Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Peter McClard of CaptureWorks informed me about the release of version 1.1 of PointCapture that adds a great new interface that includes drop-down menu choices to make more interactive searches. PointCapture allows you to search a specific PowerPoint presentation or slide buried in your computer folders, using powerful data and text filtering and search tools.
Read the Indezine review of PointCapture.
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Corel announced that the new version of CorelDRAW publishes designs for use in your office productivity suite to enhance text documents by adding graphics published directly from CorelDRAW Graphics Suite to Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office. Their press release says, “When you create graphics in CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12, you never have to worry about Microsoft Office or WordPerfect Office compatibility. CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 is a perfect companion to these office suites, making it possible to easily preview and import graphics files into text documents, slide presentations and spreadsheets without needing to worry about file format compatibility. This gives businesses the assurance that their graphics can be incorporated quickly and seamlessly into all business collateral. In effect, CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12 is an entire creative design agency in a box; businesses can now produce their own business and marketing collateral, and can easily create animated graphics for use in presentations and Web sites. The suite also offers improved file compatibility, allowing users to open and save more than 100 file formats, including Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, EPS, PDF and more.”
Note: The link on Corel’s site with more info no longer works, and has been removed.
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Registration for PowerPoint Live, an industry conference about PowerPoint and presentation skills is now open. Find more about this event that’s going to be held at San Diego from October 10 to 13, 2004 at the new look PowerPoint Live 2004 site.
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Just received a mail from the folks at Neuxpower with the good news that their NXPowerLite product is now PowerPoint 2003 compatible. The new 1.53 version is available as a free upgrade for existing customers. For those of who don’t know, NXPowerLite optimizes file sizes of PowerPoint presentations.
Learn more on the NXPowerLite site.
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Echo Swinford‘s PowerPoint Autorun CD for versions PowerPoint 97 through 2003 is now mirrored at Indezine.
Look here. Also, you can extend this technique further and create an EXE from the packaged presentation. Look here for further instructions.
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Tagged as: Autorun, Echo Swinford, PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003
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