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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Take a look at how PowerPoint MVP Glenna Shaw created the amazing Cinderella project (look under Just for Fun and Other Things). On the page, you’ll also find tons of other stuff.
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Tagged as: Glenna Shaw, PowerPoint, Resources
Whether you’re pitching an idea to the boss or teaching geography to a class of fifth-graders, you can’t beat an electronic slideshow. PowerPoint 2004 lets you turn text, graphics, sounds, and movies into dazzling presentations that get your message across in high style. But what if you’re on a short deadline? Relax, and I’ll show you ten ways to use PowerPoint to put together slideshows that’ll convince your audience that you spent days sweating over your mouse and keyboard.
Learn more with Franklin Tessler, author of Office 2004 for Mac: The Missing Manual
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PowerPoint 2004
Tagged as: Books, PowerPoint 2004, Tips
Microsoft said Thursday that it will introduce new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications when the company launches its Office 12 software package next year. Company officials said the move to replace Microsoft’s traditional binary file formats with open-standards-based XML versions will allow companies using Office 12 to more easily access data across XML’s various applications.
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Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, OpenXML, XML
Apple has released Keynote 2.0.2, a maintenance update to its PowerPoint-compatible presentation software (part of the iWork suite). The new release eliminates a potential vulnerability where maliciously modified Keynote presentation could be constructed to retrieve files from the local system.
Read more on the MacFixIt site.
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Keynote
Tagged as: Apple Mac OS X, Keynote
For most of their 20 years, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents have had free rein within corporate walls. But with the advent of federal record-keeping regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which impose strict rules on how companies manage and archive information, those freewheeling days are nearly at an end.
Learn how Microsoft is coping with this change.
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Thoughts
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, Opinion
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