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Just uploaded US Elections badges in PNG format — copy to your other PowerPoint slides as required!
Download a sample presentation containing US Elections’ badges.
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This book extract is from PowerPoint 2007: Complete Makeover Kit by Geetesh Bajaj and Echo Swinford. This book is not as much about reading as it is about seeing and doing! That’s why it’s called a kit. Full-color pages show you exactly how your slides will look as you follow the makeover steps, and all presentations in various stages of the makeover are on the accompanying CD.
Read an exclusive book excerpt from PowerPoint 2007 for Windows: Complete Makeover Kit.
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This tutorial shows you how you can create a full slide puzzle effect in PowerPoint. Although we use PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 in this tutorial, the basic technique works the same way all the way back to PowerPoint 97.
Learn how to create puzzle pictures from jigsaw shapes in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 for Windows.
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George McCaskill was a founding investor in Perspector and currently enjoys the role of Chief Technology Officer. George is responsible for product strategy and development. He earned his startup stripes by joining QSS in 1993 where he was one of two developers building the market leading requirements management tool DOORS.
Geetesh: Tell us more about the new features in Perspector 4.0.
George: The major new feature in Perspector 4.0 is 3D lists. You can convert from the bullet lists in your existing PowerPoint presentation into 3D list images, or you can start from scratch with our library of list images and fully featured 3D list editor. This presents PowerPoint users with a first easy step in the journey of breaking free from bullet point paralysis towards acquiring a much more visual style.
Perspector 4.0 now uses the presentation color scheme to give your images colors that match the rest of your presentation. This is a real time-saver compared with earlier versions of Perspector.
Professional Edition users can now add their own Perspector images to the Library so that they can save their 3D work for reuse in future presentations.
More information on Perspector 4.0 is available here.
Geetesh: Can you share some case studies on the use of Perspector?
George: Many Perspector customers are consultants and other communicators working with commercially sensitive information, so their presentations often cannot be shared with a wider audience, much as we would love to work with them on case studies. The other thing we have noticed from conversations with customers is that they like to keep Perspector as their ‘secret weapon’ that gives their presentations a distinctive edge when compared with their competitors’ (or even other colleagues’!).
Our website has some example presentations which have come from the Perspector community. Community resources and case studies are areas we are actively seeking to improve, so if any Perspector users are reading this – please consider sharing your work with us if that is possible!
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Just read this informative article and in-depth comparison that explores PowerPoint 2008’s improvements and limitations alongside Keynote 4.0’s design-centric approach, highlighting user interface tweaks, slide views, themes, transitions, and table/chart functionality—offering insights for presentation pros navigating Office for Mac and Apple’s iWork suite.
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