PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

The Ray Larabie Interview

Thursday, March 9, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:04 am

Ray Larabie became interested in fonts in the early 70’s when his grandmother gave him sheets of Letraset. He became so familiar with typefaces that, by the time he was 17, he could identify hundreds of fonts by name. Ray now heads Larabie Fonts and Typodermic.

In this interview, Ray discusses font usage in PowerPoint.

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OutlookPoint – Project Your Email Now!

Wednesday, March 1, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:48 am

Kurt Dupont from PresentationPoint is a man of ideas. It is always interesting to see what he is going to do next. The wait is over, and Kurt’s new product is OutlookPoint, an add-in for Outlook that copies email messages, appointments, tasks, contact persons, and notes to a database. Then you can use their DataPoint product to display this info inside PowerPoint.

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Compressed XML based files formats in Microsoft Office 2007

Tuesday, February 28, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:47 am

Office 2007 XML formats use compression technologies so files tend to take up much less disk space. Internal data storage of the Office XML Formats is segmented into discreet components—for example, embedded code is stored separately from the document content inside the file. Each component within a single file is compressed using ZIP compression technology. In addition to the compression of each document segment, the entire document is also compressed using ZIP compression. As a result, the sizes of Microsoft Office Word documents, Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations are reduced. The amount of compression and size savings varies per file.

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Create a PowerPoint Timer

Monday, February 27, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 5:04 am

Ellen Finkelstein, author of How to Do Everything with PowerPoint 2003 shows you how you can create an effective PowerPoint timer that is just perfect if you want to get your audience to settle down before you start or for breaks. The timer requires no coding and can be created in a few minutes. If you don’t want to do that, you can even download Ellen’s finished presentation.

Office 2007 Release Date Speculation

Thursday, February 23, 2006, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 1:14 am

When will Microsoft Office 2007 development be completed? Great question. Microsoft was said to be shooting for August, but BusinessWeek has reported that the product will be completed later, possibly in September or October. Ed Bott, the author of several Microsoft Office and Windows books, is also predicting that Office 2007 development will finish in October. What are these predictions based on?