http://www.aroup.com/en Presentation Skills. PowerPoint Features. Usefull Programs and Advices Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:46:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One thing that always surprises me when I sit in an Adobe conference room or attend a conference session led by an Adobe employee is watching a Powerpoint presentation on an LCD. I know that creating presentations is handy in PowerPoint, but after preparing presentations in layout programs and converting ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/30/creating-slide-presentations-using-indesign-and-acrobat/ Poster printing presentations are very much an integral part of any research undertaking because you need to communicate to your colleagues the result of what you have done and interact with them.In any professional association meetings, poster printing sessions have become very significant with its purpose of providing the presenters ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/29/making-an-effective-poster-presentation-2/ This is not just for N95, but it is a great tool for people who have to give PowerPoint presentations.PhonePoint is the professional wireless presentation tool.It has been designed from the ground up as a tool for presenters; slowly fine tuned with feedback from these professionals, people for whom presentations ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/29/do-you-ever-give-powerpoint-presentations-use-your-n95/ Poster printing presentations are very much an integral part of any research undertaking because you need to communicate to your colleagues the result of what you have done and interact with them.In any professional association meetings, poster printing sessions have become very significant with its purpose of providing the presenters ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/24/making-an-effective-poster-presentation/ We love to hate PowerPoint, as Abhay Padgaonkar observes over at MarketingProfs. But is it PowerPoint, or just people using it badly? Does PowerPoint deserve more ire than, say, Word (used to create unreadable documents) or Excel (used to create meaningless spreadsheets)?Padgaonkar says:Remember, PowerPoint is simply a means to an ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/24/powerless-in-the-face-of-powerpoint/ About four months ago SlideShare launched a presentation contest. The goal was to find the World’s Best Presentation. The presentations were judged by top presentation gurus and the viewers (us, you and me).The judges and top presentation gurus were Guy Kawasaki, Bert Decker, Garr Reynolds and Jerry Weissman.Now I’ve created ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/23/10-things-to-learn-from-the-world%e2%80%99s-best-powerpoint-presentations/ Another Teacher Tech Article for you. This is for anyone who would like to edit a video clip from a video file or from a DVD and add that video clip to your PowerPoint presentation. There are several steps in this process - some of which you might not need ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/21/how-to-edit-and-add-video-clips-to-powerpoint-presentations/ Attorney David Sparks who writes about Apple and the Mac at MacSparky.com, penned a review of Apple's Keynote '08 presentation software recently, see Review - Keynote ‘08.   In comparison to Microsoft's Powerpoint, it is not difficult to see which product he prefers: Presentations and word processing are my bread and butter. That is, I ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/21/apple-keynote-vs-microsoft-powerpoint/ Comparing The Tools for Getting your PowerPoint Presentation Online  Zoho Show, SlideShare, Scribd, SlideAware and Splashcast are some of the most popular hosting services for uploading PowerPoint files on the web for others to watch the slideshows online or for you to embed the presentations inside web pages. If you ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/15/where-to-upload-powerpoint-presentations-on-the-web-and-why/ No one willingly gives a presentation when they don't believe in their presentation skills, but a lot of people are forced to in their every day lives. Sometimes these presentations are required through school or work or some other event but most people do have to give one sometime in ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/15/how-to-avoid-bad-presentation/ Have you ever wished your early design mockups could come to life, so you could try out the navigation, test an interaction, or see if a button label just feels right when you click on it? Sure, you could invest in a dedicated prototyping tool, but you can create surprisingly quick ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/13/interactive-prototypes-with-powerpoint/ GMail now has an inbuilt PPT viewer that lets you view Powerpoint attachment as a Flash picture slideshow in the web browser itself without requiring Microsoft PowerPoint application. This slideshow feature of GMail will be useful since you no longer have to download the full PPT attachment in order to ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/11/convert-powerpoint-presentations-to-flash-with-gmail-ppt-viewer/ BECOME A MULTI-MEDIA GURU BY ADOPTING SEVEN SIMPLE PRACTICESThe problem with PowerPoint is that you need to become a multi-media guru to use it effectively! From flashing text to animated images, it's great if you have hours to indulge your creative passion, but on the most part, if you ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/11/how-to-avoid-the-pitfalls-of-powerpoint-presentations/ If you have ever given a conference talk, led a seminar group, or even hosted a meeting with accompanying PowerPoint presentation