17 May 11 Free Facebook App to Share PowerPoint

SlideShare, which is called the YouTube of PowerPoint Presentations, allows you to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios. Now you can even create, share, search, discover and comment on PowerPoint presentations from within Facebook. This will greatly help you share your own presentations or browse ones shared by your friends & colleagues.

Following formats are now supported by SlideShare Facebook App: PowerPoint (ppt & pps), OpenOffice (odp) and PDF. According to my own experience, When a PDF file is used, the quality of presentations is better. Moreover, if you are an existing Slideshare user, you can easily import your presentations to the Slideshow Facebook APP.

Below is how to upload a PowerPoint presentation from this SlideShare App for Facebook.

Step 1: Login Facebook. Search “SlideShare” in the Facebook’s top search box. After go to SlideShare application page, click Go to App on top and you will be requested to allow SlideShare use your basic information. Now you could find it in your application area, and start browsing presentation at your pleasure.

Step 2: If you are an existing SlideShare user, simply click Sync SlideShare.net Account connect Facebook with your SlideShare account, and import the presentations you uploaded to SlideShare.

Step 3: Click Upload to upload your presentation files. After the uploading process is over, you can find the presentation in My Slidespace area. Click on any presentation thumbnail, and you will be able to share and post it in your wall. Your friends can then view the presentation directly from Facebook, and post comments or likes.

Free SlideShare App Disadvantage:

Besides the convenience to share presentations, there are also disadvantages for this free Powerpoint app for Facebook. You have to play slides one after another. No auto play. It’s still a presentation? And after converting PowerPoint to SlideShare app, the animations, transitions, sounds and video clips in your PowerPoint will be dropped. The PowerPoint file will be played just like a stack of static pictures. To solve these problems, you need convert Powerpoint to video first and upload to Facebook Video.

27 Apr 11 3 Free PowerPoint Tools to Enhance Presentation

 

PowerPoint is a great product from Microsoft. It’s used worldwide by billions of people. Somebody could not endure one that is without PowerPoint. Today, we will introduce some tools to enhance your PowerPoint experience.

 

FOTOLIA

Fotolia PowerPoit plug-in gives you quick access to millions of stock images from Fotolia. First you need to download and install the software. When complete, search for photos and double-click to preview them in slides. But you need to buy them to use in your presentation. Images cost from $1 to $20. Fotolia cost: Free

 

POLL EVERYWHERE

By inserting a slide from the Poll Everywhere site, you can poll your audience in real time. The audiences can even respond to questions by text or Twitter from their phones. Poll results will appear in a customizable graphic image. Poll Everywhere cost: Free. 10 cents to 30 cents per person if audiences are up to 30.

 

TWITTER TOOLS

It’s a suite of PowerPoint Twitter Tools by SAP, including Autotweet, an add-in that lets you automatically tweet tagged text from a presentation slide. Plus, a feedback slide could be insert into your PowerPoint file. Autotweet lets you ask audience members questions and display their Twitter responses. Twitter Tools cost: Free

 

PPT2DVD Pro – Best tool to convert PowerPoint to DVD to present anywhere.

26 Apr 11 How to Add a Link in PowerPoint

PowerPoint is the best presentations software in the world. It’s widely use for home, business, school, science and so on. Adding links in PowerPoint can make your presentation more informative, such as linking to a website for reference or providing alternatives. Now see how to add links to a PowerPoint.

1. Open PowerPoint to create a new presentation or open an existing presentation.
2. Select text or an object you want to add a link. Not yet an object? Click “Insert” from the toolbar and select whatever you want.
3. Also in Insert tab, click “Hyperlink” to open the settings dialog. Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl+K”.
4. Click “Existing File or Web Page” in the “Link To” section if you want to link to another document on your computer or to a website. In the “Look In” box, navigate to the file or web address you want as your link. Or directly type in the address in the “Address” field. Click “OK” and your link is added.

More link types in PowerPoint:

Link an object to another slide in PowerPoint: Click “Place in This Document” in the “Link To” section and in the “Select a Place in this Document” field, navigate to the slide you want to link to. Click “OK” and your link is added.

Link to another document: Click “Create New Document” in the “Link To” section, firstly give a name to that document and you can edit it now or later when you click “OK”. At the same time your link is added.

Link to open a new email message: Click “Email Address” in the “Link To” section so you will be able to customize with an email address and even a subject line. Click “OK” and your link is added.

