07 Aug 11 2 Ways to Convert Impress Presentation to DVD

Impress is part of the free office suite – OpenOffice.org which is the free alternative to Microsoft Office. Similarly, Impress is the alternative solution to make presentation for home and business usages. Here I will show you how to convert Impress presentation to DVD so that you can play any Impress presentation on any computer with a DVD drive, or on a big screen with a DVD player connected.

Method One: Full featured Impress Presentation to DVD

This solution helps you burn Impress presentations to DVD with the original features. Below is what you need:

1. A PowerPoint to DVD converter, say PPT2DVD Pro.
2. OpenOffice Impress and Microsoft PowerPoint (sure, if no, you could convert on a computer having PowerPoint)

OpenOffice Impress could first export presentation to PowerPoint compatible formats (.ppt) so that you can use a PowerPoint to DVD converter to burn Impress presentation to DVD. Below is the screenshot of PPT2DVD Pro. It supports to burn PowerPoint to DVD with all original features retained, and you could convert multiple PowerPoint presentation at a time.

Method Two: Plain Slides to DVD Slideshow

You need OpenOffice Impress and DVD Slideshow GUI to extract slide images from Impress and burn these images to DVD to achieve a pseudo Impress presentation. To use DVD Slideshow GUI to burn Impress to DVD, follow these instructions.

1. Install and run the DVD Slideshow GUI program.
2. Click the “Add Pictures and Videos” (or equivalent in other language) button in the toolbar.
3. Locate Impress file in the open browser, and click “OK”.
4. Now the program will open the selected files using Open Office Impress and might take a few minutes.
5. A dialog box will display the capture slides. You can make settings such as transition, duration, subtitle, etc.

6. Now click the Burn icon and DVD Slideshow GUI will use ImgBurn to convert presentation to DVD.
7. Wait for burning complete and all is done.

Conclusion

Method one is free of charge, but it’s not the original Impress presentation any more. Method two will cost you some money, but it will keep the original features of Impress presentation to the most extent.

21 Jul 11 PowerPoint Tips: 7 PowerPoint Sins to Avoid

PowerPoint is the predominate presentation tool in business and study. It help speakers to well transfer the information and demonstrate the result. PowerPoint is today so much widely used and misused. Each years, millions of money is wasted on annoying PowerPoint presentations. Below are the seven PowerPoint mistakes happened on many PowerPoint users. If you are guilty of any of these, enhance your PowerPoint presentations to be an responsible PowerPoint speaker to save the time and money.

7 PowerPoint Sins to Avoid

Sin 1: Too much words on a slide. Audiences have no so much time on reading your texts. Only keywords allowed: you are suggested using no more than 5 line by 5 keywords on a slide.
Sin 2: All words, no images. An image says more than a thousand words. Think about it.
Sin 3: Too many slides. The main focus should be on you, not the slides. Only write key points on a slide, not every points.
Sin 4: Wild and crazy animations. Simple animations are enough. Don’t distract the audiences by the complicated animations.
Sin 5: Using the slide presentation as the handout. The purpose of PowerPoint presentation is to enhance your oral message, not serve as the hand out copy.
Sin 6: Reading from the slides. Some speakers will take Sin 2 and this sin to the real, and usually turn their backs to the audience. Don’t do it, please.
Sin 7: Overuse laser pointer. Only user laser pointer when you have to. Like Sin 4, it will also kill your audience’s attention.

 

Tips: Want to make a presentation on a computer without PowerPoint installed. Burn PowerPoint to DVD if these exists a DVD drive.

21 Jul 11 Find PowerPoint Presentation on Computer and on Internet

PowerPoint presentation is widely used in business and in school. It’s a good way to explain, demonstrate and illustrate things to the audiences. With time goes by, many people will generate a pile of PowerPoint presentation in their computer. One problem wording with lots of PowerPoint presentations is how to find them because your forget the location or they are misplaced. This is the reason why I wrote this article.

