PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Photosynthesis PowerPoint Presentation

This is a simple educational presentation on Photosynthesis that we developed in our office as a fun project. You can download here.

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Product Development Timeline

Creating a product-development timeline in PowerPoint is well worth the effort. What exactly is a product development timeline? Simply put, it visually portrays the development process of a product from concept to release.

Learn more and download a members-only presentation.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

PowerPoint 2007: Nacho WordArt

Howard Cooperstein is Program Manager for PowerPoint at Microsoft. He along with other Program Managers, Ric Bretschneider and Mark Jaremkohave has put up the new PowerPoint and OfficeArt blog at the MSDN site. Unlike other MSDN blogs, this one has nothing to do with programming. In fact, this one is filled with splashes of color and design!

Howard’s newest post shows how you can create a distinctive 3D title using the new WordArt engine in PowerPoint, almost like a movie title! Check it out here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Howard Cooperstein, Office 2007, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2007, WordArt

PowerPoint 2007: PowerPoint Sees Welcome Changes

Easily the most used presentation development tool on the planet, Microsoft PowerPoint hasn’t seen a significant upgrade to its functionality or its basic engine since the Office 2000 version. But with Office 2007 Beta 2 now fully underway, the company’s senior product manager for the Professional Plus suite, Mark Alexieff, showed off the completely rewritten graphics engine for PowerPoint 2007, along with its much-anticipated ribbon control, in a demonstration for TechEd last Friday.

Read more on the TGGDaily site.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2007

S5 and PowerPoint: A Replacement or a Distribution Route?

It’s happening again. Self-proclaimed soothsayers are predicting the beginning of the end of Microsoft PowerPoint. Frankly, we have lost count of how many times this has happened before. To give due credit, I quite like S5, the new set of simple standards that is built on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Yes, S5 is the new competition.

So, what’s different this time? And how is S5 better? Frankly, S5 still leaves many questions unanswered and for anyone who has seen the look and polish of PowerPoint 2007, it really is premature to compare S5 with PowerPoint.

But let us not discount S5. It has its advantages. About disadvantages, it’s not too easy to create S5 presentations for ordinary folks although some people might tell you that S5 is so easy; all you need to do is edit simple XHTML files!

Yes, S5 has its advantages. For simple presentations, S5 has a much better output than PowerPoint’s own HTML output that is bloated and slow over not-so-fast internet connections. So, what if someone created a S5 output add-in for PowerPoint? That would be the best use of both technologies!

Here are some links to get you started with S5:

• A Basic Primer in Using S5
• S5easy.com — create easy slideshows/presentations online
• Presentacular adds script.aculo.us visual effects to slide shows created with S5

Filed Under: Companion Programs
Tagged as: Online Presentations, PowerPoint Alternatives, S5