatures. To create a signature & save it for future use in Microsoft Outlook 2010 follow the steps :

Microsoft Outlook is the a powerful and intuitive e-mail client software from Microsoft that provides a rich set of e-mail management tools to send, receive mails, manage your schedule, contacts, tasks & record activities and to help you better manage your emails. External email clients like Gmail can be configures to Microsoft Outlook 2010 so that these users too can enjoy the features of it. To configure an email account with Microsoft Outlook 2010 : (For illustration, I have taken Gmail as an example)

Microsoft Office 2010 suite includes a program Microsoft Publisher2010. Publisher 2010 can be used to create professional high quality publications and marketing materials, such as newsletters & brochures. Creating Business cards using Publisher 2010 is easier and more convenient than in other program of Office suite.

To create a Business Card using Microsoft Publisher 2010 :

1. Launch the Microsoft Publisher 2010 application from the Start Menu.

Background Removal is a new feature in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook that makes the process quick and easy for any picture. No expensive photo editing package required and no need to learn the cumbersome process of selecting and removing portions of the image. The Office Background Removal tool doesn’t just select color ranges or trim to a border you draw. Background Removal uses new capabilities and algorithms from the Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK to achieve better results automatically with very little effort or fine tuning from the user.

Microsoft Word 2010 comes with a default font Calibri(Body) with Font size 11 and no formatting like Bold, Italics etc. What if you need a different font of your taste to type every time you open word? Off course you can always change the font every time you open a Word document, but there is a way easier for the same. Word 2010 allows user to customize the default font. When you customize a default font, every new document you open will use the font settings that you selected and set as the default. The default font applies to every new Word documents Even, Templates can be created to use different default font settings.