Search PowerPoint on Computer

To standard way to find PowerPoint presentations is using the search tool of the operating system. For Windows, it’s named Search, which could be accessed from Start -> Search or press the Search button in the file explorer. If you are browsing files, simply hold down Ctrl key and press F letter to start the Search tool. For Mac users, the searching tool is called Spotlight. Spotlight is the system-wide find tool to search files, folders, and applications whose names match your search criteria, as well as files that contain your criteria within them, such as in text documents, applications, emails, calendars, and more. To use it, click the Spotlight icon in the upper-right corner of your Mac screen or press Command-Space Bar. But, in Search tool of Windows, you need to specify the path (search in My Computer for system wide PowerPoint files) to search for. To search all PowerPoint presentations on computer, type *.jpg (for Windows) or .jpg (for Mac) in the above two search tools.

Search PowerPoint Online

Unfortunately, you could not find the downloaded PowerPoint presentation on your computer and you don’t remember where to download, but the PowerPoint presentation is important to  you. Here comes the Google search. Google provides an easy and helpful syntax to search PowerPoint presentation on internet. Simply input “keyword filetype:PPT” (without quote mark) in the search box, and you can probably find PowerPoint presentation you want on internet.

Burn Important PowerPoint File to Disc

To avoid the disaster of loosing important PowerPoint presentation, you are suggested to burning PowerPoint presentation to DVD for backup and presentation. Simply download PPT2DVD Pro and it’s only 3 steps to get job done.

06 Jul 11 3 Steps to Turn Your Android Phone to PowerPoint Remote Control

Android phones are more and more popular. If you have also an Android phone, you could easily turn it into a PowerPoint remote control. Read on to see how.

Gmote is required to turn your Android phone into remote control, which is totally free to use but the functions are powerful even compared to paid Android apps. It supports most operation while making a PowerPoint presentation or playing media, such as play, pause, rewind, volume controls, etc. You could even use the file browser to open the PowerPoint for presentation. Now only 3 steps to turn your Android phone into a remote control for a computer.

Step 1: Install Gmote client on Android phone

In your Android phone, visit http://www.gmote.org/ to download and install Gmote APK to your phone.

Step 2: Install Gmote server on computer

Download Gmote server setup file on http://www.gmote.org/server. Both Windows, Mac and Linux platforms are supported. While installing, you will be prompted to set a password for connecting to the server from your phone. The same is on the phone side. You can also change this password later by right clicking the Gmote server icon and selecting “Change password”.

For Windows user, you are also suggested to tell the Gmote where your media files are stored.

Step 3: Connect to server from client and start Gmoting

Now it’s the time to have a test. First open the Gmote app from the application list. It will automatically search for a server (if not tap up the Menu option and select Find Server), then enter the password to connect your Android phone to your computer or laptop. The devices must be connected to the same Wireless network. Usually this is the situation in a company.

Once the devices are connected, you can open the file browser from your Android phone and start controlling your PowerPoint presentation. Simply tap on the Android phone screen to advance to next slide. For more controls, you need to bring up the virtual keyboard by tapping on the keyboard icon on the top left of Gmote Touch.

Explore more features by yourself. You could also burn PowerPoint to DVD for automatic presentation.

01 Jul 11 How to Save PowerPoint as PDF for Free

Many people want to convert PowerPoint to PDF so that they can play presentation on any platform. This article will show you how to save PowerPoint as PDF file for totally free – a PPT to PDF/XPS add-in from Microsoft is used.

Download PowerPiont to PDF Add-in

You only need to an add-in to save PowerPoint as PDF file without any charge.

Download PPT to PDF add-in first (through Microsoft.com )

After installation, your PowerPoint File menu will be different. See the image below:

Therefore, no guide at all. Just open your PowerPoint file, click Office button -> Save As and select *.PDF from the Save as type drop-down list. That is it! Now convert your PowerPoint to PDF with ease and for totally free.

Remove PPT to PDF Add-in

If you don’t like this add-in, you could remove it from you system like other windows software. To remove PowerPoint to PDF add-in, do as follow:

1. On the Start menu, point to Settings and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click Add/Remove Programs.
3. In the list of currently installed programs, select Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS Add-in for 2007 Microsoft Office programs and then click Remove or Add/Remove. If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to remove the program.
4. Click Yes or OK to confirm that you want to remove the program.

Hope you enjoy this useful PPT to PDF tool.

23 Jun 11 How to Convert PowerPoint to Movie

 

You have made lots of gorgeous PowerPoint presentations, for example a summer vacation presentation, a family reunion presentation, or a picnic presentation. Do you ever think of converting them to movies for playing on TV or sharing on YouTube? This article introduces 3 way to convert PowerPoint to movie.

