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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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The Microsoft Project Report Presentation Add-in for Microsoft Office Project 2003 helps a user to quickly and easily create a PowerPoint presentation from a Project file. The tool extracts task information from the Project file and populates a PowerPoint template with the user-selected information.
Download this add-in from the Microsoft site.
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: Add-in, Microsoft, Project
Daz Studio is a free 3D application that allows you to easily create rendered scenes. You can use this software to load in people, animals, vehicles, buildings, props, and accessories to create digital scenes. Here’s a guide that shows you how you can add a model, giving her hair and some clothes, and then change her pose and expression.
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: 3D, Companion
At last week’s DV Expo West in the Los Angeles Convention Center, Serious Magic showed their upcoming Ovation software which they claim will solve all of PowerPoint’s shortcomings. Not only will Ovation change any static PowerPoint presentation into a colorful and swirling 3D one, but it also has many features that help the speaker stay on course.
Read more on the TG Daily site.
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: Adobe, Ovation
James Theall is CEO of Media Marketing Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based software and service company that has recently launched SlideManager for PowerPoint. James remains obsessed with automating the model that shifts individuals creating their own presentations (PowerPoint’s original model) to the hub-and-spoke model that moves presentation building out into the field while maintaining knowledge, story points and design standards.
In this interview, James talks about slide management, SlideManager, and case studies.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Digital Asset Management, Interviews, James Theall, Presentation Management, SlideManager
When Microsoft says the next version of Office is its most important revision in over a decade, it’s not kidding. New XML-based default file formats and a major interface revision are intended to make the market-dominating productivity suite more flexible and accessible than ever … But lurking behind the scenes is a change that may ultimately prove even more significant than the interface makeover: Microsoft’s replacement of its current proprietary default file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt, and so on) with new compressed XML-based file formats, denoted by the addition of the letter x to the traditional file extensions.
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PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Office 2007, Opinion, PowerPoint 2007
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