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The PowerPoint and OfficeArt blog at MSDN is now live! It's got to a great start with Ric Bretschneider's thoughts and experiences.
Ric (see picture) is an amazing person who's also a Program Manager for PowerPoint - make sure you read and bookmark this page!
Read the blog here...
If a picture is worth so many words, a video is probably worth even more. And you'll agree when you see the new streamlined Microsoft Office user interface in action. This video gives you a detailed look at how this new interface will make it easier to find and use the features you need to get the results you want. More on the Microsoft site...
Buy any Dummies book including my Cutting Edge PowerPoint for Dummies and you'll get $5 back as a mail-in rebate! But this offer is available for only two more days: today and tomorrow! Find out more at the Dummies site...
March is Dummies Month!
Tuval Software Industries has announced the launch of Version 1.1 of Speech-Over Studio, a software application that enables Microsoft PowerPoint slides to include narration without any need for recording. It has a wide variety of applications in business, marketing, education, training and corporate communications. A good voice narration in a PowerPoint presentation delivers the message almost as well as a presenter can. More on the PRWeb site...
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I just read this fascinating thread on stolen projectors - it all started with why Hitachi's orange projector won't get stolen! But it moved on to more interesting conversations. More on the Ars Technica site...
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Do you get frustrated working with Microsoft's presentation program, and can't find the answers anywhere? Then you'll love this book. You can't buy this book and expect to learn how to create PowerPoints - this one is to keep on your bookshelf and refer to when you hit a roadblock. And of course, it's so much fun to read even when you are just creating nice presentations - at least you'll know exactly what to do when disaster strikes - and you might be even able to do something about it - after all, prevention is better than cure. Yes, this is first aid for PowerPoint - keep it handy!
Today's free template is Pixelmint - download here...
Indezine has negotiated an amazing deal with our friends at Impatica. From now until March 31st, Indezine customers can purchase a license of Impatica for PowerPoint for the incredible price of $149. That's $350 off the regular price! So now you know why we call it a happiness offer.
You can also view a real demo of the product, and download a trial version..
And if you have any questions about the promotion, feel free to get in touch with me...
More about Impatica Happiness...
Office 2007 to be late, too
Fresh on the heels of a delay in broad availability of Windows Vista, Microsoft confirmed late Thursday that it is also pushing the mainstream launch of Office 2007 to next year. As with Vista, Microsoft hopes to finish the code for Office 2007 this year. The company said work will be completed by October, when it will make Office 2007 available to business customers that have signed up for Microsoft's volume-licensing program. More on the ZDNet site...
Office Delayed, Along with Vista
Just after announcing a four-month delay on its Vista operating system, Microsoft said Friday it will also push back the launch of the consumer version of Office to next year, the second embarrassing delay this week for the software giant. The Redmond-based company said the new version of Office will be available to business customers through a volume-licensing program in October of this year, but retail availability for the software will be pushed back to January 2007 to coincide with the release of Vista. More on the Red Herring site...
Microsoft delays Office software to 2007
The 2007 Microsoft Office package, which includes the Word processor, Excel spreadsheet, and PowerPoint presentation software, will be made available to business customers in October 2006, the world biggest software maker said. Earlier this week, Microsoft delayed the consumer launch of its much-anticipated Windows Vista software until January 2007 from an earlier target of the second half of 2006 and pledged to ship the next version of its operating system to business customers in November. More on the Reuters UK site...
Exec says new Windows head will change culture
Last week, the world's largest software maker tapped Steven Sinofsky, a veteran executive from its Office business software segment, to lead its Windows group only days after Microsoft delayed the consumer launch of the much-anticipated upgrade to its mainstay operating system. Sinofsky comes to the Windows group, which has not shipped a new product in nearly five years, with a reputation within Microsoft as an effective taskmaster and a track record of on-time new software releases delivered in regular intervals. More on CNET News.com...
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Color Schemer Studio is an intuitive application that lets you play with all sorts of color combinations - as long as you choose from any of the color choices that this product offers, you can be reasonably sure that your finished color scheme will be based on scientific color principles. Read this Indezine review...
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...and if the room isn't right, the audience will be distracted and that major piece of genius the client contracted will be snoozed through, ignored, or poo-poo'd for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the media. More on DailyIndia.com...
I wanted all Indezine readers to get a feel of the "people pulse" at PowerPoint Live. Being part of each PowerPoint Live event, I could tell you how information, ideas, and inspiration flow from one person to another. I could also tell you about the amazing feat that Rick Altman performs flawlessly as a host at each of these events. Or even better, I could share these pictures with you all...
Today's free template is Snowman 01 - download here...
Business Objects is providing Indezine readers with a special pricing on their Xcelsius Standard charting application that integrates with PowerPoint to allow interactivity. Normally, the product retails for $195, but until March 31st, you can use this link to buy the product for just $99 - that's a saving of $96 off the standard price.
Impatica Inc. announced that it has commenced customer shipments of Impatica ShowMate – a solution that allows users to project PowerPoint presentations directly from their BlackBerry devices. More on the eMediaWire site...
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Ray Larabie became interested in fonts in the early 70's when his grandmother gave him sheets of Letraset. He became so familiar with typefaces that, by the time he was 17, he could identify hundreds of fonts by name. Ray now heads Larabie Fonts and Typodermic.
In this interview Ray discusses font usage in PowerPoint...
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Kurt Dupont from PresentationPoint is a man of ideas - and it is always interesting to see what he is going to do next. The wait is over - Kurt's new product is OutlookPoint, an add-in for Outlook that copies email messages, appointments, tasks, contact persons and notes to a database. Then you can use their DataPoint product to display this info inside PowerPoint.
As Kurt explains, the purpose of this product is to use Outlook to maintain the messages/content on the screen instead of building a complete new database for this DataPoint application. You can choose what field (sender’s name, subject, body, received time, priority etc) to display in PowerPoint. Appointments can be used to display a message on the allocated time only (e.g. between 10:00 and 11:00). Another nice thing is that now you can send an email message directly to a monitor at work when you are on holiday. This could be done via Hotmail and your PDA and you just send over a message to e.g. monitor23@mycompany.com
More info here...
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