13 Dec 06 PowerPoint 2007 News

Wondershare PPT2DVD 3.8.10–convert powerpoint to dvd

http://www.ppt2dvd.com

PowerPoint 2007 News

Here’s a link to the Microsoft version of what’s new in PowerPoint 2007.?

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/programs/powerpoint/highlights.mspx

And here’s a link to the PPT and Office Art blog. Good stuff there.

2007 Tutorials

And in no particular order, here’s my list of new stuff in PowerPoint 2007. (click here for a list of missing stuff)

1. We can add our own placeholders to slide masters!

Woohoo! Finally! We can even make it say what we want if we don’t like “click to edit text.”

2. Custom slide layouts

PPT 2007 allows you to create a variety of slide master layouts now — chart slide layouts, subtitle slide layouts, table slide layouts, picture slide layouts, whatever you want. And they provide a bunch of ‘em for us, too.?

In the new PPT-speak, a “slide master” governs a bunch of “slide layouts.” So you have a slide master and then an associated title slide layout, a title and content slide layout, a section header slide layout, a two content slide layout, and so on. The individual layouts will inherit their default settings from their parent slide master, and then you can go in and tweak the individual layouts as necessary.

3. SmartArt diagrams

Use these to create slick-looking organization charts, flowcharts, and other diagrams. Upping the coolness factor is the ability to turn a list of bulleted text into a SmartArt diagram at the click of a button.

4. Outline text

We can now apply separate colors for a font’s “fill” and “outline.” No more struggling with WordArt to create outlined text.

5. Other text effects

Shadows, reflections, glows, bevels, 3D rotation, and transforms (like the old WordArt shapes)?

6. Shape effects

Shadows, reflections, glows, soft edges, bevels, 3D rotation and better 3D depth and rotation control.

7. Shape and text presets?

These make it really easy to apply a preset look to an object or text.?

8. Selection pane

Woohoo! A taskpane lists all objects on the slide. We can rename objects (and that name shows up in the custom animation taskpane, YEAH!), change the stacking order, and make the object visible or invisible in the pane.

9. Themes

Themes include color schemes and fonts (one for headings and one for body text) that carry through all the Office programs. This means it’s easier to make PowerPoint, Excel, Access and Word all work together aesthetically.?

10. Custom colors

It’s now possible to specify custom colors that travel with the Themes. This means it’s finally possible to specify your corporate color and make it easily available in all the Office applications and in charts (!!). Unfortunately, there’s not a user interface for this, so you’ll have to hack the Theme XML. (But I’m still excited to have this ability!)

11. Photo edges

These are way cool. Torn edges and reflections and shaped pictures and simple borders and complicated borders and all kinds of stuff. AND each PowerPoint template (Theme) has its own photo edge effect already available. Just add a picture using a provided “picture with caption” slide layout; then you can see the picture effects change as you change design themes.?

12. Recolor picture

My old buddy the Recolor tool is gone. In its place are a number of more sophisticated recoloring options. While that gives us many more options to tint photos and things like that, it doesn’t make it easy to simply recolor clipart.

13. Shadows

Shadows in general are so very nice compared to those in previous versions of PPT. We can actually control the transparency, amount of blur, and color now.

14. No more MS Graph

Charts are now done in Excel. But don’t panic! It’s not scary, I promise. When we insert a chart in PPT, we still get a dummy chart to begin with, just like always. I think in the long run the change to charting in Excel will make charting much better.?

15. Chart elements work more like drawing objects

This means all the effects we can apply to shapes, we can now apply to elements in the charts. Sure makes it much easier to add nice drop shadows to charts!

16. Real-time previews

When you scroll over the various galleries in PowerPoint, you’ll see your slide and various objects change to display what they’ll look like if you decide to apply those settings. Just click on the thumbnail in the gallery to actually accept the changes. This makes it a lot faster to see, for example, how changing a color scheme will affect your slides. Unfortunately, the real-time preview doesn’t work on everything.

17. Kerning

Woohoo! We can finally kern text! YEAH!

18. Quick layouts and quick styles

When you select an object on your slide, you’ll be presented with a gallery of layouts and/or styles. These provide quick formatting options for the object in question, and make it easy to create good-looking slides with just a few clicks.

Some of the objects that have style galleries are pictures, SmartArt diagrams, charts, WordArt, text, autoshapes, and tables.

19. Tables

Duh! I almost forgot tables. The quick styles make the new PPT tables look really nice right off the bat. AND we can specify sizes for cell height and width now.

20. Zoom slider

It’s quicker to zoom in and out now using the zoom slider in the southeast corner of the screen.

