This is the print version of this page. All content is copyright Indezine.com 2000-2026.
Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
See Also:
PowerPoint and Presenting Notes
PowerPoint and Presenting Glossary
Jeff Van West puts his get-the-job-done philosophy into practice in training movies on Effective Presentations which is available online from Lynda.com. Other movies cover Home and Small Office Networking and Illustrator CS2. He is also the author of several books, articles, and custom training curricula for software, hardware, and aircraft systems.
In this interview, Jeff discusses PowerPoint experiences, design and improvement ideas.
Filed Under:
Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, PowerPoint
Comments Off on The Jeff Van West Interview
T-Mobile now makes it possible for its subscribers to leave their laptops behind them for presentations by making available to them Impatica ShowMate, the first and only presentation solution that allows users to project PowerPoint presentations directly from their BlackBerry wireless devices. ShowMate is a pocket-sized hardware device weighing less than nine ounces and supports all PowerPoint presentation features including rich text, images, charts, graphs, animations and slide transition effects.
Filed Under:
Hardware
Tagged as: BlackBerry, PowerPoint, Projector
Comments Off on T-Mobile Offers Impatica ShowMate for BlackBerry
Microsoft has quietly added a high-end retail edition of Office 2007 to the suite’s stable, the company confirmed Thursday.
The new Office Ultimate — the name identical to Vista’s Ultimate edition — will be priced at $679 in retail channels, and will include all the applications scheduled to ship within Office Enterprise 2007, the top-end corporation version to be available only to volume license customers.
Ultimate will include core applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, but will also offer Access, Publisher, InfoPath, Groove, OneNote, and integrated functions such as content management, electronic forms, and rights management. All of those pieces are also in the Enterprise bundle.
Read more on the InformationWeek site.
Filed Under:
PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, Office 2007, PowerPoint 2007
Comments Off on Microsoft Adds ‘Ultimate’ Office To Lineup
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.
Filed Under:
Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Austin Myers, Media, Multimedia, PowerPoint
Comments Off on PFCExpress: Email your PowerPoints Easily
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.
Filed Under:
PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, Office 2007, PowerPoint 2007
Comments Off on Office 2007 Beta 2 Released
Microsoft and the Office logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.