Clicking this button, the selection pane will be opened at the right side of the slide. To access the Selection Pane option, go to Shape Format menu and then look for Selection Pane button. Re-arrange components (slides, text placeholders or objects).The Selection Pane is extremely useful when there are multiple components on a slide and all these components are stacked on top of each other. What is the Selection Pane? It is a pane available in PowerPoint that helps to keep track of all the components used on a slide (shapes, objects or text placeholders). Now, Mac users can start using Selection Pane in PowerPoint to re-arrange the shapes used in a PowerPoint slide, make certain shape visible or hidden, or change the shape names. The new PowerPoint version for Mac (PowerPoint 15.18) rolled this new feature for OSX users, too. Remember, a well-designed PowerPoint presentation uses animation judiciously but sometimes it’s desirable and appropriate to use a much more active visual animation on a PowerPoint slide.
Until now, this feature was only available on Windows versions of Microsoft PowerPoint, however this has been changed. SmartArt is a fun tool that you can use to animate graphics on your PowerPoint 2011 for Mac presentation. Selection Pane is a very powerful productivity tool for PowerPoint users.
