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Your presentations always influence others to take some kind of action. The action might be to listen carefully and learn new information or it might be to drift off toward Dreamworld. The way in which your presentation delivers information has everything to do with how well it will be received. Here are some quick ideas for livening up your presentations to keep the after-lunch crowd awake in their seats.
Katherine Murray tells you more on TechRepublic.
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We have reviewed PowerShrink in the past—so in this review, we will look at the new features that PowerShrink 2007 (aka PowerShrink 3) offers along with a brief walkthrough.
PowerShrink 2007 is a PowerPoint, Word, and Excel compression product from TopByteLabs Computing, a software company based in Germany.
Read the Indezine review of PowerShrink 2007.
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Under the name Sun ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office, Sun has released its import/export filter for the OpenDocument format (ODF), which the ISO has recognized as a standard, for versions 2000, XP, and 2003 of Microsoft’s Office suite; the plug-in can be downloaded via our software repository. The extension allows users of MS Office to read and create text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in the free OpenOffice suite and its commercial version called StarOffice.
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Microsoft’s hugely profitable Office software is about to get a more rounded competitor from nemesis Google.
The search giant, via a series of acquisitions and some internal development, looks like it will soon have the technology to challenge Office’s dominance with its own suite of applications that run over the internet.
Read more on the Guardian site.
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There’s so much you can do with PowerPoint these days, and showcasing your best PowerPoint moment is the concept behind a new contest at iFilm. Microsoft is sponsoring prizes worth $10,000 for the contest, and results are less than a day away!
There are some amazing entries. We’re surprised that there is so much of a difference in both the quality and concept of the entries. Of all the entries, some of them do juggle the balance between concept and quality so well and showcase the capabilities of the new PowerPoint 2007.
Check them for yourself and vote!
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