PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

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 will surely 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: Adobe Acrobat, PDF, PowerPoint 2007, Tutorials

Password Protection for PDFs in Adobe Acrobat

This is the final part of the PowerPoint to Secure PDF series in which we 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.

Learn how you can enable password protection of PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Pro.

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

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 the Advanced Search option in Google to limit your searches to PowerPoint files.

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

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