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Austin Myers, a PowerPoint MVP is a good friend, and he created the wonderful PFCMedia add-in for PowerPoint that makes inserting media files in PowerPoint so easy. And now he has released PFCExpress, his new PowerPoint add-in that makes it so simple for you to email your PowerPoints. The add-in takes care of everything–from links, to file format, attachments, and the actual mailing.
Here’s a small interview with Austin, where he discusses PFCExpress.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Austin Myers, Media, Multimedia, PowerPoint
Here are some stories in the media that cover the release of Office 2007 Beta 2:
PowerPoint is the ubiquitous tool business people and students use to create multimedia presentations. The 2007 updates are supposed to make it less of a hassle to dress up slide shows. Most of PowerPoint’s features are available as icons in a tabbed ribbon atop the interface. And dynamic, visual galleries let you see a change before finalizing it.
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PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, Office 2007, PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft MVP Jim Gordon has announced his new grayscale printing add-in for PowerPoint that works with both Windows and Mac versions of PowerPoint.
This is what Jim says about his add-in:
Sending grayscale output to printers can significantly reduce printing times for black and white laser printers. Some color objects don’t display or print as expected in grayscale. GrayScaleTool has grayscale controls for adjusting grayscale properties readily available. The add-in may benefit large organizations that share networked laser printers. GrayScaleTool is for people who often print GrayScale (saves on color ink), or who want to do special effects with grayscale printing.
Check out this site for more info.
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Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, James Gordon, Mac OS, PowerPoint, Printing
Shuttling between the Internet and his computer slide show, Manuel Duarte put the finishing touches on his research project. He outlined his main findings in bullet points, and dragged images and audio files from the Web to liven things up. Duarte wasn’t polishing his PowerPoint presentation for a boardroom sales pitch; it was for his fourth-grade class in Brockton. PowerPoint — once the staple of business conferences and corporate meetings — is lending a high-tech edge to grade-school classrooms across the state. The days of construction paper and poster board projects have been replaced by computer-generated images and laser pointers.
Read more on the Boston Globe site.
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Thoughts
Tagged as: Case Studies, Education, PowerPoint, School
This is actually the same review that we posted on Amazon. Just wanted to let you know since we don’t have a star rating system on this blog!
If I had gone strictly with the title of the book, I might have not given this one 5 stars at all. It’s not about creating workflows between Adobe applications and doing projects. More than that, this book is about experiences from the authors about how one can do small tasks more efficiently by using the CS2 applications together. Think of this as a book that’s left next to your desk that you can pick up and read when you have 5 minutes to spare. That’s the way this book will benefit. So if you think that the term “workflow’ in the title means that you’re going to do great things, then you got it all wrong. This book is about those little things that make great differences.
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