Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Microsoft is readying at least two new products aimed at professional designers as part of an aggressive push into the graphics software market. On Monday, the company is expected to release a second test version of a program code-named Acrylic that’s aimed at allowing designers to easily create art for Web pages. Microsoft released an initial prerelease version of the Acrylic software in June. Microsoft is also working on a separate graphics product, which was recently described by server and tools chief Eric Rudder during a presentation at a company meeting for financial analysts.
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: Graphics, Microsoft, Microsoft Expression
This presentation contains is a simple multiplication table. There are two slides. One of them includes an animated multiplication table and the other one includes the same table without animation. The multiplication table has all tables until 12 x 12.
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Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Downloads, Mathematics, Presentation Samples
Glen Millar, PowerPoint MVP shows how you can do some amazingly simple 3D in PowerPoint with a little help from Perspector, a 3D add-in for PowerPoint from Visual Exemplars.
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Add-ins
Tagged as: 3D, Glen Millar, Perspector
A system crash: If you’re lucky, it only ruins your day. More than likely, you’re in for several bad days followed by a few stressful weeks or months. After all, systems rarely fail only once. Rather, they keep crashing until you find the cause and fix the problem. This primer will show you how to solve problems quickly. Using a tool that costs nothing, you can solve approximately 50% of Windows server and workstation crashes in a few minutes.
Dirk A. D. Smith explains more on the Network World site.
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Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Troubleshooting
When people think of PowerPoint, they kind of sneer, smile and say, ‘That’s nice,’ said Katherine Horton, who, with her husband, William Horton is presenting at this week’s Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison.
But it has a lot of possibilities that many people have not explored.
Using plug-in tools such as Flash-based Articulate Presenter, Horton displays how a simple PowerPoint educational presentation can be enlivened with narration and interactivity, and that can add performance assessment abilities.
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Tagged as: Articulate, eLearning, Katherine Horton, PowerPoint, William Horton
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