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Google’s Gmail email service now allows you to preview the PowerPoint slides you receive as an attachment without downloading them at all. This option, which was available to a few Gmail users is now rolled out for all users.
When you receive a PowerPoint presentation as an attachment, you can click the new View as SlideShow option to preview the presentation from slide to slide. This option only works with PPT files, not the new PPTX files created by PowerPoint 2007.
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Carmine Gallo is a communications coach for the world’s most admired brands. His client list includes Intel, Chase, Barclays, IBM, Nokia, and many others. He is an Emmy award-winning journalist and former anchor, host, and business correspondent for CNN, Fox, CNET, and CBS. Gallo writes a bi-weekly column on the subject of business communications for Businessweek and he is the author of two books aimed at business professionals who want to become better speakers and presenters.
In this interview, Carmine discusses his work, his books, and PowerPoint-specific communication skills.
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This exclusive book extract from Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 on Demand is presented here with permission from Pearson Education.
The book, authored by Steve Johnson is in full color, and explains common PowerPoint procedures using a series of numbered steps with tons of screenshots that are captioned.
Read an exclusive book excerpt from Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 for Windows on Demand.
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Terry Irwin is a consultant surgeon in Belfast, Northern Ireland working for the National Health Service (NHS). Terry is also a long-time PowerPoint user and co-author of a book on PowerPoint geared towards the designing of medical presentations.
In this interview, Terry discusses the use of PowerPoint in medicine, and his book.
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Mike Pearce says the best history teachers in today’s schools will tell stories, make students relate to the people and events and use technology in order to do both. Starting in 2001, when he was teaching eighth grade, Pearce began integrating his own lesson plans into a PowerPoint system. “It hits every learning style. We live in an electronic age and kids are now very impressed by instruction that is more contemporary,” he said.
Read more on the Killeen Daily Herald site.
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