While creating a slide in PowerPoint a few months ago I came across something a little bit awesome. I apologise if you’ve seen this before, but I showed it to a few people at work and they weren’t aware of it so, it’s always good to share. I was arranging pictures so that they layered on top of one another, and needed to change the arrangement.

Right click > Reorder Overlapping Objects

And this is what you get, full screen 3D object manipulation:

 

 

This is called ‘dynamic ordering’ and is Microsoft’s doing. It’s a really good way of matching the interaction with the user’s model of how to move objects by basic dragging and I have to say it’s the most pleasing thing I’ve experienced in Powerpoint since I learnt how to animate text and images and implement transitions at the age of about 11 or 12. Stroke of genius, I wish there were more.