Want to make PowerPoint played anywhere? Convert PowerPoint to video or convert PowerPoint to DVD

25 Apr 11 How to Convert PowerPoint to Flash for Free

By converting PowerPoint to Flash, there are many benefits:

1. No more large size.ppt, .pps, .pptx, .ppsx e-mail attachments
2. Make your PowerPoint easy to distribute on the web
3. Protect your PowerPoint from changing by others
4. And more to be explored

Today, I will show you an easy way to convert PowerPoint to Flash for totally FREE, and it’s very easy, read on.

Convert PowerPoint to flash using OpenOffice

1. Install and launch OpenOffice.org – the powerful and free alternative to Microsoft Office.
2. Open the Powerpoint presentation that you wish to convert to flash.
3. Click File then Export.
4. Choose Macromedia Flash (SWF) .swf in the Filter box.
5. Click OK to convert PowerPoint to Flash.
6. Wait for PowerPoint to Flash conversion complete.

Note that the Impress flash export feature doesn’t support animation effects in the original PowerPoint presentation. To convert PowerPoint to video with total transition and animation effects retained, try PPT2Video Pro or other PPT to video converter. The converted PPT video would be too large to be sent via email. However, it’s easier to upload videos to website like YouTube to share with others.

21 Apr 11 How to Make Self-running Music Slideshow with PowerPoint

 

PowerPoint is the NO.1 presentation software (at least on Windows Platform). But this article will show you how to make a self-running photo slideshow with music with PowerPoint. Let’s start now.

 

1. Run PowerPoint first, and if you are editing a PowerPoint, create a new presentation by Office button > New > Blank and recent > Blank Presentation.
2. Go to Insert > Photo Album > New Photo Album > File/Disk to import photos. Click Create to return to PowerPoint.

3. Go to Animation tab to set transition effects, transition speed and photo duration and more. To set the duration, select all slides and check Automatically After to set to desired seconds.

4. Add background music to your slideshow by Insert > Sound > Sound from File.
5. Now make your powerpoint self-running: go to Slide Show > Set Up Slide Show, in the pop up dialog, select Browsed at a kiosk (full screen). You could also set the slideshow resolution to desired one from Slide show resolution drop-down list.
6. Finally go to Office button > Save as, in the Save as Type box, select Powerpoint Show (*.ppsx), click OK
7. Done.

 

By converting PowerPoint to video, you could share PowerPoint slideshow more easily. PPT2Video Pro could convert PowerPoint slideshow to all popular videos such as AVI, MOV, WMV, MPEG, FLV, 3GP and even HD videos. Want to sharing PowerPoint to YouTube? download PPT2Video Pro to have a free trial.

Note: you are free to add title, cliparts and other elements to enhance your photo slideshow in PowerPoint.

21 Apr 11 How to Convert PowerPoint to Image

There are many reasons why people convert PowerPoint to images:

1. Convert PPT to image to protect content from changes
2. Convert PPT to image to use images in other software
3. Convert PPT to image to share PowerPoint contents with others

No matter what reasons of yours, you could convert PowerPoint to images as followed.

Easy Steps to Convert PowerPoint to Images

1. Click Office button and select Save As (For the previous version, go to File > Save As.)
2. In the pop up Save As dialog box, click the Save as Type drop-down box and choose desired image format. These formats are supported: TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX and DCX.
3. Click Save.
4. Choose Every Slide to convert all slides to image, or select Current Slide Only to save slide to single image.
5. Click OK and PowerPoint will tell you were the image files were saved.
6. You have converted PowerPoint to images. Now you can send use PowerPoint image more widely than PowerPoint file.

Enjoy.

21 Apr 11 2 Ways to Embed MP3 to PowerPoint

Audio is important to a PowerPoint. Adding music or voiceover can greatly enhance the presenting experience. In this post, you will learn 2 ways to embed MP3 to PowerPoint in easy steps.

1. Easily Embed MP3 to PowerPoint in Insert Tab

Some said they can only import WAV file to PowerPoint, but in my PowerPoint 2007, I can directly add MP3 file from Insert > Sound > Sound from File. And it works perfect. But adding MP3 to PowerPoint in this way, you must play PowerPoint on your own computer. The audio won’t play once it’s moved to another computer.

Note if you can’t add MP3 to PowerPoint as described above, first convert MP3 to WAV using following method.

2. Really Embed MP3 to PowerPoint in Animations Tab

The advantage of this method is that the MP3 (in fact, peusdo-wav) will be embedded into PowerPoint in one single file, therefore, you can take PowerPoint anywhere and the audio always do what it’s expected. Below is the detailed steps to embed MP3 to PowerPoint.

1). Convert MP3 to WAV – only labeled as *.wav by changing RIFF header, MP3 characteristics such as audio quality and file size remained. The free audio tool CDex is needed. Download and install CDex, and then go to “Convert > Add RIFF-WAV(s) header to Mp2 or MP3 file(s)”.