21. Presenter view

Oh, man, you’re gonna love this! You can resize the slides and notes and all kinds of stuff in the new presenter view. More information here.

22. Ctrl+G now groups selected items!

Thank god. PPT finally joined the rest of the world. Use Ctrl+Shift+G to ungroup.

23. Insert and Link

Now when inserting a photo, we have the option to 1) Insert, 2) Link to File, or 3) Insert and Link.

24. Save as PDF (and XPS — XML Paper Specification)

This may end up being a separate download instead of being included in PPT out of the box.?

25. New file format

PPT file format is now XML, which should mean fewer corrupted files. It also means there are a bunch of different file extensions.

PPTX format (regular PPT 2007 file)
PPTM (PPT + macros)
PPSX (PowerPoint 2007 Show file)
PPSM (PowerPoint 2007 Show + macros)
POTX (PPT 2007 template)
POTM (PPT template + macros)
PPAM (PPT add-in)

26. Columns

Add columns to a textbox. Very slick.

27. Tabs

We now have a real tab setting dialog box. (We can still add tabs by clicking on the ruler.) Tabs also apply to each paragraph now, not to the entire textbox.

28. Slide libraries

Requires Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), but if you have it, you can upload and download slides from a slide library. Among other things, slide libraries make it much easier to ensure that you have the latest version of a slide.

29. Workflow services (review processes)?

This also requires Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). And that’s really all I know about it, since I don’t have MOSS to see how this works.

30. Mark as final

Lets you mark the presentation as final and make it read only. This should be a nice way to ensure you’re working from the correct file when you go back to it later, but the jury’s still out as far as I’m concerned — I can’t make changes to my “marked as final” file in PPT, but when I check the file properties in Windows Explorer, it’s not flagged as “read only.” So I think “read only” is probably not a good term to use in this feature. And the bigger problem is, I didn’t get any kind of notification when I reopened the file, so I’ve no idea *why* I can’t make changes to it. Hmmm…I can tell already this will be a frequently asked question….

31. Compatibility checker

This could be better, but it’s still a pretty nifty utility. Basically, it checks your file to see what will cause problems in earlier versions of PPT (in other words, what features you’ll lose if you backsave the file to the PPT 97-2003 file format).

32. A few new autoshapes

Not many, but some. Half-frame, decagon, equation shapes, etc.

33. Better autoshape manipulation

That yellow diamond thing works better on most of the autoshapes.?

34. Font effects

Just like Word! Woohoo! We now have strikethrough, double strikethrough, small caps, all caps, and equalize character height in addition to superscrīpt and subscrīpt. And we can choose from a huge variety of underline styles!

35. Clear all formatting

Select text or a textbox and click this button to strip all the formatting.?

36. Better contrast colors when typing

So I used to have this template that would give me a red fill for contrast when I’d type in the textboxes.?It was awful! That won’t happen anymore, because PPT 2007 uses a bluish rectangle to designate your selected text. To be honest, I’m not sure I like the new rectangle (not quite enough contrast), but I know that people who hated the autocontrast colors will be glad to be rid of them.

37. 16:9 page size out of the box

We now have 16:9 and 16:10 ratios in the page setup dialog. This will be very handy for those using widescreen.?More info here.

38. Chart templates

OMG, I can’t believe I forgot to list this! We can finally easily save a chart as a template and send it to someone else to use! Woohoooooo! Okay, so the chart templates don’t travel with the themes (templates), but at least they’re easier to share. What I want to know is if custom colors (see #10 above) will travel with these chart templates or at least how they work together. Hmm….

Update: If you’re using PPT 2007 on Vista, be sure to open the chart data source in Excel before applying a chart template, or PPT will crash. See http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=927475 for details.

39. Paste Special has a shortcut

I’m sure most of you know that Ctrl+V is a shortcut for Paste. In PPT 2007, Ctrl+Alt+V is a shortcut that opens the Paste Special Window. Yippee! No more Edit|Paste Special (which always seemed like a really long way to get there for some reason). Of course, we can still get to Paste Special from the Paste button on the Home ribbon (Clipboard chunk).

40. Gradients on lines

We can finally apply gradients to lines.?

41. Specify ALL CAPS (or even SMALL CAPS) in a placeholder

In PPT 2007, we can specify ALL CAPS (or small caps) by selecting the placeholder on the slide master and checking the ALL CAPS option in Format|Font. We couldn’t do this in previous versions because there is no ALL CAPS or SMALL CAPS option in Format|Font in those versions.

