PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

New Features in PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint 2010 is so much awaited, and it’s great to know that Microsoft has unwrapped some information on what’s new in this upcoming release of the world’s leading presentation program.

The new Office 2010 site has videos that show new features for all of the Office 2010 programs including PowerPoint. PowerPoint 2010 provides cool Artistic Effects for photos with live previews. New transitions have been added, and the Animation Painter option copies animations from one slide object to another, and that’s so cool if you have added and fine-tuned your animation sequences and timings for one object and want it repeated on another! There are new video options including reflections for video clips, video trimming capabilities, and new navigation controls. File compression works better and you can save your PowerPoints as video clips. New Slide Sections lets you organize your slides into logical sections. SharePoint integration gets better with the Broadcast feature for slide shows that lets you show your presentations to other in their web browsers!

This embedded video from YouTube shows you more.

And I cover the rest of the Office 2010 applications in my new Techmazine site: see What’s New in Office 2010?

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010

Winning at Trial with a Dynamic PowerPoint Presentation

A lot is at stake—power, money, reputation, future plans, justice. You need to win this case. Your presentation materials surely will play an important role in helping the judge and jury experience the sights, sounds, and details of the case … or not. The choice is up to you, says one tech-savvy attorney. It all depends upon whether you are willing to push PowerPoint beyond its normal boundaries to maximize its interactive and persuasive potential.

Robert Lane and Bruce A. Olson provides a better idea for using PowerPoint in court.

Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Guest Post, Legal, Opinion, PowerPoint, Robert Lane

Using Adobe’s PDF Print Driver in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows

In an earlier tutorial of this PowerPoint to PDF series, we have shown you how to use Office 2007’s Save as PDF option, which is an easy way to convert a PowerPoint presentation to a PDF. However, this native option does have some limitations. Primarily, you can only save your slides as PDFs. You cannot save your handouts as PDFs, or even print multiple slides on a single PDF page. For these missing options, you’ll need to use Adobe’s PDF Print Driver.

Learn how to save slides as a PDF in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: PDF, PowerPoint 2007, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint: Password Protecting Adobe Acrobat PDFs

This is the final part of the PowerPoint to Secure PDF series in which I show you how to do more than just create a secure PDF from your PowerPoint slides. You learned how you could create PDFs that played full screen and also had transitions! Now, it’s time to make your PDF entirely secure with password access.

Follow these steps to get started.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: PDF, PowerPoint 2007, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint: Search Google for PowerPoint Files

Google is a web search engine which indexes all sorts of information on the World Wide Web. Search results on Google typically contain results that consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. What many users don’t know is that Google allows you to restrict your search for a particular file type, such as a PowerPoint presentation! In this tutorial, we’ll show you how you can search for PowerPoint presentations only using Google’s Advanced Search option.

Learn more now.

Filed Under: Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Google, PowerPoint, Tutorials