on WebEx, you have probably hear the request “can we get a copy of your slides?” Sending a large PowerPoint file via email and ensuring you have locked editing ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/08/02/slideshare-and-slidecasting-tools-to-make-your-presentations-easier/ Yesterday Laurence talked about the challenges that a multitude of interfaces can present a solution builder, specifically in the context of ECM, and today Billy added his thoughts. While both posts seem to be focused more on visual interfaces (UI) than non-visual interfaces, the concerns raised apply to interfaces in general. Here are my ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/07/27/presentation-has-its-price/ Recently, Robert Middleton, http://www.actionplan.com/ reminded me why we must get away from power point presentations, or as I call it the dreaded 3P!We have found ourselves in the business world so concerned about being politically correct, well practiced and prepared for anything that we have forgotten that all presentations to ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/06/18/why-power-point-presentations-bore-us-%e2%80%94-the-dreaded-3p/ You can use Powerpoint to edit your photographs with advanced features like transparency, masking, and custom borders. You can actually create some pretty stunning creations using your digital photos and auto shapes. The drawback to PowerPoint is that you are unable to accurately measure things. You can’t set the resolution ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/06/13/powerpoint-as-a-photo-editor/ Google has added yet another document preview button to Gmail. You could already preview Word documents and spreadsheets sent as file attachments using Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Now if you receive an email with an attached PowerPoint presentation, you can view the slideshow in your web browser with no need ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/06/13/preview-powerpoint-slides-in-gmail/ In my consulting work, I get a chance to collaborate on developing presentations with people in many different geographic locations. Sometimes it is face-to-face and other times it is done virtually. Collaborating on presentations instead of doing it yourself is becoming more common. Today I have some tips for ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/06/13/powerpoint-tip-collaborating-on-presentations/ If you work in Microsoft Word, you may be familiar with the comments feature. It allows you to add comments throughout a document to alert a reader or author to certain information. For example, an editor can leave comments by certain content in a document to alert the author about ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/06/03/powerpoint-2007-add-comments/ It's not unusual for a speaker to need to write down notes during a presentation, especially in a meeting environment. For example, you might want to keep track of decisions made, actions steps to take (and who should take them), questions from the audience, and so on.PowerPoint 2000 and 2002 ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/05/23/powerpoint-notes-during-a-presentation/ PowerPoint 2003 lets you reorganize the slides in a presentation. This is not a new feature as it was also included in previous versions. In most cases, you could reorganize your slides by selecting the Slide Sorter option from the View menu.PowerPoint 2003 has enhanced the slide sorter feature to ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/05/09/powerpoint-2003-sort-your-slides/ Guy Kawasaki, a judge for Slideshare.net's recent World's Best Presentation contest, posted a blog entry about the winners. I was quite impressed by the winner, Jeff Brenman, who created a presentation titled Shift Happens. In the spirit of The World is Flat, it highlights some of the economic, social ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/05/09/worlds-best-presentation-winners-announced/ Presenting information as you might have done with OHTs in the old days Supporting a speech or lecture – bullet points reminding you of what to say Displaying images in a big way A slide show (literally) A simple way to create graphics Getting started Plan what you want to ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/05/09/why-do-you-want-to-use-powerpoint/ “It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.”- Wayne BurgraffNote: This guest post was written by personal development blogger Scott Young. You can check out his website here.Communication is a skill. That means if you want to blow the interviewer away, knock them out with your ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/05/05/5-powerful-hacks-to-immediately-improve-your-presentations/ Let's do this: - Click inside your bulleted list (to select it) - Make sure that no words are highlighted...just the entire list surrounded (this is a very Powerful animation tool, so we have to make sure we select precisely what we need animated)- Click the Add Effect button on ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/05/05/death-to-powerpoint-continued/ The quality of your sales presentation will often determine whether a prospect buys from you or one of your competitors. However, most presentations lack pizzazz and are seldom compelling enough to motivate the other person to make a buying decision. These seven presentation tips will help you create a presentation ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/05/05/7-presentation-tips-for-making-a-presentation-that-makes-the-sale/ Seems like poor old powerpoint has been getting a bit of a bum rap of late. And is it any wonder? I’ve sat through more than my fair share of boring slides filled with clichéd clip art and masses of boring undersized text.Thing is I can’t help thinking powerpoint is ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/05/04/powerpoint-is-innocent/ PowerPoint allows you to create your own custom slides. You can change the color, the style, arrangement and so on. Another way you can customize your slides is to use a picture for the background.You can use a picture as the background image on a slide in your presentation by ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/05/04/powerpoint-2007-use-your-picture-as-a-slide-background/ As all of you know, Calgary Code Camp is tomorrow, and most of you know that Edmonton's own Steven Rockarts will be presenting on Windsor Container.  