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PowerPoint 2007 is fantastic!

 

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 introduces a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to create, present and organize presentations.

Here I'll share my treasures about PowerPoint with you all.

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PowerPoint 2007 Introduction 

PowerPoint 2007 enables users to quickly create high-impact, dynamic presentations while integrating review workflows and ways to easily share this information. From the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface to the new graphics and formatting capabilities, PowerPoint 2007 puts the control in your hands to create great-looking presentations.

More information at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/default.aspx

Retailers, Make a Knockout Flash Presentation for Another Christmas Boom 

At the end of every year, most retailers would like to bet their sales fortune on Christmas shopping season. Everyone knows that it always will be Christmas boom for online or offline retailing. Yet there're a lot of great opportunities to make an effective promotion when holiday season comes. In order to attract prospective customers at the critical first impression, appealing presentations is important to presenting your products in the best light possible.

For both online or offline usages, Flash presentation could be an appropriate form. It can be embedded in Web pages, played on Digital Signage and sent as Christmas brochure within business e-mail. As Flash is the ultimate output, we should set up more engaging content to outstand the products.

General Points on Starting a Great Presentation

The objective of product presentation is different depending upon the target audience and the presentation should be adjusted accordingly. It is important to know your audience and why they are interested enough to view your presentation.

Therefore a proper preparation is vital definitely. Before you even start building your presentation, be sure you know the following information:
1. Objective action - At the end of your product presentation you want something to happen;
2. Target audience - Who are you giving the presentation to?
3. Orientation - How much does your audience know of your product and other similar products?
4. Target presenter - What will be the way giving the presentation?

It is helpful to write the above information down before building the product presentation so that you can review it if you get stuck on any given point. You will want to refer to it later to make sure the presentation meets the objective and you will also need it for doing practice runs.

It is important to have a target audience and a target objective when building the initial presentation. Failure to do so can result in a presentation that doesn't speak to the audience and one that is not focused on their needs.

Outline of Making Proper Product Presentation

The following is a basic outline for a product presentation. Since product presentation is not like other presentations, you will note that it should be simple with emphatic product each slide. It is important to keep your presentation focused on products otherwise your point will be drowned out in too many details.

There're some general outlines of product presentation:
1. Introduction - This is normally just a title slide where the author introduces its brand with logo or something to impress your image;
2. Agenda - An agenda is optional, but provides you with an opportunity to tell your audience what you are going to cover in your show;
3. Retailer Information - This is a way to establish credibility and to make the audience feel comfortable with your company;
4. Product description - Clearly describe your product in terms that your audience will understand. Actual object images may be used in presentation;
5. Clearly articulated benefits as they relate to your target audience, and the words must be simple;
6. Examples/successes - At this point in the presentation your audience will be glad to see some testimonials and recommendations by others;
7. Closing argument - This is your opportunity for a "call to action". Ask your audience to move up.

Your Approach to Key Improvements

You can think of adding some additions to enhance your presentation, but there're still some elements which could be improved. Using more examples, simplify your words, applying easy-to-read fonts and choosing suitable theme styles.

As we use PowerPoint as general presentation tool certainly, generating Flash output could be the last stop to complete your masterpiece. And it also improves your presentation more friendly, because of the popularity and compatibility of Flash Player. Choose an awesome presentation tool to help your business, such as Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional at http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.html. It's really worthy to evaluate and it will work as the best partner for any business presentations. The PowerPoint to Flash is the most important part besides appealing content, you must make a good choice.

A great product presentation could be the power for your Christmas boom. Use all effective tools and resources as you can to drive up your Christmas business.

PowerPoint Presentation to the Web: The Complete Guide 

Love it or not, Microsoft PowerPoint is here to stay around your life, even though Web presentation is so hot these days. Most people won't give up PowerPoint in a few of years, because we've invested large amounts of time and talents in creating PowerPoint slide shows to express ourselves before. In the Internet 2.0 times, weak Web accessibility is the key drawback of PowerPoint definitely. This guide will help you make your online presentation alright from here.

Where Should PowerPoint to the Web Start From?

