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The linear presentation approach has gone fundamentally unchallenged until recent years when something changed. It wasn’t the presenters (they actually liked the straight-forward simplicity) and it wasn’t really the software. It was certain audience types and we had better pay attention.
Jim Endicott challenged a long-standing norm and offer a simple solution.
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Tommy Powell of Neuxpower says that NXPowerLite version 3.5 has just been released.
NXPowerLite 3.5 adds support for Microsoft’s Open XML (Office 2007) file formats and offers improved Outlook integration. It is also now available in Chinese. In addition, NXPowerLite 3.5 is available as a free upgrade to existing NXPowerLite 3 users.
Download a free trial version of NXPowerLite here.
For those who are not aware, NXPowerLite is a file optimization program for Microsoft Office file formats.
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Leaders of Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit are spending the day showing Macworld Expo attendees the new Office 2008 for Mac applications.
Marcus Aiu, lead program manager of PowerPoint for Mac, is showing many new features in the presentation program. He earned applause, for example, when he demonstrated the ability to use Apple’s remote control to page through slides.
Todd Bishop discusses more on the Seattle P-I site.
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If you create your share of PowerPoint presentations, you know that you end up doing repetitive tasks all the time — for the most common commands such as aligning, distributing, grouping, or resizing objects, you have to access the menus and toolbars hundreds of times.
PowerPoint ShortcutTools 2.0, the product we’re reviewing is a PowerPoint add-in which allows users to set defined keyboard shortcuts for specific PowerPoint commands.
Read the Indezine review of ShortcutTools 2.0.
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Jim Endicott is a nationally-recognized consultant, designer, speaker specializing in professional presentation messaging, design, and delivery. In this interview, Jim discusses the implications of changes in this decade, the influence of technology, the sophistication of the marketplace, and the utilization of potential.
In this interview, Jim talks about changes in the world of presentations over the last five years.
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