2). Add animation in your PowerPoint presentation. In order to embed MP3 into the PowerPoint, it must play with the animation.
3). Go go the Animations tab and click “Custom Animation”, select an element on slide and add effects to it. From the Custom Animation panel on the right, click added effect and select “Effect Options” from the drop-down list.
4). In the pop-up dialog, go to “Sound > Other Sound…” to browse audio files. Select the pseudo-wav and click OK.
5). Now the MP3 has embedded to PowerPoint.

Press F5 to preview PowerPoint and play MP3 in PowerPoint!

19 Apr 11 PowerPoint Knowledge Quiz

We have made a PowerPoint knowledge quiz that helps you know how you master PowerPoint. If failed, sorry, but you need to study more to improve your PowerPoint skill. Just for fun.

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18 Apr 11 Top 3 Free PowerPoint to Video Software/Services

This article will show you top 3 free PowerPoint to video software/services that do PPT to video job well and free. They are:

Wondershare PPT2Video Free

AuthorStream (online ppt to video conversion)

PowerDVDPoint Lite

These free PPT to video tools support multiple input and output video formats. For the usability, there is no hassle for these tools to convert simple PowerPoint in high quality and efficiency. But if you are using some advanced animation effects in PowerPoint, you might want to try all of these PPT to video converters to find the best PPT to video converter for you.

PPT to Video Freeware: Wondershare PPT to Video Free

Wondershare PPT2Video Free is an easy and simple PowerPoint to video converter for converting PowerPoint presentation to video of ASF, WMV, MKV, and MOV retaining original animations and sound effects with excellent quality. It provides high-quality output resolution up to 1280*720, and it’s very fast.

After converting PowerPoint to video, you can play ppt video on computer without PowerPoint installed, uploaded to video sharing websites like YouTube and played on portable devices like iPhone, Pocket PC, iPod, Blackberry, etc.

Download PPT to Video Free here.

Online PPT to Video Service: AuthorStream

AuthorStream is an online PPT sharing website. But it comes with free PPT to video converting service. You just need to upload your PPT file (rehearsed or narrated ) and select converting to video, AuthorStream will convert PPT to video online for free. When finished, you can download converter ppt video from AuthorStream. Informed email will deliver to your registered email.

Although online PPT to video is convenience, the limits of AuthorStream PPT to video conversion are also obvious: 1. The presentations that you upload may become public. You are allowed to upload up to 50 private presentations for free. Beyond that, you can migrate to premium version of AuthorStream. 2. Watermark will be embedded into the PPT video.

AuthorStream is very attractive to those who do not need to download or install anything to their computer. If you have a few presentations that you want to convert to video, AuthorStream is a good choice. Try AuthorStream online.

PPT to Video Freeware: PowerDVDPoint Lite

PowerDVDPoint Lite is also a free PPT to video converter that can convert Powerpoint presentations to MOV, ASF, WMV, and MKV. PowerDVDPoint Lite is extremely easy to use, and it lets you bulk convert PPT to video. Download free here.

Hope you choose your favorite free PPT to video solution.

See also:

5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint to Video

How to convert PowerPoint to YouTube video with PPT2Video

15 Apr 11 How to Extract a Single Slide from PowerPoint

This post will show you how to extract one slide out of many in a PowerPoint presentation.

There are several ways to save an individual slide from a PowerPoint presentation. Depending on whether you want the still PowerPoint image or the full functionality of the PowerPoint slide, you have some options.

Option 1: Extract the individual slide as an image file.

PowerPoint supports exporting an entire presentation or individual slides as image files (PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP and more formats supported). Since you only want to extract one slide from PowerPoint: do as this: first highlight the slide to export in PowerPoint (Either in the Slide Sorter or Normal view. Change view by View > Slide Sorter or Normal from the menu). Next, choose File > Save As. In the pop up dialog, change the Save as Type from .ppt/.pptx to an image format like GIF, JPG or PNG. Click the Save button and then PowerPoint will display the option to export the entire slideshow as individual images or only the current slide as followed. Here select Current Slide Only. Now you extracted one slide from entire PowerPoint slideshow.

Option 2: Extract a fully functional PowerPoint Slide.

If what you want is to extract one slide with all the features of the PowerPoint slide, select the slide, copy the slide and paste extracted slide into a new PowerPoint presentation. Save this new presentation as a single slide presentation so that you can use extracted PowerPoint slide later.

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5 Ways to Convert PowerPoint to Video
How to convert PowerPoint to YouTube video with PPT2Video