What most of you *don't* know is that Rockarts asked me to "sex up" his presentation abstract before he submitted it.  I ended up ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/05/01/how-to-write-a-presentation-abstract/ Seth Godin has a posting on what he claims to be the worst PowerPoint ever.  I've seen quite a few really bad PowerPoint slides over the years as a teacher, trainer, presenter and PowerPoint expert, so can see that this one falls well within the pool of "bad" slides.  However, ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/04/26/seth-godins-worst-ppt-ever/ Early in the morning, some students said it is not uncommon to rise and question if they need to attend their lectures for the day, weighing the benefits of class attendance versus a day of relaxation and enjoying the spring air. Anything, even something small or negligible, can deter a ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/04/24/microsoft-powerpoint-how-powerful-is-it/ Filling in a hole in its Google Apps suite, Google has acquired Tonic Systems, which provides a set of tools for the online editing, viewing, and sharing of presentations created with Microsoft PowerPoint. Tonic Systems describes itself as "Java PowerPoint Specialists." Google says it will incorporate Tonic's technology into a ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/04/21/google-buys-powerpoint-editor/ After yesterday’s post about PowerPoint, my wife and I have had a lengthy discussion about using PowerPoint in class. She teaches education classes at Ohio State so we are always stealing each other’s material. She is going to use my Google PowerPoint on Monday when she introduces searching to her ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/04/09/powerpoint-as-notes/ And now for something completely different. How about embedding Powerpoint presentations into your Blog?Visit SlideAware, and create a free account. Download the Powerpoint Plug-In, and install it to Powerpoint.After creating your Powerpoint Presentation, you can save it to SlideAware. And it is very easy to embed it into your blog.Source: ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/04/09/powerpoint-presentation-in-your-blog/ One of the key choices you make when developing your presentation slides is what fonts to use and how to use them. Here are some guidelines to help you use fonts effectively in your next presentation.Font CategoriesThere are three basic categories of fonts: Serif, Sans-Serif and Script. Here is a ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/04/02/how-to-select-and-use-fonts-on-presentation-slides/ Presentations. One of the most prevalent forms of persuasion technology. Powerpoint presentation saves a ton of time compared to overhead projectors and whiteboards. The ease of use has also been an influencing factor for professionals like business people, educators and trainers. It caters well to the needs and desires of ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/04/02/8-steps-to-a-good-powerpoint-presentation/ Toufee is an online Flash movie builder that aims to make it easy for non technical users to quickly create impressive multimedia items for embedding in web pages. Toufee allows you to create flash movies, flash banners, flash e-cards, flash tickers and flash presentations easily without having any knowledge of ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/04/01/toufee-create-and-publish-flash-movies-and-presentations-online/ Source: www.youtube.com http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/03/29/dont-read-from-your-powerpoint-slides-video/ PowerPoint is the cause of how many deaths, lost jobs, and business downfalls?!? <-- *insert scoff there* I understand that PowerPoint is not the best presentation tool for anything that you aren’t going to keep funny, short, and sweet. Yet, I think that Professor Tufte was a bit over the ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/03/26/powerpoints-dreadful-record/ In a Writing Tune-Up seminar yesterday, a participant named Carl shared some good advice on creating PowerPoint presentations. We were talking about the wisdom of communicating recommendations and conclusions near the beginning of email--not the end--so that people read them. That is when Carl pointed out that the same principle ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/03/25/powerpoint-tip-conclude-at-the-beginning/ Last week we conducted an Instructor Development course, which will be the subject of a future blog article. However, during a discussion that we had about the use of multimedia aids, I pointed out that you could elect to shut off the “black screen” that comes up at the end ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/03/19/the-alpha-and-omega-of-a-powerpoint-presentation/ If you are anything like me, you design PowerPoint presentations using guides. Guides help you place items (text, pictures, etc.) on each slide with much greater precision. They also help keep placement consistent from slide to slide within the presentation. You want to design using guides in PowerPoint 2007? ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/03/09/powerpoint-2007-guides/ If you have an outline in Word, you can easily transfer the information to PowerPoint to create a quick presentation. First, you must have an outline in Word format. Your Word outline will need to have Heading styles used to distinguish the different levels. It also works if you ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/03/08/word-outline-to-powerpoint-presentation/ Whether you agree or disagree with the viewpoint of former Vice-President Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth" presentation and movie, as a presenter there are some key lessons you should take away from a presentation that has become more popular than almost any other presentation in recent memory, ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/03/04/presentation-lessons-from-an-inconvenient-truth/ In a discussion with Dr. Pavel Samsonov, a professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the topic of invisible buttons came up. I had encountered them before, so I thought I would explain. Invisible buttons are AutoShapes with no fill and ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/02/27/create-invisible-buttons-updated-for-powerpoint-2007/ If you have been adding shadows to your text in PowerPoint 2007, you may find problems animating them. For instance, when you add an entrance effect (Fade) to the text, the text fades in while its shadow does not. The solution to this would be making a habit to ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/02/25/powerpoint-2007-shadow-not-animating-with-text/ I ran across this great product called StandOut by Electric Rain. It is a presentation program, like Keynote or Powerpoint, which takes full advantage of the new display capabilities of Windows Vista and I must admit, I’m impressed. I even went as far as to sign up to Beta ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/02/24/standout-powerpoint-killer/ I often wonder what meetings and presentations were like in the business world before there was PowerPoint. I believe that PowerPoint can be effective when used properly, but why is it that 95% of all presentations are boring with some monotone person standing in front of the room reading off ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/02/23/the-no-presentation-rule-for-presentations/ As someone who helps co-organize WebVisions every year and with my experience in speaking at conferences (not that I am an expert at it) I am often asked for advice on presenting at conferences. There are thousands of sites out there that provide information for doing presentations, some really ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/02/21/top-five-articles-for-presenters/ Let’s talk about sales presentations. In the corporate world, everybody presents. And almost everybody sucks at it. The standard behavior is to display dozens of slides crammed with as many bullets as possible, and then to read each bullet aloud as if the audience were illiterate. Sales reps have a ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/02/18/avoiding-%e2%80%9cdeath-by-powerpoint%e2%80%9d/ How effective are you at delivering a powerful group presentation? The truth is that more and more salespeople and sales managers/executives are required to make a formal presentation to a group of prospects or customers. How well do you do? What grade would you give yourself? A, B, C, D ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/02/14/group-presentation-problems/ So you are a hotshot who doesn’t need to use a mouse!  Fair enough, power users tend to find they can do tasks quicker by using shortcut keys.  Shortcut keys are combinations of keystrokes on your keyboard that can make the program do a certain task. The new Ribbon UI in ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/01/21/shortcut-keys-in-powerpoint-2007-word-2007-excel-2007/ Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates both gave big keynote addresses last week. So how did their messages compare? At the suggestion of a reader, we ran the text of both speeches through the tag-cloud generator, a program that displays the most commonly used words in varying ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2007/01/17/bill-gates-and-steve-jobs-keynote-text-analysis/ Does the thought of making a PPT get your palms all sweaty?Well, you can change that. Here, we tell you how to hone your presentation skills, so that you look forward to it instead of approach it with dread.For those who are lost, PPT is an abbreviation for the PowerPoint ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/31/how-to-make-a-great-powerpoint-presentation/ When making use of PowerPoint in your presentation, it is very important to first choose the right projector for the presentation. There are hundreds of projectors in the market nowadays, and the new buyer lies in a dilemma on which projector to buy! So it is better to use these ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/31/tips-on-choosing-the-right-projector-for-powerpoint-2/ One reason presenters pack slides with too much text and information is that they claim that since they will be printing the slides as their handout, they will need the audience to have the detail for future reference. But what happens is that the barrage of information on the slide ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/30/powerpoint-tip-detailed-handouts-without-packed-slides/ A PowerPoint presentation is used as a visual aid when making a presentation. It is easy to learn and use, thereby making it easy to be misused or not to be used effectively. So to prevent this, it is always better to follow these tips when making a PowerPoint presentation. ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/23/top-10-tips-to-improve-your-powerpoint-presentation/ Microsoft just released to manufacturing (RTM) Office 2007, which includes PowerPoint 2007 and is expected to be available to the general public at the end of January 2007. How does this release impact Articulate Presenter? The short answer is that the Articulate Presenter System Requirements have ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/22/articulate-presenter-office-2007/ This post is not about the educational benefits of digital storytelling. Much has been written about this by such experts in the field as Joe Lambert and Bernajean Porter. My focus is on the storyboarding process and more specifically how to record this process.Digital Storytelling is not about the end product - ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/22/zohoshow-for-digital-storyboarding/ I’ve talked about what an important element effective communications is at work. Whether you are an executive who must drill corporate strategies into the psyche of the company, or you are a mentor, acting as a guide for a young employee, or your are just having an average conversation with your ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/22/how-to-give-a-presentation-with-confidence-and-flair-prepare-practice-peace/ Note - this is written just to help. I know I'm not a perfect presenter - but I just wanted to share a few tips for other potential speakers out there... Bump up your editor's font size. Bump it till it looks big. Then double it. Learn how to maximize the ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/22/a-few-presentation-tips/ 15th,December, 2006 - Wondershare , the global award-winning provider of presentation solutions, today announced that its product, PPT2Flash2007, will be compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista™, PowerPoint 2007, and Firefox 2. PPT2Flash2007 is the tool for sales and marketing personnels, E-learning developers, ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/22/ppt2flash-ready-for-window-vista-powerpoint-2007-ie7-and-firefox/ Microsoft Office 2004 Pro for MAC Full Version Retail Box Welcome to Microsoft® Office X Professional - a fully native program designed specifically for Mac OS X that harnesses the power of Office, the simplicity of Macintosh, and the stability of UNIX. Office 2004 for Mac has been completely redesigned ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/22/microsoft-office-2004-pro-for-mac-full-version-retail-box/ Take advantage of your opening You have the highest interest at the beginning and end of your presentation. George Morrisey first put forth the Retention Curve principle, and it’s a good one you can use to your advantage. So open strong by using these six sure-fire methods: 1. ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/20/6-dos-to-open-your-presentation/ PowerPlugs for PowerPoint — revolutionary presentation software plugins for Microsoft PowerPoint! - The ideal tools for creating more memorable presentations! - PowerPlugs for PowerPoint work right inside of PowerPoint! - You'll make a great impression on every audience! - They products are easy to use. Some take just 2 or 3 clicks! The PowerPlugs ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/19/energize-powerpoint-presentations/ As of its manufacture date, mid-November 2007, PowerPoint 2007 has a few known problems. Links to Excel items may break: Error message when you try to update a link in a PowerPoint 2007 presentation: "Some linked files were unavailable and can't be updated" If you save your PowerPoint 2007 presentation to PowerPoint 97-2003 ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/19/powerpoint-2007-bugs/ PowerPoint presentations can be informative and eye-catching, conveying information in a unique and memorable way. Unfortunately, most PowerPoint presentations are also very large files that can cause major sending, storage and bandwidth issues. PowerPoint compression tools offer a way to more easily distribute large PowerPoint presentations without sacrificing image quality ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/19/the-applications-of-powerpoint-presentation-compression/ No, you can’t do it automatically and it is kind of a pain in the butt. After a lot of trial and error I have my method down, so I thought I would share it with you all. 1. Use KeepVid to download the YouTube video as an .flv file. 2. PPT ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/15/how-to-embed-youtube-videos-in-powerpoint/ In last weeks AAM I made everyone aware of two other great questions in desperate need for an answer. As always, our reliable readers were there to save the day and user WAWA has finally received his answer. The question? Simply put, WAWA’s wife is a philosophy teacher who needed ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/12/aam-classroom-presentation-which-solution/ Whether you're a solo entrepreneur or the executive of a Fortune 500 company, you are often called upon to be your company's spokesperson, and the responsibility of spreading positive word of mouth depends upon your ability to present well. How do you handle this challenge?Most of us have suffered through ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/05/prevent-death-by-powerpoint-join-toastmasters/ Ritu has a Powerpoint file (in PPS format) that plays some nice background music when the whoe presentation is run in full screen mode. She wants to know of some hack that can save these embedded audio files