PowerPoint

This week hosts Jeremy Chapman and Richard diZerega explore what's new in the new world of apps for Office. They look at the top 5 new features including amazing content apps for PowerPoint, Excel APIs for formatting, content apps for Access, mail APIs for body and attachments and compose mail apps.…

This week's show is part two in a series answering your frequently asked questions about Office. Jeremy is joined again by Tal Kryzpow to answer questions about why the screen flickers when presenting PowerPoint plus how to use advanced Excel features and more. Stay up to date with the latest shows…

This week kicks off a six-part series on location in New Orleans and will cover the enhancements around touch and immersive experiences in the new Office. Jeremy Chapman is joined by Tal Krzypow and Tim Bakke to show Office experiences across screens of all sizes – from phones to large panel…

Joshua Blake is back with an update to his Kinect PowerPoint Control project... Kinect PowerPoint Control v1.2Updated for Kinect SDK v1.7... This project shows how to use the Kinect SDK to do basic gesture recognition to control PowerPoint. ... UsageCompile and run the application Point the Kinect…

This is a sample from the K4W community. Josh Blake, K4W MVP, built an application that allows you to advance PowerPoint slides using Kinect gestures. This video provides a quick walkthrough of the important parts of the source code. Check out part one which shows how the application works and…

This is a sample from the K4W community. Josh Blake, K4W MVP, built an application that allows you to advance PowerPoint slides using Kinect gestures. This video provides a quick demonstration of the features of the application. Check out part two which walks through the important parts of the…

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 happen to…