In PowerPoint, you can directly save your presentation as Web pages. You can read more from Microsoft at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HP052667841033.aspx. That's the easiest way to make PowerPoint to Web. However, it's really not recommended. Because its framework layout with scripts is unfriendly to most browsers, and its static slides show without any effects such as transitions and animations is dull to most visitors.

So what is the best approach to make Web pages for online presentation? At first, there are three essential requirements for a great solution of PowerPoint to the Web:
1. Retain animations, transitions and other effects from originals;
2. Easy to be embedded in Web pages without conflict;
3. Protect the author copyrights from being copied.

Make Attractive Online Presentation out of PowerPoint

Since inserting and embedding a PowerPoint presentation into Web pages is not applicable, we may think about what is better way to make online presentation. As we know, Flash is the most popular media to be embedded into Web pages, so we can ask for a help from Flash. Actually, the key advantage of Flash is its great Web accessibility. Therefore PowerPoint to Flash is an applicable way to make the things alright.

In order to convert PowerPoint to Flash, a appropriate converter is important. Most free converter may not do a good job, which just outputs static Flash slide show without animations like PowerPoint itself. So I suggest that you can have a free trial of some great PowerPoint to Flash tool such as Wondershare PPT2Flash at http://www.sameshow.com/download/ppt2flash-download.html.

After installation, launch PowerPoint and you'll find PPT2Flash in menu bar. Then import the presentation, configure the Publish Settings in Wondershare PPT2Flash or add rich media to the presentation with "Record narration", "Import Audio", "Insert Flash" and "Capture Screen" features. Finally click "Publish" to get the output. Just a few of clicks, why not have a trial?







Embed Presentation to the Web Pages As You Like

The last chapter before finale is making a home for your attractive presentation online. If you already have private Web space, that's the best house for hosting. If not, search for some shared online storage services such as Box.net (http://www.box.net). You would insure that your online space is safe and big enough to store your masterpieces. When uploading is done, copy the URL of the uploaded file.

Now all you need to do is setting up some simple HTML codes to place your Flash presentation into any Web pages. You may read a tutorial from W3 School (http://www.w3schools.com/flash/flash_inhtml.asp), or directly use the codes below:

<object enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" allowScriptAccess="never" allownetworking="internal" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="URL of the uploaded Flash file" height="xxx" width="xxx" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="URL of the uploaded Flash file" />
<param name="allownetworking" value="internal" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="enableJSURL" value="false" />
<param name="enableHREF" value="false" />
<param name="saveEmbedTags" value="true" />
</object>

Please note that "URL of the uploaded Flash file" in the codes should be full URL of your uploaded Flash. And the value of height and width depends on your needs.

In whether offline Web page editor or online blog editor, you need to switch to HTML source editing mode, and then simply copy and paste your codes to complete the works.

Now you may find Web accessible PowerPoint presentation is on the show online, and PowerPoint to the Web is just a piece of cake for you. Just post your PowerPoint presentation to your Blog, Share your PowerPoint slideshow in MySpace, Facebook, GeoCites, and Google Pages, etc like this way.

New to PowerPoint 2007 When You Go Back to School? 

On the first day of heading back to school this fall, you might be surprised with new Office 2007 running on all campus computers. It's pretty great to meet the new companion. But a little time later, you will find you're the newbie to Office 2007. As throughout improvement in new Office 2007, it may crash your Office life! The most probable-to-happen trouble is that you can not view or even open the PowerPoint 2007 presentations from your teachers with older visions of PowerPoint at home. That could be an emergency to your study. So what could you do with new PowerPoint 2007?

Solution 1: Compatibility Pack or Viewer
Actually if you're trying to open a PowerPoint 2007 files in your older vision, The program will prompt "This file was created by a newer vision of Microsoft PowerPoint. Do you want to download a compatibility pack so that you can work with this file?". Otherwise you can download the "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats" directly from Microsoft's official site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en. With Microsoft's compatibility pack, you can open and view most PowerPoint 2007 files in compatibility mode.

