PowerPoint and Presenting Blog: December 2005
Thoughts and impressions of whatever is happening in the world of PowerPoint.
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PowerPoint and Presenting Notes
PowerPoint and Presenting Glossary
Today's free template is Plus Plus - download here...
The Microsoft Project Report Presentation Add-in for Microsoft Office Project 2003 helps a user to quickly and easily create a PowerPoint presentation from a Project file. The tool extracts task information from the Project file and populates a PowerPoint template with the user-selected information. Download here...
Today's free template is Ornament 01 - download here...
PresentationPoint's MessagePoint allows you to run a PowerPoint presentation as screen saver - download a free copy here...
Today's free template is Green Suns - download here...
DAZ|Studio is a free 3D application that allows you to easily create rendered scenes. You can use this software to load in people, animals, vehicles, buildings, props, and accessories to create digital scenes. Here's a guide that shows you how you can add a model, giving her hair and some clothes, and then change her pose and expression. Read more...
Today's free template is Silver Checks - download here...
At last week's DV Expo West in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Serious Magic showed their upcoming Ovation software which they claim will solve all of PowerPoint's shortcomings. Not only will Ovation change any static PowerPoint presentation into a colorful and swirling 3D one, but it also has many features that help the speaker stay on course. More on the TG Daily site...
James Theall is CEO of Media Marketing Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based software and service company that has recently launched SlideManager for PowerPoint. James remains obsessed with automating the model that shifts individuals creating their own presentations (PowerPoint’s original model) to the hub-and-spoke model that moves presentation building out into the field while maintaining knowledge, story points and design standards. In this interview, James talks about slide management, SlideManager, and case studies...
Today's free template is Realisation - download here...
When Microsoft says the next version of Office is its most important revision in over a decade, it's not kidding. New XML-based default file formats and a major interface revision are intended to make the market-dominating productivity suite more flexible and accessible than ever....But lurking behind the scenes is a change that may ultimately prove even more significant than the interface makeover: Microsoft's replacement of its current proprietary default file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt, and so on) with new compressed XML-based file formats, denoted by the addition of the letter x to the traditional file extensions. Read more on ABC News.com...
It's so easy to be optimistic about the next version of PowerPoint - Microsoft has added tons of new features to the program in what might be the most revolutionary release of this venerated presentation platform. Read more here...
Today's free template is Feathers - download here...
Today's free template is Pastures - download here...
Have you ever wanted to fill a picture with a gradient – or another picture in PowerPoint? Have you wanted to blend two pictures in PowerPoint to create a montage? More importantly, have you been frustrated running images between Photoshop and PowerPoint to achieve some simple effects - learn more on the InfoComm site...
“Ohh, cool” resounded in a school computer lab — but not from students — as four teachers at Highland Lakes School, 19000 N. 63rd Ave., learned from students how to create a PowerPoint presentation. “It’s fun to turn the tables on our teachers,” said seventh-grader Cara Aguiar, who helped a teacher spice up her PowerPoint slides with sound effects. More on the Newszap site...
Recosoft announced PDF2Office Professional 3.0 for Mac OS X, a major upgrade to the PDF-to-Office format conversion tool. Version 3.0 offers over 200 new features and enhancements, as well as the ability to convert PDF files to Macintosh PowerPoint 98-2004 and Windows PowerPoint 97-2003 formats. More on the MacNN site...
Today's free template is Meadow Greens - download here...
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