in either WAV or MP3 format. Thought Microsoft PowerPoint offers no direct way ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/12/01/sound-powerpoint-tip-extract-audio-images-embedded-in-ppt-slides/ CounterPoint takes the omnipresent symbol of today's retail driven world -- the counter display and merges it with a PowerPoint presentation so that you can create more interactive counter displays that entertain and inform while you wait for your turn. And in this Indezine exclusive, we have Kurt Dupont who heads ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/11/30/counterpoint-conversation-with-kurt-dupont/ In the classroom, new technology is finding more important roles when it comes to educating students. More professors are creating their lectures as PowerPoint presentations, which allows them to combine visual aids with their lecture, and are using computers in other ways to run their classes. Nicholas Rauh, associate professor of foreign ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/11/29/powerpoints-role-in-the-classroom/ For IT managers, deploying Office 2007 will mean introducing change to users, many of whom will not be immediately open to adopting the new ribbon interface or figuring out the new XML file formats. To make the upgrade path easier, Microsoft has made available a number of training tools and videos ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/11/29/116/ Q: I have to present to the Board to gain approval for an increase in headcount or a significant increase in budget. How do I go about it? A: There are so just many variables in that question! If you walked in my door as a client and asked me that, ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/11/26/the-hell-that-is-public-speaking/ You are just a few clicks away from a free online test drive of the latest version of Microsoft Office programs. Take them out for a spin in this quick, easy-to-use, browser-based trial experience. The real-time test drive does not require product installation or download—it's the fastest way to try out ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/11/20/free-online-office-2007-test-drive/ By Jim Endicott, Owner/Manager of Distinction Communication, Inc. Note: Jim Endicott is a nationally-recognized executive coach, author, and speaker specializing in professional presentation messaging, design, and delivery. Jim was an award-winning columnist for "Presentations" magazine and has written for Business Week, Consulting and Selling Power. He is the co-author of ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/11/14/presenting-to-young-audiences/ It's the age-old question of presenters everywhere: "Which PowerPoint slide design should I use?" I know the feeling so well of booting PowerPoint and looking through the same old 15 tired slide designs that everyone uses, knowing full well that I would only consider using three of them. So when the PowerPoint ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/11/10/the-96000-new-powerpoint-slide-designs/ I am often asked how can you make PowerPoint interactive when presenting to a large audience of students. My standard answer is either don’t use PowerPoint for the whole session, or if you absolutely have to, then set the students a question, challenge, exercise etc either to do individually, in ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/11/09/countdown-timers-for-powerpoint/ One of the most prevalent uses of digital imagery is in PowerPoint Presentations. PowerPoint has become the most used slide show program fror teaching and training and most everyone in science will have to use it at some point. Inserting digital images and movies into PowerPoint is easy, but care ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/11/02/sizing-digital-images-for-powerpoint/ Bullying Presentation I used to hate doing PowerPoint presentations. The ones I saw had way too many words on them, were boring, and were a pain to read. That was less than a year ago. Today, thanks to Garr Reynolds of www.garrreynolds.com and his blog, Presentation Zen, I'm able to prepare ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/11/01/presentations-powerpoint-and-keynote/ Phil Rosenthal was a writer and producer for “Everybody Loves Raymond’ for its entire nine-year run. He has a new book out called “You’re Lucky You’re Funny”. I read the review on the book and liked what I read about how he incorporates humor into his show. His secret is ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/10/30/humor-in-presentations/ …..because everyone else’s are. Simple. I’ve been chewing over this question quite a lot this week (yes, okay, I’m sad but voice & presentation skills training is what I do) but it was brought to mind particularly by the (very good) speech by Tony Blair and the (excellent) speech given ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/10/16/103/ I personally do not use the Presenter View, but I do run many presentations in a similiar format - with slideshow on the secondary monitor/projector and PowerPoint in edit mode on the primary monitor. Just like Presenter View, animations can be problematic. Each slide redraws in the edit mode and while ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/10/09/extended-and-smoother-animations/ Intriguing new Web 2.0 site for sharing presentation slideshows, SlideShare.net, went live this week. Currently in invite-only beta (natch), the site enables you to upload PowerPoint or OpenOffice slideshows of up to 20MB in size and then, in their words, "share with a link, embed in a blog, discover interesting ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/10/07/share-powerpoint-presentations-online/ The name of category