Besides, Microsoft offers PowerPoint 2007 Viewer 2007 to simply view PowerPoint presentations. It can view most PowerPoint 2007 files without problems. You can get it directly from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en.
However, the compatibility pack and viewer can not handle all PowerPoint 2007 files properly. Sometimes the objects or the fonts are missing; sometimes it doesn't work at all. But as the official solution from Microsoft, it's worth trying.

Solution 2: Save PPTX/PPSX to PPT/PPS
There're other ways to do with PowerPoint 2007. Before you take the presentations home, you can transform the new PowerPoint 2007 files formats PPTX/PPSX to older vision files formats PPT/PPS in campus. In PowerPoint 2007, click the Office Button, point to Save As, select PowerPoint 97 - 2003 Presentation, and choose the Save as type as you want.

If you enable the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Compatibility Checker, PowerPoint will prompt for those features in your presentation which are not supported by earlier versions of PowerPoint. Once continue to save, those unsupported contents will be removed or converted to static objects in older versions.

Solution 3: Convert to Other Formats
In order to totally avoid these compatibility issues between PowerPoint versions, converting PowerPoint 2007 files to other formats is a considerable solution. You can convert all slides to a video clip or burn as a DVD movie. But I don't think that's the best choice. Since the popular Flash technology is powerful for multimedia and widely supported, converting PowerPoint presentation to Flash would be great deal. Original content, small file size and easy control in Flash are great for your presentations. You need to find some tools with genuine PowerPoint 2007 support, such as Wondershare PPT2Flash. Get free trial directly at http://www.sameshow.com/download/ppt2flash-download.html.

You may think it's not happening in your campus yet. But since Office 2007 was recommended in more and more states, your school is going to deploy it soon. Get a copy of Office 2007 now, or remember my alternative solutions above!

How to insert Flash into PowerPoint 2007 

How to insert and embed Flash into PowerPoint 2007, and make it play automatically

See also:
http://www.sameshow.com/other/insert-flash-into-powerpoint-2007.html


Ensure the Flash Player is installed on your computer, and then please follow the stejps below:

1. Click Microsoft Office Button on the top left corner > click "PowerPoint Options" at the bottom of the panel > go to the "PowerPoint Options" window > click "Popular" on the left column > select "Show Developer tab in the Ribbon" on the right column > click "OK" at the bottom





2. On the "Developer" tab > go to "Controls" group > Click the icon of hammer and nail for "More Controls" > go to the "More Controls" window



3. On the "More Controls" window > select "Shockwave Flash Object" in the list > click "OK" at the bottom > use your pointer to drag on the slide to draw and resize the control



4. Right click the control you draw > click "Properties" in the right-click menu > go to the "Properties" window



5. On the alphabetic tab > click the "Movie" property > type the full drive path in the value column (the blank cell next to Movie), including the file name (e.g. C\:a.swf) or URL (e.g. http://www.a.com/b.swf)



6. To make the Flash paly automatically when the slide is displayed, set the "Playing" property to "True"; To embed the Flash into PowerPoint, set "EmbedMovie" property to "True"

7. Finally close the "Properties" window and save your presentation.

On the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, you can click Slide Show or press F5 to preview your presentation.

An alternative solution to insert Flash into PowerPoint 2007 

Actually it's sort of troublesome to someone who needs to insert Flash into multiple sildes within PowerPoint 2007 directly. You may want to know: is there a shortcut to insert Flash like inserting other media files in PowerPoint? Probably no.

An alternative solution is using some third-party tools to achieve this, such as Wondershare PPT2Flash, which has a feature of "Insert Flash" to add Flash files instantly. Through PPT2Flash, you can directly select Flash files and manage to insert them into any slides in PowerPoint 2007 and any earlier versions.



Learn more about Wondershare PPT2Flash at
http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash.html
http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.html

And you can have a FREE TRIAL of "Insert Flash" instantly.



By the way, since Flash is widely supported by most browsers, converting PowerPoint to Flash by PPT2Flash is really convenient to share your presentations over the Internet.

see more details about converting PowerPoint 2007:
http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-2007.html

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