Overall Overall, the thing that you really notice is that everything seems to happen much quicker than in previous versions. This is apparent throughout PowerPoint 2013, but to satisfy myself that I wasn??t imagining it, I did a quick test. Inserting a piece of music into a slide in PowerPoint 2010 = 9.5 seconds PowerPoint 2013 = less than 1 second The suspected improvement is real and significant (to the point that I am unembarrassed about using a stopwatch in the office)! And finally, some of the things that haven??t come true from my PowerPoint 2013 hopes? there are still no ??Insert Icons?? or ??Insert Silhouettes?? buttons and the animation ??Random Bars?? is still there! Still, you can??t have everything! Jo Fahey So, in our opinion, PowerPoint 2013 is a worthy successor to 2010 and has taken some big steps forward in functionality. It??s not the huge leap we had from 2003 to 2007, but there is a lot to be said about not fixing what isn??t broken. PowerPoint 2013 means that PowerPoint users across the land can save even more time and work with less stressful animations, leaving them extra energy to let their imaginations (and their storytelling skills) run wild! Thank you, Microsoft! It finally feels like we are on the same page?