PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Giving PowerPoint Pizzazz with Macromedia Flash

There are many reasons you might want to use Flash movies in your PowerPoint presentation, most notably to take advantage of Flash’s interactive vector animations and small file size. In some cases, you may already have Flash movies on your Web site or intranet that you want to incorporate into PowerPoint. Or you may want to create a Flash movie specifically to include in a presentation, enabling you to add some extra pizzazz to PowerPoint’s existing functionality.

Learn about using Flash in PowerPoint with Patrice-Anne Rutledge.

Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Flash, Guest Post, Patrice-Anne Rutledge, PowerPoint

Book Extract: Special Edition Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003

This book extract from Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 is an Indezine exclusive with permission from Pearson Education. The extract is an entire chapter on working with charts in PowerPoint.

Thanks to Patrice-Anne Rutledge, one of the authors who helped us get permission for this excerpt.

Read here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: Books, Patrice-Anne Rutledge, PowerPoint 2003

What You Should Know About Mydoom?

W32/Mydoom@MM spreads through e-mail. This worm can disguise the sender’s address, a tactic known as spoofing, and may generate e-mails that appear to have been sent by Microsoft or someone else. Many of the addresses Mydoom uses are valid addresses that are being spoofed for malicious purposes.

Here’s Microsoft’s security response.

Filed Under: Miscellaneous
Tagged as: MyDoom

PowerPoint Raves And Rants

The Sydney Morning Herald talks about how PowerPoint has given confidence to mediocre public speakers, has captivated the business world, and why it was recently implicated as one of many factors leading to last year’s Columbia space shuttle crash.

Power, up to a Point.

Filed Under: Thoughts
Tagged as: Opinion, PowerPoint

Create Star Wars Style Credits in PowerPoint

George Lucas must be so proud of Microsoft. In PowerPoint 2002 and 2003, you can now make Star Wars style animations. The text crawls from bottom to the top, diminishing in size until it fades into oblivion. You expect to see the Millennium Falcon zoom by at any moment.

Learn more from my tutorial at the Computor Companion site.

If the link above does not work for you, please find similar tutorials for many PowerPoint versions at our Animation Effects and Examples: Star Wars Style Credits Animation in PowerPoint page.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint, Star Wars