PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Enable Trusted Certificates

Now that you know how you can create a self-signed digital certificate outside PowerPoint, you will soon discover that these certificates are not trusted. This means that you can send these non-trusted certificates only to known people who are confident that the sender is the actual originator (or author) of the document. However, you can provide the recipients a certain level of confidence by converting these to trusted certificates. In this tutorial you’ll learn to stamp a self-signed certificate as trusted within PowerPoint.

Learn how to enable trusted certificates in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Security, Tutorials

How Audiences See: Follow the Action

By Jerry Weissman

Does this large, illuminated letter look familiar? It should. The style has been around ever since medieval times to mark the beginning of a new document. It has continued on into modern publishing where an enlarged first letter marks the beginning of chapters in books and the beginnings of articles in magazines and newspapers. Now it becomes a factor in how we view computer screens.

EyeTrackShop, an eponymous Swedish start-up company, does exactly what its name says: track eye movements to, as their slogan puts it, “identify where people look, for how long and in what order.” Using webcams to follow and record how viewers perceive images, the company’s technology helps advertisers create effective ads and web designers create effective web pages. By understanding the dynamics of how viewers perceive ads and web pages, you can create effective graphics for your presentations.

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Tagged as: Guest Post, Jerry Weissman, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Target Diagram

PowerPoint provides a large collection of ready-made shapes that you can easily insert in your PowerPoint slides. You can go ahead and add multiple shapes on the same slide and then flip, rotate, reorder, or group them as required, or combine them to create your own new diagrams and designs. These combined shapes help create more involved diagrams such as a target diagram — in this tutorial we’ll show you how simple it is to create a target by placing circles of succeeding smaller sizes one on top of the other.

Learn how to draw a target diagram with multiple circles in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Shapes, Tutorials

Slide Executive xPoint Desktop: The Indezine Review

Slide Executive xPoint (hereafter xPoint) is a PowerPoint add-in that searches and inserts slides and images from your computer, company cloud, and from the web, straight into your PowerPoint presentations. It installs as a tab of the Ribbon in PowerPoint providing access to a local and/or a central slide library in the cloud. For single users, xPoint provides desktop slide search and management tools. For multiple users in a company, xPoint provides the ability to search and browse slides/presentations — this increases the use of approved slides and also brings consistency to all company presentations. Furthermore xPoint includes free search and insertion of slides and images from the internet. In this review, we are exploring the desktop edition of xPoint.

Learn about Slide Executive xPoint, a PowerPoint add-in that lets you index your PowerPoint presentations, and then re-use them.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Digital Asset Management, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Creating Digital Certificates Outside PowerPoint

We have already explored how you can create a basic digital signature right within PowerPoint 2010 — and how you can sign your presentation. Each signature is contained inside a digital certificate. Digital certificates, also known as digital IDs can either be self-signed (as explained in our Acquire or Create a Digital Signature in PowerPoint 2010 tutorial) or issued by Certificate Authority within an organization. Although PowerPoint lets you create a certificate, it does not let you create multiple certificates — to do that, you can create a digital certificate outside PowerPoint.

Learn how to create Digital Certificates outside PowerPoint 2010 for Window.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Security, Tutorials