PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PPTools PPT Merge: The Indezine Review

Out of the box, Microsoft builds little or no integration or relationships within PowerPoint to other Microsoft Office applications. To provide a quick example, PowerPoint users have nothing close to the mail merge options in Word or Outlook that can access data from an Excel or database source. And that’s sort of sad, since PowerPoint is one application that can act as glue to all sorts of content: from text to pictures, and movies to charts! Our review product, PPT Merge does try to cover this vacuum. Does it succeed?

Read the Indezine review of PPT Merge.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Review, Steve Rindsberg

Encrypt with Password Option in PowerPoint 2003 and 2002 for Windows

Why would anyone want to password-protect their PowerPoint presentations? There are many reasons, and here are some of them. A presentation with confidential content can be prevented from being edited if it is password protected. Nobody without access to the password can open or edit the presentation file. The password-protected presentation is safer to share. You can provide the password to the person whom you are sharing the presentation with if they need to edit. In addition to providing a password-to-open option, PowerPoint provides a less restrictive password-to-modify option. So, your presentation can be opened by anybody, but can’t be modified, this makes your content non editable.

Learn how to password-encrypt your presentation in PowerPoint 2003 and 2002 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: Password, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003, Tutorials

Encrypt with Password Option in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows

PowerPoint 2007 offers two password choices. The first one is a Password to Open option that lets you type a password in the field, and the next time you or anybody else opens the file, PowerPoint will prompt you to enter the password. The second is a Password to Modify option that lets you type a password in the field to make the presentation readable and visible, but not editable.

Learn how to password-encrypt your presentation in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.

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

Adding Transitions in Adobe Acrobat

In a previous tutorial of this PowerPoint to Secure PDF series, we learned how to set PDF to play in full screen mode. If your PDF is playing full screen, and you want it to look like a presentation, it’s a great idea to add page transitions, so that it mimics a PowerPoint presentation.

Learn how you can add pages transitions to PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Pro.

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

Design Shapes: The Circle, Part III

Continuing our discussion on circles (see Circles I and Circles II), this time we look at creating circles in an application outside PowerPoint.

Specifically, our team was doing a review of Artlandia’s new SymmetryWorks plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that lets you create organic looking patterns from all shapes. Since we are biased towards circles at this point in time, we decided to create a repeating circular pattern using SymmetryWorks. These patterns were intended as a starting point for PowerPoint backgrounds.

Look at these patterns here:

Circle Patterns 01

Circle Patterns 02

Circle Patterns 03

Circle Patterns 04

Circle Patterns 05

So, what do we do with circles next? Wait and watch, or send us your thoughts.

Filed Under: Design
Tagged as: Design, PowerPoint, Shapes