42. Inspect Document?

This is really neat. It lets you find and remove the following: Comments and Ink Notations, Document Properties and Personal Information, Custom XML Data, Invisible On-Slide Content (objects you’ve hidden using the Selection and Visibility Task Pane), Off-Slide Content, and Presentation Notes. In PPT 2007, the document inspector can only remove these items presentation-wide. I hope in future versions we’ll be able to remove these items on a slide-by-slide basis.

43. New display window

Click this option to show your open presentation in an open window. Pretty cool — we can look at the file in, for example, Normal View and Notes Page View at the same time now. This will make my life much easier when formatting notes pages — I’ll be able to make edits to the slide in Normal View without totally losing my place in the notes. Sweet!

44. Add a digital signature

I admit it — I know nothing about this feature other than it’s there.

45. Persistent undo and redo

We can still undo and redo even after saving the file. Way cool! (Thanks for pointing this out, Shawn!)

Missing Stuff

1. Recolor picture (the new tool doesn’t let you recolor clipart or charts)

2. Macro recorder

3. Ability to customize toolbars (the ribbon)?

4. Tear-away menus

5. Select Multiple Objects tool (but the new selection pane is much nicer anyway!)

6. Title case (A true title case last existed in PPT 2000. At least now they’ve properly named what we do have: Capitalize Each Word.)

7. Underline just words, not words and spaces. (Okay, so in PPT 97, we could underline words only. Since then, it’s been words AND spaces. I want the option to do either one.)

8. Insert from scanner. Here’s why.?

9. Pattern fills are no more. If you rely on pattern fills, consider creating your own pattern images (I believe 1″ x 1″ is usually all you really need) and applying them through the Texture Fills options.?

10. Animation Schemes. Gone.?

11. Summary slide. Zapped.?

12. AutoContent Wizard. Buh-Bye.?

13. AutoLayout. PPT no longer changes the slide layout and so moves stuff around on your slide when you insert an object onto the slide. Thank gawd!?

14. Microsoft scrīpt Editor has been removed from PPT. When opening a PowerPoint file containing scrīpts, we’ll receive a warning that says PPT no longer supports scrīpts.

15. Presentation Broadcasting. I’m so glad — stupid thing never worked right anyway. The documentation was circular, it was way too fiddly to set up, and it was unreliable as all get out. It was a nice thought, but the execution was sorely lacking.

16. Style Checker, aka “presentation advisor.” It’s too bad, too. I think the problem is that nobody used it in PPT 2003 because 1) it was turned off by default and 2) it sucked. It was very badly implemented, to say the least. (I mean, a lightbulb popping up outta nowhere? C’mon.) I think MS missed a prime opportunity to really make some fundamental improvements to this feature.?

(Back in PPT 2000, I used this feature when cleaning up slides I’d received from others. It was good for checking title case on slides and making sure punctuation was removed from bulleted text. But it hasn’t worked since PPT 2000, anyway, and PPT 2002 screwed up title case so badly it probably wouldn’t have mattered if it did work.)

17. Send for Review. I’m bummed to see this go. I think it hasn’t really had a chance yet.

18. Speaker notes dialog popup in slide show view (where you could actually type notes while giving a presentation). Outta there.

19. Allow Fast Saves. Gone! Bada-BING!

20. Patterned lines. Did anyone ever use these?

21. Ugly contrast colors when typing.?

22. Black and white settings for charts. This one’s gonna hurt.

23. Ability to resize slide thumbnails after you Send to Word. Okay, so who at Microsoft missed the point that the reason we Send to Word in the first place is so that we can resize the freaking slide thumbnails because we can’t in PowerPoint?! Now it’s either drag a corner (and guess) or start coding, my friends.

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Okay, it’s not exactly missing, but you might wanna know…

1. PPT 2007 saves the same HTML as PPT 2003 did. So new features in PPT 2007 aren’t available when you save as HTML. ?

2. Organization Chart. We had one kind of Org Chart in PPT 97 and 2000 and another in 2002 and 2003. We now have the new SmartArt diagrams.?

3. Microsoft Producer does not work with PPT 2007. Period. ?

4. Charts are now created in Excel. (See #14 in the “new” list.) When you insert a chart (or click a chart placeholder) in PPT, Excel opens with dummy data, and a sample chart appears on the slide. It’s very similar to how we used to have a sample chart appear when using MS Graph in PPT, but now we have access to all the Excel charting tools. Coolio!?

5. Insert | Slides From File is now Insert | Add Slide | Reuse Slides. Navigate to your file, and the slide thumbnails will show up in the task pane. There’s no way to add multiple slides at once, so be prepared to click, click, click your fingers off. (Don’t shoot the messenger; I think it’s ridiculous, too.) But you can insert all the slides by right-clicking and choosing Insert All Slides.

