PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Working with Slide Numbers

Most of the time, slide numbers are not visible on the slide although many users like to enable them. To do so, choose the View | Header and Footer option, and within the resultant dialog box, make sure that the Slide number option is checked.

Learn how to add Slide Numbers on slides and Masters in PowerPoint 2003 and 2002 for Windows.

Filed Under: Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003, Tutorials

Animated Photo Album

While PowerPoint includes a very capable Photo Album feature that lets you quickly insert multiple photos in a presentation, you still need to add the animations yourself. Also, there’s no navigation between viewing pictures and slides. Our review product is a PowerPoint add-in that simplifies the process of inserting pictures with animation and navigation.

Read the Indezine review of Animated Photo Album.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Review

Visual Aids for Better Presentations

Besides good public speaking skills, visual aids are key to keeping your audience interested. This can include PowerPoint if you make it an accessory instead of a crutch to your speech. Fellow financial advisors share their eye-catching accessories below.

Vanessa Richardson tells more on OnWallStreet.

Filed Under: Companion Programs
Tagged as: Companion Programs, Delivery, PowerPoint

Articulate Quizmaker: Conversation with Gabe Anderson

     Gabe Anderson takes care of support and community initiatives at Articulate, a provider of rich media products used for e-learning.

In this conversation, Gabe discusses Articulate Quizmaker, how you can create quizzes, and how Quizmaker integrates with Articulate’s other products.

Geetesh: Tell us more about Articulate Quizmaker — and how it makes it easy to create quizzes fast.

Gabe: Articulate Quizmaker 2.0 is a comprehensive yet easy-to-use quiz creator for making highly customized Flash-based quizzes, assessments, and surveys without the need for difficult programming. It provides a form-based interface with one-click publishing to Flash so that anyone who can use PowerPoint can create attractive, Flash-based quizzes in no time — no Flash development experience required. There are 21 different graded and survey question types, which can be published to a stand-alone quiz or survey for use in your own Learning Management System or Articulate Online — with full tracking and reporting capabilities.

Geetesh: How does Articulate Quizmaker integrate with other Articulate programs?

Gabe: Quizmaker publishes seamlessly to Articulate Presenter so that you can embed your quizzes and surveys directly in your Presenter-powered courses. You can even choose to send the embedded quiz results directly to your own Learning Management System or Articulate Online. Publishing from Quizmaker to Articulate Online is simple – just plug in your account details once, then publish to your account in just one click.

You can see a demo of how easy it is to publish content from Quizmaker to Articulate Online in the tutorials section of our site. Look for the demo called Publishing from Quizmaker.

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: Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash

Wildform Flair: The Indezine Review

There are many advantages in converting a PowerPoint presentation into a Flash SWF movie since they tend to be smaller in size, cannot be edited, and can easily be viewed in almost any operating system or computer these days. And with dozens of PowerPoint-Flash converting applications available, it’s easy to be spoilt for choice.

And with so many choices, every such application has to either do things better than others or add more capabilities. WildPresenter, the product we are reviewing, tries to do both—and in this review, we will explore if it succeeds or not.

Read the Indezine review of Wildform Flair.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash, Wildform