PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PractiCount Toolbar

Tuesday, December 14, 2004, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:30 am

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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PowerPoint Message is the Medium

Sunday, December 12, 2004, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:30 am

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?

Fourth-Grade Students Learn PowerPoint

Saturday, December 11, 2004, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:30 am

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.

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Graphicae

Friday, December 10, 2004, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:30 am

Most PowerPoint add-ins bring additional features into PowerPoint – these features range from multimedia to transitions and output and design. Graphicae is different – it brings a whole new organizational structure into your PowerPoint creation workflow. Graphicae is from Proof Software LLC, a company based in Canton, MA, United States. The company was founded by graduates of the Harvard Business School who have experience in management consulting, private equity and corporate management.

Keeping the Power in Your PowerPoint

Wednesday, December 8, 2004, posted by Geetesh Bajaj at 9:30 am

Most common missteps in sermon PowerPoint presentations? That’s hard to answer, said Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP in PowerPoint, consultant and author of On PowerPoint.

There are so many. I would say the biggest ones are not planning, not practicing, and not learning the tool.