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10 Dec 06 Tutorial about how to convert powerpoint to DVDAs

Wondershare PPT2DVD 3.8.10–convert powerpoint to dvd

http://www.ppt2dvd.com

I am familiar to file conversion,lots of friends always ask me how to convert powerpoint presentations to DVD to play it on TV.And some others asked how to convert powerpoint to flash or other formats.I know all these issues ,and glad to write a tutorial to help friends you all.This time I only make the guide of powerpoint to DVD, if you need more information about other conversions ,you can visit my blog below:[url=http://ppt2dvd.blogspot.com/]http://ppt2dvd.blogspot.com[/url] or contact me by email(google talk): [url=mailto:shenzhenons@gmail.com]shenzhenons@gmail.com[/url]now ,let’s begin!Why shall us convert powerpoint to DVD? Below advantages to be concerned.1.Play powerpoint with a video player or DVD For training.2.Show your presentations on TV ,Deliver your information in a CD everywhere.3.Preserve your memories slideshow on DVD ,Record & Share with your friends How to convert?How to burn?Truly they are a fluent process no need to be divided.Below solution can easily convert the ppt to video formats then burn it to DVD.Only one tool to use,no need other tools to help. [size=4]Prepare[/size]:1.Download the tool and install it . Download url: [url=http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/powerpoint-dvd-download.phpStep]http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/powerpoint-dvd-download.php[/url]2.Run PPT2DVD 3.8.10,and take a overview of its functions. 3.See its Flash tutorial here: [url=http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/tutorialflash/]http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/tutorialflash/[/url] [b][size=4]Convert :[/size][/b] 1.Just ‘browse’and select the files should be converted,and press “Next” .[img]http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/zhinan/import.gif[/img]2.(1)Press “Customize Video layout: to set the video size and background you want.(2) If need,press advanced setting for some details to set,such as video quality ,animation time,transition time video quality etc.you can ignore the music in the origin ppt in the advanced setting. [img]http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/zhinan/VideoLayout2.gif[/img][img]http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/zhinan/advancesetting.gif[/img] 3.In the “play mode” setting process,you can customize the mainmenu and play menu of your DVD.Press”mainmenu setting” and”Content menu setting”[img]http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/zhinan/playmode.gif[/img]Main menu is the fist picture to appear when you play the dvd,you can choose the presentations you had burned in . [img]http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/zhinan/mainmenu.gif[/img]Play menu is the second picture when you play the dvd,you can choose “auto play” ,”manual play” “list view” or “thumbnail view”. [img]http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/zhinan/playmenu.gif[/img][b]All these choosing action can be used by a DVD remote control!!! [/b] 4.Preview and add background music /record narratation to your presentation.In the Preview process ,if you choose configure “auto mode” the ppt will play automatical when you record narration. if you choose configure “auto mode” you should control it play slide by slide when you record narration. [img]http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/zhinan/manual.gif[/img][img]http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/zhinan/Preview-addmusic.gif[/img] 5.After above steps, click “continue” and then “next”,the conversion would start automaticaly until finish! For some minutes ,the DVD disk with your presentation come to earth! Tips:If you want to convert it to a MPEG file,you may pause at the ” Output options ” and select the ” Convert to vido file”If there is not a valid burner installed yet, the output formats of the PowerPoint File will be set as CD image file as default. And you can specify the output folder to save the ISO file, and modify the volume label. ISO file have no mainmenu and play mode to be set.If you want to burn it to dvd without any other high needs,you can press “Next” untill the end .It is very easy to use.Wondershare liukh.

07 Dec 06 Free or cheap program to convert powerpoint to DVD?

Wondershare PPT2DVD 3.8.10–convert powerpoint to dvd http://www.ppt2dvd.com Question Free or cheap program to convert powerpoint to DVD? I am looking for a program that is free or under $50 that will convert a powerpoint slideshow with background music and transitions to a DVD. I have tried a few "free to try" programs but they leave a watermark in the slides,so those wont do. Does anyone know of any? PPT2DVD program is $100. that is too expensive for me right now.Thanks You are: sweetie_han Your Answer: Product name price Download amountWondershare ppt2dvd 3.8.9 $99.95 103,512Camtasia Studio Presentation $299.00 23,664PowerVideoMaker Professional $149.95 12337/69PowerPoint DVD Maker 2.0 $149 27731/127PPT To Video Scout 1.22 $49.00 1,441Presentation to Video Converter $199.95 25,431Above is the software market analysis from an expert in PPT2DVD field.you can see the cheapest product is PPT TO Video Scout 1.22,which is only $49 ,bu t its download amount is only 1,441 ,compared with the second cheap one PPT2DVD 103,512.If you need poor quality of your DVD, you can buy PPT TO Video Scout ,its company is www.softpedia.comIf you want hight quality video and audio with background music and transitions to a DVD. you may buy PPT2DVD.AS I learn from its site http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com ，they are holding a discount for Christmas. you can get additional free backup CD and some free powerpoint templates if you by now.and for some Christmas bundles,its much cheaper than you bought one product ,such as :Special Offers : $169.90 now sell only $129.95PPT2DVD + PPT2Flash Standard Buy at once and save $40http://www.wondershare.com/special.html…If you consist to use a free software to take the risk ,I have also a free software to tell you .It is:GOGO Photo To Movie Converter 1.0 $0.00 2100/58(download.com) 04/20/2006It is free ,it can import ppt to a JPG format and convert it to a movie.then you should use another burn software to burn it to DVD. but the background music and transitions and animations cann’t be preserved.Tks a lot@!if you have other questions you can contackt me by email shenzhenons@gmail.com