3 ways to convert PowerPoint to movie

1.Using Wondershare PPT2DVD Pro to convert PowerPoint to DVD movie or video file retaining the original transitions, animations, sounds, movie clips, etc.
2.For Windows users, convert PowerPoint to movie with Windows Movie Maker or Windows Live Movie Maker.
3.For Mac users, Make QuickTime movie from PowerPoint

 

Below are the details steps to convert PowerPoint to movie with 5 methods.

Part 1: Using Wondershare PPT2DVD Pro to convert PowerPoint to movie.

Wondershare PPT2DVD Pro can not only burn your PowerPoint presentations to DVD movies for TV, but also convert presentation to WMV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, MOV and 3GP format. After the conversion, you can play it on your home DVD player. For converted videos, they can usually be played on most computers, or upload your movies to website like YouTube if you are a internet savvy users. Playing PowerPoint movies on iPhone, iPod, iPad is also available.

 

Step 1: Download PPT2DVD Pro and install it to your computer (Windows only)

Step 2: launch the PowerPoint to movie converter and choose to convert PowerPoint to DVD or convert PowerPoint to video. Next, import the PowerPoint files into the program, you can import up to 12 PowerPoint files at one time.

Step 3, Click OK to convert, and make settings if necessary.

Part 2: Using Windows Movie Maker to convert PowerPoint to movie

If you are using Windows XP or vista, Movie Maker comes with the system by default. If you don’t find it, download it from Microsoft.com. If your presentation is only created with text and pictures, Windows Movie Maker is the best choice for you.

Step 1: save your presentation to PNG or JPG format. Just click the office button -> Save As, in the save as type drop-box, select PNG or JPG format

Step 2: import pictures into Windows Movie Maker

Step 3: select all the imported images and add them to Storyboard.

Step 4: add transition effects to the slides, similar to the PowerPoint transitions.

Step 5: create the slide show as movie file.

Note that the original sounds, transitions and animations in the PowerPoint will be totally lost. If you are using Windows 7, try Windows Live Movie Maker instead.

Part 3: Convert PowerPoint to QuickTime movie on Mac

Open PowerPoint for Mac, and in PowerPoint, open your PowerPoint file and export your presentation as a QuickTime (.mov) “PowerPoint Movie” as followed: click file>> make movie. You can save your PowerPoint file to MOV file. It cannot keep the original sounds and animations in your presentations.

If you are using keynote, which is PowerPoint alternative on Mac, just export your presentation to QuickTime file directly.

 

Conclusion:
If you want to keep the dynamic elements, PPT2DVD Pro is definitely your choice. Windows Movie Maker can be considered by those who want to only convert the PowerPoint to movie with text and images. For Mac users, they can convert PowerPoint to movie with animations and sounds with the native support of conversion from PowerPoint to MOV movie.

15 Jun 11 Insert Real-time Web Page to PowerPoint

 

Are you familiar with this situation: you minimize the PowerPoint presentation, open the web browser, input Google.com and wait for the result page to load. When you finished the Google search demonstration, you finally return to the presentation to continue. Now you could accomplish such a Google demo painlessly – using a PowerPoint freeware add-in – LiveWeb.

 

This free PowerPoint add-in is created by Shyam Pillai. He realizes the live web page in PowerPoint through two components: 1. Wizard component helps you create a list of web pages. 2. Real-time update component automatically load the web page when the slide is open. After install the add-in, two items will be added to your PowerPoint: Web Page and Edit Page property.

 

Add Web Page to PowerPoint

 

It’s damn easy to use LiveWeb to insert web page to your PowerPoint presentation. Just go to Insert -> LiveWeb -> Web Page, and the LiveWeb wizard will open. Follow on screen instructions to get it done. A slide with a windows logo will be inserted. Frankly, the logo is a bit of ugly. But it doesn’t affect that it’s a useful add-in. Then press Shift + F5 to display the slide in full-screen mode. The web page will be automatically loaded into PowerPoint presentation slide. If it’s the Google, simply type into what you want to search, as in a normal web browser.

 

There is only one drawback. If you want to display the inserted web page in another computer, you have to install the LiveWeb add-in, too.

Add PDF to PowerPoint

With this add-in, you could also insert and display PDF file to your PowerPoint presentation. Exactly the same with insert web page to PowerPoint. But the URL will change to something like http://www.yourwebsite.com/live.pdf. If it’s a local PDF file, just input the relative path, such as c:\live.pdf. Simple enough, right?

