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PPTPlex – A New View of Presentations!

Okay, this is some pretty cool stuff! Microsoft Labs (kind of an R-&-D group that releases software that MS makes no guarantees about or support for) has made a PPT 2007 add-in that changes the way you think about slide navigation.

Imagine one slide having a dozen very very small thumbnail images of other slides and then those slides having even smaller thumbnail images of more slides. View the first slide, click on a thumbnail and zoom into it. Go through the slides in order or zoom back out to go to a different topic/section!

This one is easier to see explained, so click here for movie overview. I will be experimenting with PPTPlex this week and should have a few samples posted.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:43:59-07:00August 20th, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|

indisain.com – Images for Presentations

In searching for images for a current project I stumbled on indisain, a royalty free site that offers all images free of charge.

You do need to register in order to login and download images (without a watermark). I found the variety good, but the image size varied from usable (1280px wide) to unusable (100px wide). Images are categorized, but limited search capabilities with categories. And some categories had more images than others, such as the landscapes category with 72 pages of images.

If you need another image resource, you can check out indisain here.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:44:29-07:00August 18th, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|

Two Versions Of PPT Installed? Launch ‘Wrong’ Version?

I run multiple versions of PowerPoint on my systems – namely PPT 2003 and PPT 2007 (although a few have all versions from 97 to 2007). If you run multiple versions, then the new set of security updates from Microsoft yesterday probably changed your default application.

I still have PPT 2003 set as my default version of PPT. But the latest security updates change the default application to PPT 2007. So now when I double-click on a presentation file it opens in PPT 2007.

The fix is fairly simple – just click here for a post I made all the way back in ’06.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:44:53-07:00August 15th, 2008|Tutorial|

Vector Cartoon Images

This is a fun resource I discovered recently.

Vector-cartoons.com does require registering and has a weekly download limit. I was able to find exactly what was needed – as a high-quality fully editable vector image!

Note: for PPT download the .wmf version (I downloaded the .eps, modified in Illustrator and then exported as a .wmf).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:45:35-07:00August 8th, 2008|Resource/Misc|

Erase Personal Information From Presentation

“The creation date, time and author show up on the document properties of the PowerPoint presentation.” (for the curious, you can read the full story here).

Have you ever been concerned with too much information being included in your presentation? Maybe even information that is not on a slide, but buried in a link or the file properties… I have for years tried to keep my clients out of trouble by removing often removing their personal information, or sometimes the TLC Creative Services information from the file properties.

My tool for doing this – the Shyam’s Toolbox add-in.

Just go to TOOLBOX >> OBJECTS >> ERASE PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM PRESENTATION

No the file properties are clear – no time stamp, no amount record of hours worked, etc.

It is just one of the many tools in the add-in package, which runs approximately $50 – but it can be worth it as the above story points out!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:45:55-07:00August 6th, 2008|Tutorial|

PowerPoint For Peace

We often forget as individuals we can do a lot to make this world a better place and spend time waiting for the change to happen. Here is an initiative to prove it to ourselves that we can do as much as anyone to promote peace.

Glenna Shaw and Geetesh Bajaj, both PowerPoint MVPs have started a unique initiative “PowerPoint for Peace”, a Global Community Project. The project just last week and is building a universal presentation that recognizes the contributions and commitments of people from around the World to improve the planet and the lives of our fellow inhabitants.

authorSTREAM.com is being used as a platform and participating is very easy. Just create a single slide that depicts a contribution that helps make the World a better place to live in (must contain your name/group/company and be uploaded using the authorSTREAM link).

See it and participate here.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:46:59-07:00August 4th, 2008|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

XOBNI is Great!

If you are an Outlook user like me for email (my 12 year old daughter has no use for email that is not web-based on accessible from any connection or phone). I think this is a must have tool, and I am in good company as Mr. Bill Gates recently extolled its usefullness!

Xobni is “inbox” spelled backwards. It runs along side Outlook, without touching any of its files (very important to me) and is viewed in a new column. It adds information about who is emailing you, how to contact them, who you have mutually emailed, threaded conversations and more.

By far my favorite feature is the ‘Files Exchanged’ area that shows all of the attachments that person has sent me – which means no more hunting through old emails for that logo!

It is FREE and works! Look at it here.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:47:35-07:00August 1st, 2008|Software/Add-Ins|

Day At Disney (Offices)

I am working on a multimedia CDROM for a division of Disney and had to spend the day at their corporate offices on one of their internal computers to get the needed screen captures for an interactive tutorial. Kind of a fun place to work with signage like this everywhere:

And much to my daughters dismay I was not able to get in to the sound stage in the next building where they are filming High School Musical 3…

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:48:08-07:00July 30th, 2008|Personal|

Bad Error Message From Motorola

So, if your cell phone displays this error message:

It is time for a new phone! Last week while traveling my phone ‘turned on’ with this message and there was nothing I could do to get it to function. Of course my cell phone is also my modem while traveling so no internet access!

Back at the office Friday I did a bit of online research (was going through internet access withdrawls) and quickly found out I am not the only Motorola user to have this error message and that in 100% cases the phone is dead. New phone arrives tomorrow – just in time for my next trip.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:48:35-07:00July 28th, 2008|Personal|

Microsoft’s New Fonts

With Vista Microsoft released some new font, each designed to replace an existing font. The new fonts are designed for onscreen legibility and scaling. Here is what they are and what they replace:

Cambria = Georga and Times New Roman

Calibri = Arial

Candara = Trebuchet MS and Helvetica

Consolas = Lucidia Console and Courier New

Constantia = Georga and Palatino

Corbel = Verdana

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T12:48:56-07:00July 18th, 2008|Tutorial|