is "PowerPoint", but now we speak about programs which pretend to substitute it. "PowerPoint" has a lot of competitors. PowerPoint is the leader now, but recently appeared a new category of programs for creating presentations. Let's talk about it. Not a secret that there are a lot ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/09/12/online-presentation-builders-review/ I've just come back from a gruelling week of corporate meetings, a 5 day marathon of seemingly never ending PowerPoint presentations. As the person in charge of marketing and IT, part of my job is to be the contact point for all of the attendees, folks ranging from 1st year ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/09/09/8-mistakes-while-creating-powerpoint-presentations/ Not so much a Tablet PC need, but for one those who are tasked with transforming PowerPoint presentations to other formats. I was givend a HUGE PowerPoint file, and told to use the images inside for a web site. Not wanting to ask for the originals (you can insert your own ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/09/06/extracting-images-from-powerpoint-2/ Don’t get me wrong. I love Apple’s Keynote program. In fact, this was the very program that got me to consider switching from my PC in the first place. But now, after using Keynote for almost 18 months, I have to admit that sometimes PowerPoint is the better choice. In general, ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/09/03/keynote-or-powerpoint-pick-the-right-tool-for-the-job/ Turn your browser into an advanced presentation tool using Opera Show, an impressive feature of the Opera browser. Learn to master Opera Show and save work and hassle when giving presentations from your computer! Compared to other popular presentation tools (such as Microsoft PowerPoint), Opera Show has several advantages: • It is ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/08/28/opera-show-web-presentations-as-html/ «Your honor, may I speak?» «For God’s sake, yes — go on!» says the judge, so astonished and mixed up he didn’t know what he was about hardly. Then Tom he stood there and waited a second or two — that was for to work up an «effect,» as he calls it — then he started in just as cam?s as ever, and says… Tom Sawyer Detective, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) If you read books about Tom ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/08/22/the-main-secret-of-tom-sawyers-presentation/ Just this week CNET has posted a very good review of PowerPoint 2007. It is in a quick read format that is comprised of 12 topics, each with a screen capture and few paragraph description. Take a few minutes and click through this informative overview here. Source: http://pptblog.tlccreative.com/index.php/all/2006/... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/08/21/cnet-review-of-powerpoint-2007/ There are 2 different categories in our site: “PowerPoint” and “Presentation skills”. I don’t know exactly in what category publish this article. Why? Because the humor and good jokes is important for your presentation. And it’s very important for your speech too. Don’t be boring. It’s the most terrible that may be ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/08/17/serious-presentation-humor-is-necessary/ Background is important part of presentation's appearance. PowerPoint have a lot of backgrounds, but I don't know why, people loves boring blue backgrounds. 90% of presentations I ever seen have standard blue PowerPoint background. It’s boring! I entered in Yandex “download presentation ppt” in Russian. Look at the first presentation in search results:  If ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/08/16/unique-background-for-powerpoint-presentation/ Sometimes we need to show large difficult scheme like this one: What we can do? Put all in one slide? It will be small. But, who says we have only standart slide? We have a lot of place around it! Look: Using animation we show our scheme in parts. Like this: This method ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/08/15/large-scheme-in-powerpoint-presentation/ OK, now things are getting weird. One Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image. It’s so incredibly obvious, it reminds me of the faked CBS memos. Smoke ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/08/15/reuters-doctoring-photos-from-beirut/ There are 2 types of presentations: 1. Commercial These presentations created to bring money. And so for it creation is logically to put up money. But there are a lot of world famous companies which use presentations as main tool for sales, but their presentations aren’t correct and sometimes are terrible. Example: http://download.oracle.com/oowsf2005/997.pdf Common ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/08/14/the-purpose-of-presentation/ Steve Jobs (Apple) and Bill Gates (Microsoft) Try to uderstand who is who in this small picture? I help you. Bill Gates have a slide with a lot of text. Font is too small, we can't read it. Headers are in different levels... Can you continue? Can you describe Microsoft style? But ... http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/08/13/steve-jobs-vs-bill-gates/ Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, a powerful presentation program, you can quickly create dynamic, great-looking presentations using the new results-oriented interface, SmartArt Graphics capabilities, and formatting tools. http://www.microsoft.com/ It's not a secret PowerPoint is the most popular program for presentation creation. There are useful advices, interstig articles and advices in "PowerPoint" category. http://www.aroup.com/en/news/2006/08/12/about-%e2%80%9cpowerpoint%e2%80%9d-category/