PowerPoint and Presentation News - Issue 069

Giveaways and More

For the giveaways, Neuxpower is giving away a hundred copies of their NXPowerLite PowerPoint optimization software! To win, all you need to do is fill in this form. This sweepstakes ends on August 8th.

Also Ppted is giving away ten copies of their Grid Horizons collection of PowerPoint templates. To win, all you need to do is fill in this form. This sweepstakes also ends on August 8th.

And here are the winners from the last giveaways:

• Educational 02 collection from Ppted: Bonnie Moore, Greg Keene, Kathleen Stringer, Nora Riquelme, and Sharon Umbel
• Serious Magic Ovation: Helene Rider and Linda Hunt

Congratulations to all the winners!

Learning PowerPoint

Do you want to learn more about the small things that make your PowerPoint experience easier. Many subscribers have told me that they want more usability and learning articles. Here are some tutorials:

Hiding and Unhiding Toolbars
CustomizingToolbars
Outlining Toolbar
PowerPoint Slides from Excel Lists

Video Backgrounds Released

CrystalGraphics released version 1.3 of their Video Backgrounds Player and 29 new volumes of moving Video Backgrounds content. Both are separate products, and do take a look here...

Focus on WildPresenter

If you have used any of the PowerPoint to Flash converter programs, here is something different. Like most other programs WildPresenter, a product from Wildform imports your PowerPoint presentation, but it doesn't export it to Flash straightaway. In fact, it provides an environment not too different from PowerPoint that lets you fine-tune your presentation before you export to Flash. During the process, you can preview your presentations. The Flash output is much smaller than other applications.

Check out the full review.

In addition, here's an Indezine exclusive: a quick conversation with Jonathan Blank of Wildform.

Conversations and Interviews

Here are more conversations:

Rob Griffiths of MacWorld compares PowerPoint with Apple Keynote.

Steve Rindsberg of RnR takes you on a walkthrough of his ShapeStyles add-in.

Colin McBride of in-Shop discusses their new Flash Toolbar add-in for PowerPoint...

Michael Power of Neuxpower discusses the new version of NXPowerLite, their PowerPoint compression software.

And here are more detailed interviews:

Joel Harband of Tuval Software discusses Speech-Over Studio, a PowerPoint add-in that enables PowerPoint slides to incorporate narrations using automated voices.

Kirk Cunningham of Business Objects discusses the use of Crystal Xcelsius, an amazing business charting program.

End Note

More PowerPoint related info on the PowerPoint Blog and PowerPoint Notes. And PowerPoint templates for all of you.

And here's a link to the previous issue of this newsletter.

Until next time - have a great day. And keep the feedback coming.