Microsoft Office
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Last Updated: February 6th 2010
08/03/2011 11:42 PM
Theme Builder Anomalies: Removed Content from Themes
After finding that Themes saved in Theme Builder were not working in PowerPoint 2010 (Windows) and 2011 (Mac), we decided to explore the issue further, and find out what exactly Theme Builder did to cause these incompatibilities. So, to compare the Theme saved in Theme Builder with it's original version (which was saved in PowePoint 2007/2010 as a Theme), we opened both of them in Microsoft Visual Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft.
08/03/2011 12:56 AM
Theme Builder Anomalies: Themes Incompatible with PowerPoint 2010 and 2011
We have seen strange things happening with Theme Builder and how it plays with PowerPoint 2010 (and PowerPoint 2011 for Mac). For some reason, Theme Builder creates THMX files that are not too well supported by the newer versions of PowerPoint. The solution is to keep a copy of older Theme aware versions of PowerPoint installed, and resave the THMX from within those programs!
08/13/2010 12:49 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Addintools Classic Menu: Conversation with Lin Jie
Lin Jie is from Addintools, a line of add-ins for Microsoft Office applications created by Detong Technology Ltd. from China. Lin began to program since 1991, and was first introduced to Microsoft Office in 1994. He started programming Microsoft Office by creating add-ins since 2001. In 2003, he released his first Office Add-in: Addintools Create. When Microsoft Office 2007 was released with the Ribbon, Lin was the first to get back the old menus via the Classic Menu for Office 2007 in February 2007. In this conversation, Lin talks more about his products for Microsoft Office.
06/10/2010 04:02 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: NXPowerLite for File Servers: Conversation with Tommy Powell
Tommy Powell is from Neuxpower, a software solutions company based in the UK. Neuxpower custom-builds both stand-alone applications and add-ins that enhance existing software such as Microsoft Office. Their commercially-available file optimizer, NXPowerLite , radically reduces the size of PowerPoint, Word, Excel and JPEG files.
05/16/2009 04:27 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Office Intervention: Learning PowerPoint with Julie Terberg
Julie Terberg who is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP has been busy doing this cool video with Microsoft Office Online as part of their new Office Intervention series. In this particular video, Julie shows a law student how she can effectively use PowerPoint effectively to create a compelling presentation.
05/13/2009 12:45 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Nuexpowert NXPowerLite 4: The Indezine Review
NXPowerLite 4 is the new version of a well known file optimizing product that reduces the size of Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and JPEG images. The files remain in their original format, with almost no loss of quality. Also NXPowerLite works integrated within Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Mail. In this case, NXPowerLite will automatically optimize email attachments as they are sent and the file recipients don't need NXPowerLite to open or edit the attachments.
04/28/2009 11:06 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: SlideShare Support Document Formats
SlideShare, an online presentation sharing site now ups the ante by supporting more file formats including Microsoft Office Word: DOC, DOCX, Microsoft Office Word: RTF, Microsoft Office Excel: XLS, OpenOffice: ODT, ODS, Apple iWork Pages.
03/22/2009 11:24 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Book Excerpts: VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming
This exclusive book extract from VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming is presented here with permission from Packt Publishing. The book, authored by Vivek Thangaswamy will help you get started with using VSTO in several Microsoft Office 2007 applications including InfoPath, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc. The excerpt on this site looks at customizing the Ribbon interface in PowerPoint 2007.
02/16/2009 10:14 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint Cool Stuff: Access in PowerPoint
First of all, this is not a tutorial -- rather it is a walkthrough that shows proof of concept of integrating a Microsoft Access database within a PowerPoint slide. What's more -- the sample presentation that has been provided let's you use any Access database as the source for your presentation slides! You can download the sample presentation and database files. You will need to have both Microsoft Access and PowerPoint installed on the same system for this to work -- also it works best if versions of both the products are identical, as in PowerPoint 2003 and Access 2003 -- or PowerPoint 2007 and Access 2007.
01/30/2009 12:32 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: SmartDraw 2009.5: Conversation with Paul Stannard
Paul Stannard is CEO of SmartDraw.com, creators of the popular SmartDraw program. In this Indezine exclusive conversation, Paul discusses the new features in the just-released SmartDraw 2009.5