PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Office 2004 for Macintosh

Although Microsoft’s Office 2004 won’t be on store shelves until the middle of this year, here’s a sneak peek at its new features. And these additions — from a command center for related correspondence, calendars, and files, to an audio recorder that gives your typing fingers a rest made quite an impression. Come take a look at the next version of one of the most important program suites for the Mac.

Read more at the Macworld site.

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Tagged as: Microsoft Office, PowerPoint 2004

The Incredible, Accessible Presentation

In its purest sense, a presentation is the act of making information publicly available. Today, the world is the audience and electronic presentations are the delivery vehicle. A simple web search for “online presentations” lists over 6 million results. Technology has become the presenter and the presentation. With more than 17 million users worldwide, PowerPoint is the technology.

The appeal is easy to see. Thousands of dollars can be saved in travel costs. Your presentation, sales pitch, training course, etc. is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Almost anyone can create a presentation or training course. The downside is that everyone may not be able to access your presentation.

Read more with Glenna Shaw.

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Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Accessibility, Glenna Shaw, Presentation Skills

Cattle Annie’s Uses DataPoint

Cattle Annie’s Restaurant & Entertainment Club is one of Virginia’s premier music venues. Several years ago, Cattle Annie’s promotional team implemented PowerPoint slides broadcast through their closed circuit television system, including large screen projectors, to present upcoming entertainment and other promotional items. The project was successful at informing the guests, but keeping the slides up-to-date proved tedious and over time, the appearance of the slides deteriorated. Linking the club’s scheduling database to the slides seemed to be the solution.

Take-Off Software answered the call for a cost effective solution with DataPoint for PowerPoint. Read more.

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

Public Speaking for Entrepreneurs

This is a prerequisite for every speaker but it holds especially true for the first time. Practice your presentation as much as you can. By that I literally mean, give your presentation over and over again to a mirror, to your staff, to your spouse or your dog.

Learn more with LeeAundra Temescu.

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Tagged as: LeeAundra Temescu, Opinion, Public Speaking

Shape Console for PowerPoint

Shyam Pillai announced the Shape Console add-in, that displays a miniature floating window within PowerPoint. This add-in also shows the current selected shape on the active slide. Such a capability is very handy when you wish to tab through shapes which are layered one below the other.

Go to Shyam’s site for more info and free download.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Shyam Pillai