PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Book Extract of Camtasia Studio 3: The Definitive Guide

This book extract from Camtasia Studio 3: The Definitive Guide is an Indezine exclusive with permission from Wordware Publishing Inc.

The excerpts chosen to be published on Indezine show you how you can use the PowerPoint add-in in Camtasia.

Read the excerpts here.

Filed Under: Books
Tagged as: Books, Camtasia, PowerPoint, Techsmith

Documents To Go for UIQ 3

Documents To Go, the office suite software, is now available for UIQ 3 phones such as the Sony Ericsson M600i, P990i and W950i. Documents To Go enables the viewing and editing of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on your phone. The software costs $49.99, but current Documents To Go users on UIQ 2 devices can upgrade to Documents To Go for UIQ 3 free of charge.

Read more on the All About Symbian site.

Filed Under: Companion Programs
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, PDA, PowerPoint

Rhapzode PowerPoint Compiler

So, what if you look at a product that provides the option to share your PowerPoints securely. And then, what if that product adds Flash and PDF output as well to the feature list? You’ll end up with something that provides value to almost anyone. That’s exactly what Rhapzode, the product we are reviewing does.

Read the full review here.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint

Support for ODF Is Step in the Right Direction

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced its support for an open-source project to create a translator plug-in for its Office applications that, eventually, will enable Word, Excel and PowerPoint users to read and write word processor, spreadsheet and presentation files saved in the rival OpenDocument for Office Applications format. The key word here is eventually.

Jason Brooks discusses more on the eWeek site.

Filed Under: Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, ODF, PowerPoint

Flash Toolbar: Conversation with Colin McBride

Colin McBride is from in-shop, a UK-based company that creates Flash Toolbar, a Flash-related add-in for PowerPoint. Colin says he has a passion for doing things right, and he always thinks of the words spoken by JFK we chose to go because it is difficult.

When asked for a photo for this conversation, Colin sent an image of his trip to Tibet rather than a conventional headshot. As he said, this sums him more.

Colin in Tibet

Geetesh: Tell us more about in-shop and your custom PowerPoint solutions.

Colin: The in-shop has been set up to create user-friendly software which is both professionally developed and reasonably priced. We have begun with a range of software add-ins for Microsoft PowerPoint. Later, we plan to extend this range to include other software utilities. We have used our experience working with some of the world’s leading companies, our typical corporate client has anywhere between 25,000 to 150,000 employees spread across the globe, and from this work we have developed rigorously tested, secure and user-friendly software solutions. This makes our software the ideal choice for both individuals and corporations.

The Flash Toolbar is a good example of this, it has always been time consuming and difficult to do simple things with a Flash movie in PowerPoint, e.g. insert a Flash movie, change the play setting, change the background color of Flash movies etc. But why? We felt that it does not need to be this difficult, so we decided to create an easy-to-use solution directly within the PowerPoint program.

Geetesh: Tell us more about Flash Toolbar — particularly the export static slides feature. How did that come about and how can it help?

Colin: The Flash Toolbar is a professionally produced tool that allows you to work more easily with Flash movies within PowerPoint presentations. It has been designed both for individual use and/or corporate use, once installed it displays a toolbar with a range of easy-to-use tools, and with a single-click you can insert a Flash movie or change its settings. In addition, it automatically fixes the problems commonly know as flashback, which is when Flash movies do not automatically rewind.

Flash Toolbar

A key tool for many users, especially business users is the Create Static Image Slide tool. Many sales and business presentations use Flash movies to show their products and services within a PowerPoint presentation, this gives a real wow factor. However, without our solution when using Flash movies in PowerPoint they are left with the problem of not being able to print the scenes or stills from the Flash movie, or, they cannot e-mail the presentation (this can be for a range of reasons, e.g. size, email server security, they don’t know if their client uses Flash etc.)

The Create Static Image Slide tool on the Flash Toolbar resolves these problems/issues by making it simple for the user to change Flash movies used in PowerPoint into a series of static images. Our tool creates a range of new slides, where each slide is a duplicate of the original slide, and the Flash movie is replaced with a still or frame from the Flash movie which are JPEG images.

So, for example, if you have a PowerPoint presentation which uses a Flash movie to show The six steps of a new wonder product, our tool allows you to select the Flash movie and with a single click create six new slides, each showing a scene or still from the Flash movie.

You can learn more about Flash Toolbar in Indezine’s full review of the product.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Colin McBride, Interviews, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash