The PowerPoint Ezine - 28
by Geetesh Bajaj
Contents
Microsoft launches Office Online
New Products, Offers from CrystalGraphics
Quick News
Focus on Agility Presenter 1.1
PowerPoint For Court
Visio Content in PowerPoint
Events and Seminars
Microsoft launches Office Online
On September 9th, Microsoft launched Office Online, a part
of its website that directly integrates with mainstream Office
applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and FrontPage that are
expected to release on October 21st as part of the new Office
System 2003 suite.
Much of Office Online will be integrated within the task panes
of Office 2003 applications thus allowing end users to experience
a seamless work flow from within the application interface. Older
Office version applications will also benefit from the Office Online
site although the integration would be through a separate browser
window rather than the task panes.
Visit Office
Online...
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New Products, Offers from CrystalGraphics
 CrystalGraphics has
announced a new screen saver creation tool that ports PowerPoint
content into redistributable screen savers. The product called PowerPlugs:
Screensaver Creator allows you to create screen savers from
right within PowerPoint, using PowerPoint’s own tools. Then
you can distribute them to as many people as you want, royalty
free. The product costs US$49 and includes a special edition of
the Serene Screen Marine Aquarium Crystal screen saver. More
info...
CrystalGraphics' new Ultimate Combo 12 suite of PowerPlugs
add-ins for PowerPoint includes 12 titles - 31 volumes in all on
10 CDs. The volumes included are:
 Screensaver
Creator- Transitions I, II, III & IV
- SuperShapes I & II
- PhotoActive FX I & II
- Charts
- Templates I - VI
- 3D Titles I & II
- Headings I & II
- Quotations
- Slides that Win!
- Stationery 1-7
- Music I & II
In addition you receive the RemotePoint Navigator, a US$149 value
as a free gift. The entire suite costs US$499, thus providing you
savings of 66% over the combined retail price of individual titles. More
info...
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Quick News
Sonia Coleman and Steve Hetrick have announced an
upgrade of their PowerLink Plus 2.0 product that now uses
the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer - more
info...
PowerPoint Live, being held at Tucson AZ from October 12
to 15, 2003 is a three-day event that includes seminars, workshops,
hands-on technical support and keynote addresses covering virtually
every topic of interest to the PowerPoint user community. More
info...
You can now syndicate content from Indezine for free to
mirror at your site or use in any other mutually acceptable way
- learn more...
Jennifer Rotondo of Creative Minds, Inc. informed
me about her new upcoming product - FlashClips. FlashClips
allows you to insert Flash animations from an included library
or from your own Flash movies into PowerPoint. This PowerPoint
add-in enables you to embed, loop and scale them. They also automatically
rewind and run properly in PowerPoint without any additional programming. Learn
more...
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Focus on Agility Presenter 1.1
Anystream announced feature and performance enhancements
to its rich media add-in for PowerPoint - Agility Presenter.
These enhancements let users capture presentations and events using
professional and broadcast quality video devices, and share completed
presentations with audiences running any 32 bit version of Windows.
Introduced in April, Agility Presenter is an add-in to Microsoft
PowerPoint that lets presenters capture audio and video during
any slide show, and instantly create Web-based presentations – with
slides and comments synchronized – for others to view from
standard Web browsers.
Look out for a full Indezine review.
More info...
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PowerPoint For Court
PowerPoint is fast becoming the software of choice for the courtroom.
With its video handling capabilities along with the ability to
link to any slide, program or file on our computer or the www,
we now have a complete courtroom presentation system at our fingertips.
Just a few years ago there wouldn't be much to write about. Sure
we had the Elmos and slide projectors and of course the tape recorder
and the VHS player. Unfortunately, none of these allowed for non-linear
presentations.
If we wanted to play a section of an audio tape we had to cue
it up in advance and if we wanted another section, well, we just
had to fast forward or rewind until we found it. Same thing with
the VHS tape.
With the advent of the computer, we can now have any type of document,
image, sound clip, video image, animation etc. at our fingertips.
With the LCD Projectors, we can now display our computer screen
and anything on it in incredible detail for all to see. Editing
video clips and sound bites have become an easy chore. How we get
these images out of the computer and into a killer presentation
is another new area of expertise.
Read more about this fascinating PowerPoint nuance in Herb
Rubinstein's guest article for Indezine called PowerPoint
For Court...
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Visio Content in PowerPoint
You cannot insert Visio content into PowerPoint in Visio's
native drawing format. Either you'll need to link to an existing
or newly-created Visio drawing as an object - or export from Visio
to a graphic format and thereafter import it into PowerPoint. Between
the two methods, you'll have to choose the latter if you want to
transport your presentation to a system without Visio installed.
Let's examine the Insert -> Object route:
- In PowerPoint, go to Insert -> Object. In the resultant
dialog box, choose the 'Create New' option and select 'Microsoft
Visio Drawing'. Click OK.
- Visio opens with the 'Choose Drawing Type' option. Make your
selection and decide if would like to use the colour scheme from
the PowerPoint presentation - thereafter create your diagram.
- Click anywhere outside the Visio area to go back to PowerPoint.
The second method is more straight-forward. Although you cannot
edit the original drawing this way, the resultant presentation
will be more compact and portable:
- Open or create a Visio diagram. Choose File -> Save
As.
- The resultant 'Save As' dialog box allows you to save the diagram
to several graphic formats - both vector and raster. In all you
can save to 28 formats - we'll choose WMF (it's the second last
option) since that's the best format to transport graphic content
between Microsoft applications. WMF can also be natively edited
within PowerPoint as a drawing - although not as diagram! It
can also be thereafter animated.
- In PowerPoint, choose Insert -> Picture -> From File
and navigate to and choose the WMF file.
There's also a third method - learn more about that and read other
PowerPoint-Visio stuff at:
PowerPoint and Visio
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Events & Seminars
Winning Presentations Seminar
September 24 and 25, 2003
Boston, USA
Claudyne Wilder, Wilder Presentations
http://www.wilderpresentations.com/
PowerPoint Live
October 12 to 15, 2003
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Rick Altman, R Altman Digital Consulting
http://www.pptlive.com/
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Credits
During the preparation of this issue of
the PowerPoint Ezine, I received assistance, content or feedback
from Darian Germain, Herb Rubinstein, Jennifer Rotondo, Nicole
Ha and Sonia Coleman, (all in alphabetical order). I would like
to use this platform to thank them for their help.
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