 

Hope this post help you.

 

To burn PowerPoint to DVD, free try PPT2DVD Pro – the first PowerPoint to DVD program.

10 Jun 11 How to Co-work on a PowerPoint Presentation

 

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 comes with a new co-authoring functionality. With it, you and your colleagues can co-work on a PowerPoint presentation to improve the work efficiency.

 

Co-authoring feature requires a Windows Live SkyDrive account or SharePoint Foundation 2010. The server preserves a central copy of the presentation and saves changes from multiple authors. You and your colleagues can see who is editing the presentation and where in the document they are working. Below is how to co-work on a PowerPoint presentation with others.

 

1. Open a PowerPoint 2010 presentation that is saved on the server. When one or more colleagues open the same presentation, a notification appears in the status bar with the total number of co-authors. To see their names, click the number in the status bar.
2. On the View tab, click Normal to view your presentation in Normal view.
3. On the Slides tab, a small icon appears on the lower-right corner of the slide thumbnail that indicates that a co-author is making changes to that slide. Click the icon to see the name of the co-author.

 

PowerPoint Co-working Tips:

 

1. Another way to see the names of the co-authors is to click the File tab, and then click Info on the left side of the screen.
2. Authors are currently editing the presentation, and how to send them a message?
a. To send an e-mail message or instant message to your co-authors, click Send a Message, and then click Send an E-mail Message or Send an Instant Message.
b. When another author saves changes, PowerPoint will notify that changes have been made.

 

When presentation finished, you can convert PowerPoint to DVD to present on TV or deliver to other.

01 Jun 11 Open Office PowerPoint: Open and Save PowerPoint Files

 

OpenOffice.org is the leading free office software suit similar to Microsoft Office, and is considered as the best alternative to Office. It contains Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base, among which Impress is similar to PowerPoint, and Impress file format is highly compatible with Microsoft’s PowerPoint format. Here introduces how to open Office PowerPoint file and save as an Office PowerPoint file.

How to Open Office PowerPoint File

If you receive an Office PowerPoint file from someone and need to edit it in Impress, here is how to open and edit Office PowerPoint file for free. Download and install OpenOffice.org here.

1. In OpenOffice.org, choose File > Open from the menu bar.
2. Under File type, choose All files (*.*) or Presentations or Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP from the drop-down list.
3. Navigate to the PowerPoint file, select it, and click Open.
4. Now you can edit Office PowerPoint file without PowerPoint and for free.

How to Save as an Office PowerPoint file

1. Choose File > Save As from the menu bar.
2. Select the location where you want the PowerPoint file saved and type a name for the file.
3. Under File type, choose Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP (.ppt).
4. Click Save, and in the pop-up dialog click Yes to confirm that you want to save the file in Microsoft Office PowerPoint format.

 

By converting PowerPoint to video, you can share it anywhere: online, on TV, and on all popular mobile devices. Learn more >>

24 May 11 Convert PowerPoint to HTML

 

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, which is the most universal markup language for web pages. By converting PowerPoint to HTML, you can share presentation on web independently. There are two methods for you to convert PowerPoint to HTML:

Convert PowerPoint to HTML with Embedded Images

With the help of software/add-in for PowerPoint, it’s easy to convert PowerPoint to images and make it animated using CSS and JS programming. OK, don’t be afraid, the converter will generate the HTML files and images, No programing required. As you could see, it’s convenient, but the disadvantage is frustrated - usually the animations, transitions, sounds and other features of PowerPoint won’t be converted. These kind of PPT to HTML tools include Ultra PPT To HTML Converter and PPTools PPT2HTML (PowerPoint add-in).

Convert PowerPoint to HTML with Embedded Flash

To retain all original features of PowerPoint while converting PowerPoint to HTML with Flash movie, PPT2Flash Professional is the only tool you need. It can easily convert PowerPoint files to SWF flash movie with or without HTML container. Moreover, it can convert PowerPoint to standalone *.exe file to burn auto run CD presentation.

 

This PowerPoint to HTML converter also comes with powerful post-editing tools for your presentation, try it for free. The potential disadvantage is that you may spend a little time to learn how to use it. Below is its Ribbon style interface.

Learn more about PPT2Flash Professional >>