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The new versions of PowerPoint seem to have everything apart from the kitchen sink — but yet, it’s amazing to see vendors create small add-ins that provide an impressive capability that PowerPoint lacks.
Opazity is one such add-in that creates opaque effects inside PowerPoint — and if you are wondering what’s so great about an opaque effect in PowerPoint, then read on.
Read the Indezine review of Opazity.
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Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint
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Google Presentations (Google Slides), a component of Google Docs has added new features. The most significant new option is the ability to create embeddable web slideshows that can be put up on any page, much like a YouTube movie.
The web output uses scripting rather than Flash, which is unlike YouTube. So, it will be interesting to see how Google copes up with animations and transitions in its Presentations through this web output option. Maybe that’s something they will take care of in the future since they don’t have animations and transitions available as of now in Google Presentations.
You can learn more on the Webware site. Search Engine Land also explores these new presentation features.
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Tagged as: Google, Google Slides, Online Presentations
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Ric Bretschneider is Senior Program Manager for PowerPoint at Microsoft, and he just had his 15th anniversary working on the project! Ric’s put up a great podcast on the new Presentations Roundtable site. This podcast is just first of the many more podcasts you can look forward to hearing and downloading from this site.
The premiere episode of the Presentations Roundtable podcast brings together:
Their discussion is in an easy conversation style. The role of books in learning good design is investigated, along with some easy to follow hints on creating excellence in your own presentations.
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Tagged as: Books, Case Studies, Garr Reynolds, Howard Cooperstein, Nancy Duarte, Opinion, PowerPoint, Ric Bretschneider
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The release of Office:mac 2008 is less than two weeks away, and already there’s plenty of coverage on the product:
Stephen H. Wildstrom on BusinessWeek.com does not believe that “Office 2008 will cause many people to switch from Windows to Macs, though there are plenty of other reasons to do so. But it does give Mac users—especially creative professionals, students, and home users who are the core of Apple’s market—an office suite that’s superior to the Windows version in many ways”.
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Get ready to add punch and pizzazz to your presentations and wow your audience using the latest PowerPoint techniques. This friendly book/CD-ROM combo covers all of the new features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, including interface changes, presentation themes, multimedia, the Slide Library, and more.
Read an exclusive book excerpt from Cutting Edge PowerPoint 2007 for Dummies.
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