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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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Tagged as: Add-in, James Gordon, Mac OS, PowerPoint, Printing
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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 The days of construction paper and poster board projects have been replaced by computer-generated images and laser pointers.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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Tagged as: Case Studies, Education, PowerPoint, School
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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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As President of Grass Roots Software, Lou Dooros‘ primary role is in securing partnerships to advance the use of Grass Roots Software technology in a broad range of vertical markets and business to business solutions. Grass Roots Software creates Freepath, a new tool that creates presentation playlists from PowerPoint presentations, and several other document and media file formats.
In this interview, Lou discusses Freepath, PowerPoint, and non-linear presentations.
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Tagged as: Freepath, Interviews, Lou Douros, PowerPoint
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This book extract is from Beyond Bullet Points, a book that teaches how you can use PowerPoint to tell visual stories without using bullet points. Author Cliff Atkinson uses his three-step approach to help readers discover how they can combine the tenets of classic storytelling with the power of projected media to create a rich, engaging experience.
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Tagged as: Books, Cliff Atkinson, PowerPoint
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