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When the revamped suite hits the market in the second half of 2006, Office 12’s new UI will present commands from the perspective of users rather than software developers, reported Julie Larson-Green, Microsoft group program manager for the Office User Experience. Microsoft’s number-one goal was “to focus on what [users] want to do rather than on how they do it,” Larson-Green said in a recent online interview.
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PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Office 2007, PowerPoint 2007
Apple has released its new video-equipped iPod and I’ve already started receiving questions about creating PowerPoint presentation output that can work on these video iPods. There is no automated one-click solution yet, but Apple does have a tutorial for creating video content for the iPod.
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Miscellaneous
Tagged as: Apple, iPod, Video
Now, the word “community” is way-overused in our industry. But PowerPoint Live is such an intimate and friendly event that its sense of community is palpable. It has to be mainly the work of its host, Rick Altman, who also runs a Corel event. He extends a warm and sincere personal welcome to all who attend, present, or sponsor the show.
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Events
Tagged as: Presentation Summit, Tom Bunzel
Austin Myers, PowerPoint MVP shared information about this one. He said,
Ever had to figure out the RGB or Hex value for a color? Here is a great little tool that does it for you regardless of what application you are running. I highly recommend it for anyone wrestling with exact colors.
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: Austin Myers, Color, Companion
InsertPicture allows you to insert tons of pictures at one go into PowerPoint slides so that you can feed a whole folder of pictures to PowerPoint at one go – no more going to the Insert | Picture menus a hundred times!
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Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, James Gordon, Review
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