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The PowerPoint Ezine - 29
by Geetesh Bajaj
Contents
PowerPoint 2003 Overview
Microsoft Releases PowerPoint 2003 Viewer, Legacy Templates
Quick News
Focus on Powr Pointer 2 Remote Mouse
eHelp Announces RoboPresenter
Color Schemes in PowerPoint 2002/03
Events and Seminars
PowerPoint 2003 Overview
Indezine's complete look at the new features in PowerPoint 2003
is now available at:
http://www.indezine.com/pp2003/
The entire overview has been divided into 20 screens:
- New Viewer
- Package to CD
- Faster and More Responsive
- Tablet PC Support
- New Pens
- Windows Media Player Integration
- Full Screen Movies
- Media Playlist Support
- Research Pane
- Thesaurus
- Integrated Help
- Office Online
- Shift F5, Better Bitmap Export
- Smart Tags
- Save presentations to SharePoint
- Reviewing and Sharing
- Integrated IRM
- Producer 2003
- Features Removed
- End Note
Here's the link:
http://www.indezine.com/pp2003/
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Microsoft Releases PowerPoint 2003 Viewer, Legacy
Templates
The new PowerPoint 2003 Viewer is now available for download from
the Microsoft site:
PowerPoint 2003 Viewer Download
Here's a quote from the Viewer announcement made by Richard Bretschneider,
Lead Program Manager for PowerPoint on the PowerPoint public newsgroup:
Back in April I wrote to tell you about an exciting new PowerPoint
Viewer we were working on. Its my pleasure now to announce that
we finished work a short while ago, and that it is today available
for download.
This new viewer has been engineered to support a number of
new features from our last few releases that were missing in
the PowerPoint '97 Viewer.
Specifically, we've added support for the new animation effects,
simultaneous animations, and transitions. We've also added a
number of
non-animation features, such as opening password protected documents. A new
twist here is that this viewer requires no installation, no setup of any kind,
and can run directly from write-protected media like CDs. This was very important
as the new viewer is a big part of the Package for CD feature in Microsoft
Office PowerPoint 2003, which I hope you'll check out when it becomes available
in a few weeks. We're very happy with the results and hope you will be as well.
Thank you, Richard.
In addition, Microsoft also released three separate template packs
for PowerPoint 2003 were released so that all legacy designs (more
than 120 of them) from PowerPoint 4.0 to PowerPoint 2000 are available
in addition to the designs that are included with PowerPoint 2003.
PowerPoint Templates Pack 1
PowerPoint Templates Pack 2
PowerPoint Templates Pack 3
Quick News
Impatica has updated its Impatica and OnCue products to
version 2.5.1 - new improvements for the PowerPoint to Java rich
media converter include support for text and HTML output of PowerPoint
notes making them suitable for screen readers. Request
an evaluation copy here...
PowerPoint Live, being held at Tucson AZ from October 12
to 15, 2003 is a three-day event that includes seminars, workshops,
hands-on technical support and keynote addresses covering virtually
every topic of interest to the PowerPoint user community. More
info...
CrystalGraphics' new Ultimate Combo 12 suite of PowerPlugs
add-ins for PowerPoint includes 12 titles - 31 volumes in all on
10 CDs. In addition you receive the RemotePoint Navigator, a US$149
value as a free gift. The entire suite costs US$499, thus providing
you savings of 66% over the combined retail price of individual
titles. More
info...
Adobe announced new versions of their product range including
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive and Acrobat. The new versions
would form part of the Adobe Creative Suite and individual
products would be suffixed by the term CJ to reflect the new nomenclature,
as in Photoshop CJ. The actual products are expected to ship in
November 2003. More
info...
Anystream, who create the Agility Presenter product
has been named one of three Rising Stars in Deloitte & Touche’s
Technology Fast 50 Program for Virginia. More
info...
You can now syndicate content from Indezine for free to
mirror at your site or use in any other mutually acceptable way
- learn more...
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Focus on Powr Pointer 2 Remote Mouse
The Powr Pointer 2 Remote Mouse is an ergonomically designed
wireless, fully functional, Radio Frequency remote mouse that has
a built-in laser pointer and 64 independent channels.
More info...
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eHelp Announces RoboPresenter
San Diego based eHelp Corporation has announced RoboPresenter,
a product that allows desktop conversion of PowerPoint presentations
to Flash based rich media content.
RoboPresenter inserts a new menu in PowerPoint that adds new features
such as interactive quizzes to the RoboPresenter output content.
The RoboPresenter product has been licensed from Articulate Global,
Inc. and works seamlessly inegrated with RoboDemo, eHelp's simulation
and demo software. More
info...
Color Schemes in PowerPoint 2002/03
Any PowerPoint presentation (including templates) can store several
color schemes - these are a set of predetermined color choices
for various presentation elements like text, background, fill,
shadow, hyperlink, etc. To create and change color schemes, you
need to get to the Color Schemes task pane:
- Choose Format | Slide Design. This will activate the Slide
Design task pane.
- Click the Color Schemes option on this pane to open the relevant
task pane.
In this pane, you'll find a few thumbnails representing color
schemes available within the active presentation. Each thumbnail
shows a preview of the color selected for text, background, fill
and bulleted items. In addition, you can also see a small chart
with four bars - these bars show the default colors for new charts
that you create within the presentation. In addition, the four
colors also represent the default colors for fills, accents, hyperlinks
and followed hyperlinks - exactly in that order from left to right.
To create or edit a color scheme:
- Select any of the default color schemes by clicking the relevant
thumbnail. Thereafter, click the 'Edit Color Schemes…' option
- it's in the footer area of the Color Schemes task pane.
- This will open the 'Edit Color Scheme' dialog box - double-click
each color box to go to the Fill Color dialog box. Change colors
for all eight options.
- To save as a new color scheme, click the 'Add As Standard
Scheme' button - to replace a current scheme, just click 'Apply'.
- You just created or edited a color scheme.
You apply color schemes just like you apply masters - select individual
or all slides - choose a color scheme and opt to apply to all or
selected slides in the contextual fly-out menu.
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Events & Seminars
PowerPoint Live
October 12 to 15, 2003
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Rick Altman, R Altman Digital Consulting
http://www.pptlive.com/
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Credits
During the preparation of this issue of the PowerPoint Ezine,
I received assistance, content or feedback from Adam Schwartz,
Darian Germain, Jeanne Pairman and Nicole Ha, (all in alphabetical
order). I would like to use this platform to thank them for their
help.
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