This application is much easier to use and simpler to modify than previous versions and PowerPoint 97 makes it easy to make your presentations beautiful. Custom Shows lets you create minipresentations within a singular PowerPoint 97 file. This lets you tailor the message to a variety of audiences without having to rebuild your presentations from scratch. You can now ask for and store and notate comments from other folks in your slides for feedback control. Graph 97 is an enhanced and rich graphing module that will help you add additional chart types, time-scale axes, chart data tables, rotate text on chart axes, use gradient fills in picture art and text and you can animate charts.
Action buttons turn any object on a slide into a hyperlink button.
Voice Narration lets you record and save your voice in a self-running slide show. The secret of this new, cool, mouse is in the new IntelliMouse mouse driver bundled with the new mouse. Functionality of the wheel is application-dependent. For example, by employing the IntelliMouse AutoScroll mode, you can easily can read World Wide Web pages in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 hands-free. When working in Microsoft Excel for Office 97, you can zoom out or zoom in on a spreadsheet view by holding down the CTRL key and rolling the IntelliMouse wheel.