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Autodesk University 2011 Day 0 – The Media Day #AU2011

The “day before Day One” kicked off with a media session packed with information. I’ll post in more detail when time allows but an overview will give some impression of the material covered: Chris Bradshaw (SVP and Chief Marketing Officer) covered Autodesk’s approach to traditional markets and the emergence of cloud and consumer markets. From small beginnings in the days of mainframe, minicomputers design technology has grown enormously as PCs brought computing power to the desktop. Cloud computing, storage will accelerate that to the point where computing & mobile devices could outnumber their human masters. If that sounds extreme consider... Read more →

Ellen Finkelstein’s Presentation Slide Design Webinar

AutoCAD & Powerpoint writer, blogger, speaker Ellen Finkelstein has shared a free web presentation on Presentation Slide Design, previewing an upcoming webinar series. It is based on PowerPoint but the concepts apply to any presentation application. Probably too late for your Autodesk University Presentation, I hope!, but well worth viewing. (This slide isn’t Ellen’s!) Free Webinar: Slide Design for Non-Designers - Ellen Finkelstein Many people can't afford a designer and find it hard to design slides well. In this free webinar, I show you how to create great looking slides, even if you're artistically challenged and don't have a lot... Read more →

Microsoft Office Web Applications are Live, on SkyDrive

The Microsoft Office Web applications went live, on Live, today. I’ve only had a brief look but first impressions are pretty good. Live goes Office or Office goes Live? From Office.live.com (* see footnote if not in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland) you get access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The files are hosted on Microsoft Skydrive which currently offers 25GB of free storage. They feel like basic Office 2010 applications with all you need to create, view, edit and share documents in the current Office xml based formats (old documents are migrated to .docx .xlsx ,pptx etc).... Read more →

Presenting with Powerpoint, more to it than just great slides

Olivia Mitchell has great advice on how to deliver a PowerPoint based presentation that stands out from the crowd... Little-used methods to make the delivery of your PowerPoint stand out There’s a revolution in the design of PowerPoint slides, but not the delivery. Most speakers still rely on their slides to cue them. They click, they talk, click, talk, click, talk… Here are five methods that will make the delivery of your PowerPoint presentation stand out... Read more →

MindManager 8 Integrated Microsoft Office Editing

MindManager maps are often used to reference information in other documents. Traditionally this has been achieved with a topic link to a file or use of "smart" map parts to incorporate information (Ou... Read more →

A Multi-Screen PowerPoint World

This tip from the PowerPoint Team Blog shows how to use “Arrange All” with a wide/multi-screen display to work more efficiently in PowerPoint. The PowerPoint Team Blog : Quick Try This: It's a M... Read more →

Faultless typing in live demonstrations?

If you’ve watched a demonstration you’ve probably seen this! If you’ve presented you’ve done probably this! There is an alternative ! Demo shows Notepad with the ActiveWords Bar visible, i... Read more →

Don McMillan - "Technically Funny" about PowerPoint

At Autodesk University 2004 there was a sense of dread when we learned the “enteratinment” would be a former computer chip engineer comedian who did his routine with PowerPoint. Don McMillan was hi... Read more →

If you write about spam it's detected as spam

I’ve written about Rick Altman and his Corel/PowerPoint related newsletter before . They good and always worth reading. In the latest he makes some fearless forecasts including a mention about the... Read more →

Ellens PowerPoint 2007 preview

Ellen Finkelstein previews Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 with a comprehensive look at what’s new, changed, even a few things that have been removed! Review of PowerPoint 2007 PowerPoint: News and Fea... Read more →