PowerPoint

Today's Kinect Project is one of the favorite kinds, controlling PowerPoint with gestures, via the Kinect. This one is different in that it's based on a PowerPoint add-in, so has a better connection (no pun intended) to the presentation (i.e. no need for SendKey tricks) Creating a PowerPoint add-in…

Ask any business guru, and they probably won’t tell you that the secret to being a superstar in your organisation isn’t about how hard you work, the results you produce, or your ability to network. It’s all about the fonts you use in your documents. Sure, anyone can write 50,000 words on the…

There’s a new Microsoft Office add-in that lets you search for and download online images into Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint (either 2007 or 2010 versions). The images come from Veer, a site that offers an online collection of professional photography and illustrations for purchase. The…

Over at iStartedSomething, Long Zheng exported one of the Office 2010 Powerpoint presentations to a video so you can see the type of advanced animation possible using the DirectX engine in PowerPoint 2010. The presentation gives you 5 rules to follow to make great presentations. If you…

Remember when we told you about the Twitter Tools for PowerPoint created by SAP? This handy toolset which originally included a Twitter ticker bar, a feedback slide, and a voting slide has now been updated to include more tools and features. In the latest release, posted on SAP’s Web 2.0 blog,…

LG and AT&T have just announced the launch of a new Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone with one standout feature: a built-in projector for displaying PowerPoint slideshows on the go. OK, OK, that’s not all the projector can be used for – the DLP pico projector can display other media too, like…

There’s a new tool called Workshare Compare for PowerPoint, which will appeal to power users of PowerPoint who create large, complex, and complicated presentations using the Microsoft Office slideshow software. The purpose of the software is to track and manage edits made in slides from…

Want to create a truly dynamic presentation? Then how about adding Twitter right into your next PowerPoint slideshow? No, I don’t mean adding screenshots of tweets – I mean adding live updating, real-time streams of tweets. Thanks to SAP’s Web 2.0 blog, there’s now a way to do this. Using the…

Earlier this week the Office team released a video that showed some of the new features of PowerPoint 2010, part of the Office 2010 suite. The latest version is hardware-accelerated with new transitions and animations. All of this means that you can better use PowerPoint to not just present bullet…

Earlier this week the Office team released a video that showed some of the new features of PowerPoint 2010, part of the Office 2010 suite. The latest version is hardware-accelerated with new transitions and animations. All of this means that you can better use PowerPoint to not just…