PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Animated Headshots in PowerPoint

You can see that a series of headshot pictures are animated in sequence to create an effective collage slide that can function as the starting slide for a presentation on a relevant subject suited for this type of an opening. You can also use the same technique for product shots or vacation pictures. Just substitute the headshots with the other pictures! So, how was this created?

Learn how to animate a series of headshots.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Animation, Cool Stuff, Photos, Pictures, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Tutorials

Animation Speed in PowerPoint 2007, 2003, and 2002 for Windows

When you add animation to any slide object and set the animation event for it to occur, the next thing to do is set the speed of the animation. In this tutorial, we explore speed presets in PowerPoint that determine how long an animation takes to complete.

Explore the concept of animation speed in PowerPoint 2007, 2003, and 2002 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007, Tutorials

Book Excerpts: VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming

This exclusive book extract from VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming is presented here with permission from Packt Publishing.

The book, authored by Vivek Thangaswamy, will help you get started with using VSTO in several Microsoft Office 2007 applications, including InfoPath, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc. The excerpt on this site looks at customizing the Ribbon interface in PowerPoint 2007.

Read an exclusive book excerpt from VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming is presented here with permission from Packt Publishing.

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Tagged as: Books, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint 2007

Advanced Presentations by Design: The Andrew Abela Interview

  Andrew Abela is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Chair-elect of the Department of Business & Economics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and author of Advanced Presentations by Design.

His consulting clients include Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Motorola, Burger King, eBay, and Kimberly-Clark. Prior to academia, he ran the Marketing Leadership Council, was a consultant with McKinsey & Co., and a brand manager at Procter & Gamble. He lives with his wife and their six children in Great Falls, Virginia, and was born and raised on the island of Malta.

In this interview, Andrew talks about his book, Advanced Presentations by Design.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Andrew Abela, Books, Interviews, PowerPoint, Presentations

Slide Executive Professional 3.0 for Universities and Non-Profits

  Liber Rodriguez-Florez of Novatrox sent us this awesome bit of info that should make universities and non-profit educational institutions very happy indeed. They have decided to give away their amazing slide cataloging and management program for free to them for installation on institutional servers.

“Being able to search the entire University knowledge base of presentations to find individual slides will save scientists and researchers huge amounts of time”, says Jonas Fernholm, CEO at Novatrox AB.

Free non-profit educational licenses can be obtained from Novatrox AB.

Slide Executive Professional enables organizations to store their presentation content in a single slide library, making it available to business professionals and decision-makers throughout the enterprise and through any web browser, from anywhere in the world. Slide Executive provides simple, one-click presentation browsing, advanced slide search functionality, easy assembly of new presentations with approved content, virtual presentations automatically updating to the latest version of each slide, and advanced user management functions including audit trail.

For organizations with many presentations, Slide Executive Professional will save lots of time and help improve the quality of their presentations. Slide Executive can also be used as a digital asset management system for the small company since it handles all kinds of documents, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PDF, image files, movies and more.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Liber Rodriguez-Florez, PowerPoint, Slide Management