PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

First Tennessee Bank uses Take-off DataPoint

Here is another case study that explores the use of DataPoint. This time, it’s the First Tennessee Bank.

The Asset Quality and Disposition Division is responsible for the quality of our assets (loans) and reporting this to management. To achieve this goal we use several Microsoft Access databases to gather, organize, sort, summarize, and generate reports and presentations. In the past, we would export data to Microsoft Excel and then link to our Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. Now with Take-off’s DataPoint software, we are able to skip the middle step of using Microsoft Excel, saving us a lot of time and completely automated. We are currently generating some 8 presentations a month and plan to migrate more of our reports and presentations.

For more info, read this case-study.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Case Studies, DataPoint, PresentationPoint

Creating PowerPoint Backgrounds without Photoshop

Backgrounds are an important part of the look and feel of any presentation, but not everyone owns or knows Photoshop, the high-end software of choice for most professional designers. However, several techniques allow you to use PowerPoint or other easily available programs to create backgrounds on your own.

Ellen Finkelstein teaches you more.

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Tagged as: Background, Ellen Finkelstein, Photoshop, PowerPoint

Take-Off Releases DataPoint

Take-off DataPoint can link Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to various data sources. You can display a presentation that is continuously updated during the show without changing the layout of the presentation. You can display text, numbers, images, graphs etc.

In this post, the Digital Producer site adds more: Take-off DataPoint is a revolution as it is the first program that offers this functionality for Microsoft PowerPoint. This feature can be used to inform your audience with live data. You can welcome visitors at your company, give directions etc. Or inform personnel about production milestones versus the current status. Or display news headlines, weather, currency exchange rates, upcoming events, sport results and much more.

Read more on the Digital Producer site.

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Tagged as: Add-in, DataPoint, PresentationPoint

Using Photographs in PowerPoint

PowerPoint is all about presenting to audiences. More often than not, people tend to use words rather than visuals. Using visual content such as photographs can convey so much more. In this article, we’ll look at ways to optimize your photo content before and after inserting them into PowerPoint. Among other things, we’ll also look at some photo effects you can create within PowerPoint itself.

Read more here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Photos, Pictures, PowerPoint

Double Monitor Display

Many of us already use Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 on our laptop or desktop PC. There is a very powerful feature available which most users simply are not aware about. This feature allows you to use two different displays on your PC.

Learn more about dual monitor displays on the Express Computer site.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Techniques