Presentations: PowerPoint and Other Options by Jason Harrison

Places to start: FAQs, Tips, and Links

PowerPoint Association Search: Search all the PowerPoint Pages maintained and written by the experts: http://www.indezine.com/, http://www.rdpslides.com/, http://www.soniacoleman.com/, http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/, www.presentationpictures.com, http://www.powerpointanswers.com/, http://www.mvps.org/skp/, http://www.echosvoice.com/.
The PPT FAQ: This is the FAQ as a list of questions. Check here before asking on microsoft.public.powerpoint
The PowerPoint FAQ List: This is the FAQ as one long page. Check here before asking on microsoft.public.powerpoint
PowerPointAnswers.com
PowerPoint 2000 Movie Troubleshooter
Acadia's PowerPoint Resource Center
PowerPoint 2000 Tips
PowerPoint Ezine - Indezine.com
Favorite Links - Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint - Indezine.com
PowerPoint Links by Tracy Marks
Presentations Magazine
Powerpoint Tips (Screen Shots)
Computer Tips: PowerPoint (1997)
BitBetter PowerPoint Tips (2001)
ComputerImages: PowerPoint Tips (1998)
PowerPoint Resources (1998)

Tutorials

Clip Art and Images and Fonts and Movies


TheFreeSite.com is the best place to find freebies, freeware, free stuff, samples, games

Accessories: Hardware and Software

Equation Editors

MathType Home Page: Design Science is the creator of Equation Editor and a more powerful replacement, MathType.
MathType: Support
MathType: TechNote 82: Using MathType with Microsoft PowerPoint
EqMagic 2
TexPoint - A Latex add-in for Powerpoint
Creating Equations (Latex)
Mathematics on the Web: A Status Report: You may have noticed that typesetting mathematical equations is generally difficult to do. Latex is hard to learn, PowerPoint relies on plug-ins (Equation Editor), and web pages are really hard. Design Science, the creator of MathType and Equation Editor, reviews the state of math on the web from equation typesetting to demonstration applets. Published twice a year. The January 2001 issue focused on standards for math on the web. The July 2001 issue focused on distance learning which requires the ability to typeset equations.

Drawing and Painting

IrfanView A Freeware Graphic Viewer: IrfanView is a very fast FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows. The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIFF support. Features: Thumbnails, Preview, Drag & Drop Support, fast Directory View (fast moving through directory), Print Support, Scan (TWAIN) Support, Slideshow, Batch conversion, change the color depth, audio CD player, Capturing, Cut/Crop, Effects (Blur, Sharpen etc.) and many many more... Also a good list of links to graphics websites (free images, animations, etc).
GIF Construction Set Professional
Mayura Draw
SmartDraw for Flowcharts, Org Charts, Forms and Business Presentations
Windows Metafiles, guide for non-windows programmers
libwmf, library to convert wmf files
pstoedit: translate Postscript and PDF into other vector formats

Hardware

Interlink RemotePoint RF Wireless Handheld Mouse and Laser Pointer.: Omni-directional control from up to 100' away. Dedicated Slide Forward & Back buttons, presentation software effects, Launch programs, zoom or spotlight images on the screen, Hide & reveal slides, on-screen keyboard. Manufactured by Wireless Computing: Wireless Mice and Keyboards(US$300)
Gyration: Wireless Mice (US$100-200)
Mind Path Technologies: Wireless RF and infrared remotes. Windows only, require PS/2 or 9-pin serial ports, one remote works with USB ports.
Logitech: TrackMan (CDN$209)
PI Engineering: Y-see two Dual Monitor Adapter

Flashy Plug-Ins

Vox Proxy
.flashgeek....Embedding Flash in Powerpoint

Microsoft Add-ins

Producer for PowerPoint2001: "Designed for business users and enterprise media professionals, Mircosoft Producer is a free add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint version 2002 (XP). It helps you capture, synchronize, and publish sudio, video, slides and images -- resulting in engaging rich-media presentation viewable on demand in a web browser."
HTML Filter 2.0 for Office 2000
Use Office HTML Filter to Create Web Pages that Download Faster
Clone Tool -- clone a "dying" or "corrupted" presentation: Microsoft.com: Q193848 - PPT: Cloning Presentation
Q194578 - SAMPLE: MULTIMON.EXE Uses Multiple Monitors in Visual Basic

