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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rick Altman of PowerPoint Live has launched the PowerPoint Live Template Contest for this year’s event to be held from October 11 to 14 in Atlanta. Winners of the template contest will get a free trip to the fall event!
For those of you who want to see how the winning entries look like, head to this exclusive page we created last year that shows you all the winners over the years.
Also exclusive is this small conversation with Rick.
Geetesh: So the PowerPoint Live template contest enters its fifth year — I know you cannot say what you are looking for in a winner, but you could say what you are not looking for?
Rick: I can say both. We are looking for an intelligent and elegant design that will remain as attractive on Day 3 as it was on Day 1. We are not looking for something that shows off a person’s knowledge of PowerPoint features. That is the job of our presenters.
Geetesh: Tell us more about what the winner gets.
Rick: Free pass to the conference and round-trip airfare from any city in the United States that Delta Airlines flies to.
And who judges the entries? The entries are judged by a panel of conference regulars, including “yours truly”:
Ric Bretschneider is Senior Program Manager for PowerPoint at Microsoft and he celebrates many years as a Microsoft veteran, having joined the company in 1993 to work on PowerPoint for Windows and the Macintosh. Over the years, he’s contributed to the design and direction of the application and been awarded three PowerPoint-related patents.
Nancy Duarte has been a Principal of Duarte Design since 1990. Her firm is in the heart of Silicon Valley, and the client list is loaded with Fortune 500 companies. Her passion for business communications that are clear, meaningful, and attractive has opened doors for her in a business world full of cluttered and complex visual communications.
Julie Terberg develops custom presentation solutions—unique for every client and purpose as owner and principal designer at Terberg Design. She co-authored a book on crafting medical presentations. Julie also conducts training sessions for those who want to expand their skills, and is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for PowerPoint.
Geetesh Bajaj has been a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for PowerPoint since 9 years now, and is currently authoring his fifth book on the program. Based in India, Geetesh also runs the popular Indezine website.
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James Ontra, co-founder of PPTshare, has been developing presentation management solutions for over thirteen years. His company’s software products range from the high-end Ontra Presentation Management solution, known for its ability to play rich animations and video, to applications that enhance and help manage PowerPoint. In this conversation, James discusses the new PPTshuffle product.
Geetesh: James, please tell us about PPTshuffle, and what does it do?
James: Find the slide you need, when you need it. PPTshuffle is a browser-based PowerPoint slide library that lets you preview slides and then drag & drop them into another presentation. It’s a presentation management solution that helps companies with thousands of PowerPoint presentations manage and organize all of that content, so individuals can find the slide they need, quickly and easily. Companies can use it on their Intranet behind a firewall or use it online as an on-demand service.
Features include:
Geetesh: Who is the potential user of PPTshuffle, and what benefits will a user achieve from this product?
James: PPTshuffle is made for organizations that have hundreds, even thousands, of PowerPoint files that no one can seem to find.
It works on two levels.
First, for individual users, it is a library where a user can preview individual slides and then drag and drop them into a new presentation. They can do a keyword search for individual slides based on file name, title, speaker notes, and content, preview the slide, and then decide whether or not to drag & drop into a new presentation. Or they can click on a PowerPoint file and quickly preview all of the slides within that file. No more hunting and pecking through their e-mail, networks, and hard drive looking for the great pie chart or latest sales figures. It saves hours of time preparing presentations.
Second, for managers and administrators, PPTshuffle serves as a repository of approved presentations and manages access through user groups. Therefore, it ensures that everyone in the organization has the most up-to-date, branded, and compliant presentations.
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