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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’s look at a typical corporate scenario. Your company has PowerPoint presentations that have to be burned on CDs and distributed. PowerPoint 2003 has an amazing Package to CD feature but how do you burn 15 presentations to a CD and provide a well designed interface to the recipients of the CD? Actually, it’s an easy task to accomplish. Just follow this step-by-step tutorial and you’ll have created an autorun CD with all your PowerPoint presentations in no time. The same procedure can be followed for a single presentation as well.
This tutorial covers PowerPoint 2003 Viewer and AutoPlay Media Studio 5.
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Tagged as: AutoPlay, IndigoRose, PowerPoint
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Kurt Dupont is based in Belgium and heads Take-off, which creates the DataPoint add-in for PowerPoint that allows presentations to interface with databases of all sorts including those in text and Excel files.
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Tagged as: Add-in, DataPoint, Interviews, Kurt Dupont, PresentationPoint
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Kurtis Scaletta has developed a Flash learning object template for Flash MX that facilitates conversion of PowerPoint slides to the Flash MX format. You will need access to PowerPoint and Flash MX software, and you will also need to possess rudimentary Flash skills.
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I first heard about Vic Ferri’s PowerPoint to EXE conversion service on a Yahoo Groups forum. Intrigued by the concept, I visited his site but never got around contacting him. There have always been questions on Microsoft’s PowerPoint newsgroups that ask about EXE conversion of PowerPoint presentations – something Microsoft has chosen to ignore probably since EXEs from PowerPoint could start a new bunch of computer viruses.
Fast forward two years and I was communicating with Vic about his concept, and it seemed good enough for an Indezine story.
Vic Ferri creates EXE files from PowerPoint presentations.
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It’s not surprising PowerPoint slideshows have become the norm for visuals in most business presentations. However, they can also spell disaster even for experienced presenters.
Dr. Joseph Sommerville discusses the sins of PowerPoint. Here are links to Part 1 and Part 2.
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