Non-Microsoft Utilities

Dual Monitor/Projector PPT Controller
Some Features You May Need on Your Computer: Ha Ha Ha
Image Importer Wizard for 97/2000/XP Version 2.1: Insert multiple images into new/existing slides of a presentation using user defined designed template. Images can be mapped on to a user defined layout. Images take attributes of the shapes. Image(s) can be positioned, linked, embedded, saved with presentation while linking. Define the sequence in which the images have to be imported. Set the Z-order position of image when importing into existing presentation. Image(s) can be set as the background to a slide - tiled or stretched. A specified folder and it's sub folders can be searched or you could create a list of folders to search in. Wildcards can be used for file searches. Multiple sets supported in same session. Most of the commonly used image formats can be imported. Quick, simple and saves a lot of your productivity time, time saved is money earned. Loads as an add-in in PowerPoint and is fully integrated with the Office Assistant. All the specified criteria can be re-used if you save it as a Named setting. US$35.
PC Magazine's WinPointer 2: Highlight screen areas for presentations - PC Magazine: If you'd like a thicker line for "scrawling" on the screen, and would like to draw a line, rectangle, ellipse, text, highlight or more both in AND outside of PowerPoint WinPointer 2 is what you're looking for.
A Better Index from PowerPoint 97 Generated Slide Shows: If you use PPT97, and File>Save as HTML, this program will give you a nicer index page for your presentation with small images of each of the slides.
RnR PPTools: Starter Kit is free. You can also purchase: PPT2HTML - The PowerPoint to HTML Convertor; PowerPoint Image Exporter; PowerPoint Palette; Powerpoint Presetnation Optimizer and PowerPoint Protect.
PPTools PPT2HTML - Indezine.com, PowerPoint: Reviews of the the PPTools.
Autorun CD Project Creator: Create self running presentations that are burned to CDs.
Presentation Librarian
Office 3D -- PowerPoint presentation tools

Competing Presentation Software

Corel Presentation 9: Create Web-ready slide shows, multimedia presentations and interactive demos. Note: The free electronic software distribution (ESD) version of Corel Presentations 9 is available only as an individual download. The download contains a complete version of the award-winning application.
ChurchMedia.net - Media Ministry Training Graphics Worship Software
Lotus Freelance Graphics
Presentations with Latex PDF Classroom An Example of using Latex, Java and Acrobat to create nifty presentations. Computational Intelligence - Overhead Transparencies An example of lectures create with Latex and translated to PDF using Acrobat Distiller. xdvi for presentations Use xdvi for presentations -- here's how. PPower4 Add transitions and animation to Latex documents that are translated in to PDF. Seminar, a package from Timothy van Zandt to make slides Simulate PowerPoint using Latex. Shaded background, hyperlinks, images, moving bullets, transistions... Adobe Acrobat Convert Postscript and other document formats to PDF. Use either printer drivers to convert, or use Acrobat Distiller. EqMagic from MicroPress Use EqMagic to create equations using Latex markup. TeXPower Use TeXPower with PowerPoint to either translate latex markup into symbol/math fonts for inline equations, or in combination with MikTeX create typeset equations in PowerPoint. Utopia Precision Typesetting: Using PDF Utopia Precision Typesetting: Free Samples Utopia Precision Typesetting: PDF Presentations

UBC and PPT

UBC Media Group
ABC Photocolour
UBC Logo - UBC Public Affairs

Examples and Miscellaneous

BlueDrekar: Bluetooth on Linux
Myers Briggs Presentation
Focus Groups
Students for a Free Tibet
Summaries and Action Plans
Physics 153 - Winter98 - Section 001
Are E-mail survey results comparable to Telephone surveys?
Cataloguing Cartographic Materials
Thomas Froese; Publications Index
Canadian Economic History
Celebrating 80 Years of Nursing Education
Break-Up Made Easier With Colorful Visual Aids
Hand Shadows
PowerPoint Easter Eggs
Demotivators? - from Despair, Inc.
EDS Super Bowl Commercials
Dr Fun: Darth Vader Presentation
3-D Human Movement Symposium - Cape Town presentations
http://www.uwm.edu:80/People/ceil/systems/classpresentations.html
Econ 443 syllabus

Misc

Gallery of Data Visualization: The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics
PowerPoint XP - Indezine.com, PowerPoint
Should I get PowerPoint 2002?
Quicktime: Microsoft vs Apple
Q235950 - PPT2000: Unable to Insert QuickTime Movies
Computer Features (funny)

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Last modified: Sun May 27 12:05:34 2001.

Presentations: PowerPoint and Other Options by Jason Harrison

Places to start: FAQs, Tips, and Links

Programming with PowerPoint using Visual Basic

Tutorials

Colour and Visual Design

Scanning

PC to Mac

Pushing the Limits of "Normal" PowerPoint

Learning PPT from "scratch" Tutorials

Presentation Tips

Clip Art and Images and Fonts and Movies

Clip Art and Images

Fonts

Movies

Accessories: Hardware and Software

Equation Editors

Drawing and Painting

Hardware

Flashy Plug-Ins

Microsoft Add-ins

Non-Microsoft Utilities

Competing Presentation Software

Presentations with Latex

UBC and PPT

Examples and Miscellaneous

Misc