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Surf The Web From Your PowerPoint

sarahintampa — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:34:00 GMT

I just saw this PowerPoint addin on MakeUseOf and it make me think about how many different PowerPoint tools I’ve seen lately: the Office Labs pptPlex addin which makes PowerPoints deem-zoomable; the Cooliris plugin which takes your slideshows to 3D; the PowerPoint Remote Gadget that lets you control a slideshow from your phone; Freepath, which lets you mashup your slideshows with other web content; and, of course, Slideshare, the home for sharing PowerPoints with others on the web.

This latest addin called LiveWeb doesn’t appear to be new exactly, but it was new to me. LiveWeb works with any version of PowerPoint from 97 on up to allow you to open a web browser within the presentation itself as opposed to launching an external application (like IE). Its browser can display the real web in PowerPoint including PDFs, java, and VRML. You can download LiveWeb for free from here.

pptPlex From Office Labs

sarahintampa — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:35:00 GMT

Having just recently released Speed Launch, an application launcher for Windows, the Office Labs guys are at it again. This time, they’re releasing pptPlex, a plug-in for Microsoft PowerPoint that provides zooming capabilities. With pptPlex installed, you can present your slides as a tour through a zoomable canvas – sort of like Silverlight’s Deep Zoom – instead of a linear deck. You may remember seeing a similar technology demoed by Bill Gates at this year’s Microsoft CEO Summit, but pptPlex is really just a take-off on that technology, which was called Plex. It’s not the same prototype as Plex.

First we get the Cooliris plugin for PowerPoint and now this? Wow, looks like boring slideshows may be a thing of the past.

pptPlex only works with Office PowerPoint 2007 and is available for download here.

Cooliris Plugin For PowerPoint

sarahintampa — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:21:00 GMT

Cooliris, the browser plugin technology that used to be known as PicLens, is an amazing tool that transforms the sites in your web browser from a 2D pages into full-on 3D experiences. (Read our previous review here). But did you know that you can use Cooliris outside the browser, too? The Cooliris team has released a new plugin designed just for Microsoft PowerPoint users. With this plugin, you can easily browse through your presentation for a particular slide and pull it up full-screen. Cooliris is certainly a good way to make your presentations engaging and interesting for your audience. You can download the plugin from here.

Slide:ology Teaches You How To Create Great Presentations

sarahintampa — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:54:00 GMT

I had never heard of Nancy Duarte of Duarte, but I had seen her work. Via a recent interview published on Web Worker Daily, I discovered that her agency was the one that designed and produced Al Gore’s keynote presentation for the movie An Inconvenient Truth. No matter how you feel about global warming, you have to agree – that was an impressive slideshow. Although most of us will never have the opportunity to craft a slideshow of that magnitude, there is a lot we can learn from Nancy and her team at Duarte about the art of the presentation. In fact, Nancy will be releasing a new book on the subject called slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations. But you don’t need to wait to read the book to start getting some of those great tips now – you can just subscribe to the slide:ology blog. Here, you’ll find posts like “Tips for Remote Presenters,” “A 30 Second Presentation,” among other, more personal articles. The blog is relatively new, so I look forward to what other insights may be in store for us.

Control PowerPoint With Your Phone

sarahintampa — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:34:00 GMT

Got a Vista laptop and a Windows Mobile Smartphone? If so, then you already have a way to control PowerPoint with your phone – all you need is some SideShow software. To get started, you must first pair your phone with your laptop via Bluetooth (if you haven’t already done so), then download SideShow for Mobile. SideShow for Mobile is an application for Windows Mobile smartphones (versions 5 and 6) and PocketPCs that let you use your phone as a Bluetooth SideShow device. The final step is to download the Office PowerPoint Remote gadget. With this gadget installed, you can control PowerPoint with your phone - no remote required! You can move forward and back, jump to a specific slide in the presentation, preview the next slide, and view the slide speaker notes on your device. It will even work right from the Today screen so you can just use the hardware buttons on the phone to control the presentation. Nice!

(Image thanks to Chris Craft’s Blog)

5 Microsoft Office Ribbon Tweaks You May Not Have Known

sarahintampa — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:19:00 GMT

Thanks to some internal emails that were going around recently, we’ve discovered some great Microsoft Office ribbon tweaks, tips, and customizations. I’ll confess, I hadn’t known about all of these, but they certainly are handy:

Hide the Ribbon: To hide the ribbon out of view leaving only the tab names showing, just double-click on any tab’s name.
Customize the Quick Access Toolbar: By default, the Quick Access Toolbar has the “Save,” “Undo,” and “Redo” buttons on it, but you can change that. To do so, go to any tab and right-click on the little pull-down menu symbol next to the window title on any Ribbon app. Here, you have the option to click on “Customize Quick Access Toolbar.” From the menu that displays, you can add and remove commands from the Quick Access Toolbar to suit your preferences. Add your most frequently used commands and you can hide the ribbon to get more screen real estate without losing access to the commands you use the most.
Find Hidden Commands: Because the Ribbon is meant to bring more simplicity to working with Office software, there are some infrequently used commands that are not available on the ribbon or are just harder to find. To bring these back into view, follow the steps above in #2 to customize the Quick Access Toolbar and you can get access to these commands once again. A couple examples of hidden commands include Excel’s pop-up calculator and PowerPoint’s Advanced Document Properties, which lets you see how big the file is.
Customize the Quick Access Toolbar on the Fly: No need to hunt down the little right-click menu, though, you can just right-click any command on the ribbon and choose “Add to Quick Access Toolbar.”
Scroll Through Tabs With a Mouse Wheel: If you have a mouse with a wheel, you can scroll through the tabs if the cursor is over the Ribbon – very useful for quick switching.

We would like to thank both Steven Levy and Alex Babanov for these great tips!

Don't Email Your PowerPoints: Share Them!

sarahintampa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:23:00 GMT

A new service called SlideShare is becoming quite popular for sharing PowerPoint presentations via the web. The service lets you upload your presentations to the web, where they can be shared publicly with the world or privately with those you choose.

Once uploaded to the SlideShare service, you can then embed the presentations right onto your web site - something which makes it easy to share information with your customers if you're running a business or provides an easy way to share slides with your friends if you have a personal web site or blog.

In addition to PowerPoint files, you can also use SlideShare to upload PDFs to the web.

The files can be as large as 50 MB in size, which is a lot more than competitors offer, like 10 MB at Zoho Show, for example. Plus, it's much easier to share your presentations than try to compress them into an email.

Best of all, SlideShare is free!

Share Your Powerpoints with Slidelive

sarahintampa — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:30:00 GMT

With the Slidelive service, you can instantly share your PowerPoint presentations by uploading them to the web then inviting others to a live walkthrough. Once the other participants are logged in, they can follow the slides in their browser as you clickthrough them. This could be really useful for a conference call when you also want to share a slideshow you have created.

The service lets you upload and store up to five presentations and you can manage and schedule them from your Slidelive account. Presentations can be shared with up to 100 people simultaneously. You can also keep a history of the presentations you have seen. Check out Slidelive's free service here if you want to try it out for yourself. (via)

PowerPoint for Office 2007 ::Create dynamic and high-impact presentations faster than ever

Laura — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:01:00 GMT

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 enables users to quickly create high-impact, dynamic presentations, while integrating workflow and ways to easily share information. From the redesigned user interface to the new graphics and formatting capabilities, Office PowerPoint 2007 puts the control in your hands to create great-looking presentations. Watch this video RIGHT NOW and see what you might be missing :)