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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Let us look at the profile of a typical PowerPoint user. He or she creates presentations from templates contained within PowerPoint or downloads some from the many sites online. They insert pictures and create charts. Most of them also copy and paste content from other applications into PowerPoint slides. What is the result? Often, it is a fifteen slide presentation that has ballooned to the ungainly size of 15 mb or more.
That’s when a product like PowerShrink can help.
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Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Compression, Review
Troy Stein is Camtasia Studio product manager at TechSmith Corporation in Okemos, Michigan. He has over a decade of experience in technology services and product management and has worked with start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, and small businesses.
In this interview, Troy discusses Camtasia, his role at TechSmith, PowerPoint and more.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Camtasia, Interviews, PowerPoint, Techsmith, Troy Stein
Many users including translators, authors, writers and transcriptionists need to count the number of words in a document. While Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint do offer some features to do the count, the end results are nowhere close to professional. So, what is the solution?
One option is to use Practiline Software’s PractiCount Toolbar.
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Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, PractiCount, Review
Most people have a love-hate relationship with PowerPoint. The software is used in a nearly unlimited variety of situations, from boardrooms to classrooms, and for better or worse, it is the de facto standard for presentations. Usually, PowerPoint presentations are dry affairs with someone in a suit trying hard not to vocalize the exact same information that appears on their slides. But what if a group of artists got hold of the software and competed with each other to see who could use it most imaginatively?
Read more on the Wired News site
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Tagged as: Case Studies, Death by PowerPoint, Opinion, PowerPoint
Do you know how to do a PowerPoint presentation? In a few years, every 9-year-old at Lamprey River Elementary School may. A group of 23 fourth-grade students is using PowerPoint software to spice up its research-based New Hampshire Booklet project. The assignment requires the students to give a presentation on facts about their home state.
Adam Leech adds, A half-dozen Raymond High School volunteer students visit the elementary school students once a week to teach them how to use the software and prepare a presentation. PowerPoint allows for moving text animation, pictures, graphics, and sounds.
Image: StockUnlimited
More on the Rockingham News site.
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Tagged as: Case Studies, Education, School
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