07 Dec 06 Tutorial about how to convert powerpoint to DVD

Wondershare PPT2DVD 3.8.10–convert powerpoint to dvd
http://www.ppt2dvd.com

Tutorial about how to convert powerpoint to DVD
As I am familiar to file conversion,lots of friends always ask me how to convert powerpoint presentations to DVD to play it on TV.And some others asked how to convert powerpoint to flash or other formats.I know all these issues ,and glad to write a tutorial to help friends you all.
This time I only make the guide of powerpoint to DVD, if you need more information about other conversion ,you can visit my blog below:
http://ppt2dvd.blogspot.com or contact me by email(google talk): shenzhenons@gmail.com
now ,let’s begin!
This tutorial guides you through how to convert your PowerPoint presentations to video and burn it to dvd to play on a home dvd player.It’s great for:
Showing presentations without the need for a computer
Distributing your slideshows to friends and colleagues
Unattended exhibition presentations, that automatically repeat/rewind
Giving your presentations more of a TV feel
And generally making you look more professional
FREE Downloadable files available at the end of the tutorial
This is THE original powerpoint to dvd tutorial – often imitated but never bettered

Theory:
You would think that you could just write your powerpoint file to a DVD and it would just work. We’re sorry to report that’s not the case. But we’re pleased to report that it’s not that difficult. This tutorial will show you how to put your powerpoint presentations on to a dvd in 3 easy steps.
Step One – Download the necessary tools
Most powerpoint slideshows have movement and animation. We want to preserve this animation on the dvd. For this we used a product called PP2DVD to grab the slideshow and convert it to a video file. Download ppt2dvd here at http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/powerpoint-dvd-download.phpStep Two – Conversion

Just ‘browse’and select the files should be converted,and press “Next” .
If you want to burn it to dvd without any other high needs,you can press “Next” untill the end .It is very easy to use.
If you want to convert it to a MPEG file,you may pause at the ” Output options ” and select the ” Convert to vido file”
You can set the the menue in the “play mode “. it is the start menu of your dvd,you can use a remote control to control the play mode.
such as list view,thumbnail view and auto play .
as below

Step Three – Writing the DVD
After the configurations ,you can preview the slides,
and you can record voice or background music when you are preview !
then you’ll back to the interface of the last step, then click “Next” to continue with the further settings.
after that , the program will get the burner on your computer.
You can select a valid burner to burn the DVD disc. If there is not a valid burner installed yet, the output formats of the PowerPoint File will be set as CD image file as default. And you can specify the output folder to save the ISO file, and modify the volume label.

Finished!

06 Dec 06 the music of my first slide does notload until 30 seconds later

Wondershare PPT2DVD 3.8.10–convert powerpoint to dvd
http://www.ppt2dvd.com

Tom Holland
Hello,I am having some difficulty with ppt2dvd and I waswondering if you could help-When I burn my disk-the music of my first slide does notload until 30 seconds later-is there any way I can cutthis time down?Tom HollandManaging DirectorTeton Valley Ranch CampPO Box 3968Jackson, Wyoming 83001307-733-2958

Hello,
Glad to receive from you ! As you said about this problem.I advise you followe below two steps.
1,Check the version of your PPT2DVD software, Make sure you are using the latest version PPT2DVD 3.8.10
2,Please confirm to us whether the music is belonged to the ppt file or is been inserted when you convert with PPT2DVD.
if it is the music in the ppt,you should adjust it first in powerpoint,or you can delete it and then add it use PPT2DVD.
if it was added as background music when you used PPT2DVD,maybe you should send your ppt to us to test,pls contact our live support team,they will help you lively online one to one.
The support centre http://www.ppt2dvd.com/support/