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Before there were presentations, there were conversations, which were a little like presentations but used fewer bullet points, and no one had to dim the lights. A woman we can call Sarah Wyndham, a defense-industry consultant living in Alexandria, Virginia, recently began to feel that her two daughters weren't listening when she asked them to clean their bedrooms and do their chores. So, one morning, she sat down at her computer, opened Microsoft's PowerPoint program, and used it.
Parker, Ian. Ohio State University, The. Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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Animations Combination: Exploding Effect
In this presentation, you will learn how to create an explode effect on pictures.
Tohlz, Shawn. PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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Animations Combination: Leaf Motion Effect
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make the motion of a leaf moving in the wind. It can be easily done with the combinations of Motion Path, Spin and Swivel Effects.
Tohlz, Shawn. PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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This blog will share with you guys about The Art of PowerPoint-ing, creating advanced and amazing animations, and many more!
PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Blogs
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AuthorIT: Time-Saving Techniques Using AuthorIT 
A presentation about techniques one could employ using AuthorIT.
Bracey, Rhonda. CyberText Consulting (2005). Presentations>Documentation>Software
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Automatic Slideshow, Delay before Slide Advances
You are making a slide show which runs automatically throughout your presentation without the needs of mouse clicking or entering of keyboard. The automatic slideshow can be photographs presentations and etc. In every slide, you realize that the slide advances to another slide immediately after the last animation ends. The result? Audience does not have the chance to read your slides because it moves too quickly. You will need to make some delay so that all your slides will pause for a while before going to the next one. There are few ways to achieve this. This tutorial will cover two simple methods.
Tohlz, Shawn. PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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Choosing a Help Authoring Tool
Discusses in detail why you might want to consider a specific tool for help authoring.
James-Tanny, Char. Helpstuff (2004). Presentations>Documentation>Software>Help
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Chances are you have watched your best intentions evaporate under pressure, to find yourself tweaking PowerPoint slides in the desperate hours or minutes before your presentation, scrambling to make time for a quick rehearsal and hoping against hope that you'll be able to pull off a miracle. Indeed, if good intentions paid dividends, plenty of presenters would have tidy sums to add to their retirement nest eggs. Procrastination being the force of nature it is, however, no matter how much lead time presenters give themselves and no matter how many resources are at their disposal, more often than not, the presentation-development process devolves from noble ambitions to utter chaos.
Zielinski, Dave. Presentations (2002). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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Many FrameMaker users need to publish their documents on the World Wide Web. The best approach is to use a converter, which preserves the format and organization of the original FrameMaker document. Good converters can handle long, complex documents that contain elements such as table of contents, index, line drawings, bitmap graphics, tables, footnotes, and equations. We discuss the benefits of having a single source document for paper and Web, the techniques for creating documents that can be converted easily, and the powerful conversion tools available today.
Jackson, Ken and Sonya E. Keene. STC Proceedings (1998). Presentations>Web Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
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Convince the Crowd With Presentations and Diagrams
Why just get by with a boring presentation when you can create a dynamite Microsoft Office PowerPoint® presentation or a colorful Microsoft Office Visio® diagram? Get ready to impress the big boss or the new team with simple ideas that go a long way.
Microsoft. Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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COTS: The New Challenge of Information Integration
Systems engineering is moving away from specially-designed and built systems to integration of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software. COTS brings new challenges to technical communicators. In the past, we found all our information in-house, now it comes from many sources. We must change our process from pure development to information integration, and we must be part of the COTS selection process.
Lenk, Donald S. Jr. STC Proceedings (1998). Presentations>Information Design>Software
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Create a Voice Presentation With Impress and Audacity 
Building a basic presentation that records and uses voice may be an important tool for communicating information. This project is based on employing two programs, Impress, which is the presentation program with OpenOffice, and Audacity, an easy to use sound editor, for building a voice presentation.
SpiderTools (2004). Articles>Presentations>Software>OpenOffice
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Creating a Simple Traditional Countdown in a PowerPoint Presentation
An article featuring steps on how to create a traditional countdown using custom animations in PowerPoint.
Tohlz, Shawn. PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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Creating Presentations with OperaShow
An article discussing how to use the Opera Web browser as a presentation tool.
Nesbitt, Scott. InformIT (2004). Articles>Presentations>Software
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An Effective PowerPoint Presentation Requires More Skill than Clipart 
PowerPoint is the jacks-or-better of the corporate world--you've got to have it in order to stay in the game. Just try giving a seminar without PowerPoint or showing up at a meeting with, gasp, paper handouts. I live in mortal fear that my eulogy will be delivered as a broken PowerPoint stack.
TechRepublic (2007). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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Enlarge Image in Slide Show, Retaining Quality
Often when doing a presentation, you may want to enlarge an image using Emphasis: Grow effect in PowerPoint 2002/XP and above. You probably want to show a clearer view of a photograph. But enlarging with the Grow effect often ends up getting the image blurry/jagged. Now it looks ugly, you wouldn't want to show others an enlarged but poor quality picture, do you? When inserting the image, have it at the enlarged size. If you shrink the image and then enlarge it again, the quality will retain. But how do you shrink an image without the audience knowing? See the steps below.
PowerPoint Heaven (2005). Resources>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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How to Put a Web Browser on a PowerPoint Slide
A procedural guide for incorporating a web interface into PowerPoint slides.
William Horton Consulting (2001). Presentations>Graphic Design>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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HTML Conversion Tools: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
The documentation conversion tool market is relatively new, but several vendors have established reputations in the market.
Laurent, J. Suzanna and Candie D. McKee. STC Orange County (1998). Presentations>Web Design>Software>HTML
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Indezine has evolved as a platform for PowerPoint presentations, presentation software, image editing and clip media.
Bajaj, Geetesh. Indezine. Resources>Presentations>Software>Blogs
#15148
Discusses how to prepare a PowerPoint slide show.
Nielan, Cate. Intercom (2001). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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While the cultural scoreboard may be invisible, this much is indisputable: the PowerPoint people are winning.
Keller, Julia. SiliconValley.com (2003). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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Mike Hamilton Gives Flare Demo to the STC Suncoast Chapter
Mike Hamilton from Madcap Software visited the Suncoast chapter in Tampa, Florida, and presented on Flare. In this presentation, he talks about the story behind RoboHelp and Macromedia/Adobe (this blew my mind). He also provides a lot of inside detail on Flare.
Hamilton, Mike and Tom H. Johnson. Tech Writer Voices (2007). Presentations>Documentation>Software>Madcap Flare
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Non-Linear PowerPoint Presentations
This non-linear PowerPoint tutorial will help you plan and create a presentation using some of the advanced branching and linking tools. You'll be able use the common drawing tools to design a simple user interface and navigation scheme.
Guides and Tutorials (2006). Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
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Online Authoring Tools: Descriptions and Demonstrations
It’s sometimes difficult to determine which tool is right for a particular job. This demonstration shows the types of online documentation projects that are best suited to each of three online authoring tools: Dot-To-Help by WexTech Systems, ToolBook by Asymetrix, and RoboHelp by Blue Sky Software. Technical writers who have used these products to create online help projects will discuss feature comparisons, system requirements for both author and user of the online documentation, and limitations of the tools. By seeing demonstrations of the authoring tools and the projects created with these tools, attendees should have a better understanding of what each tool can help them accomplish.
Roddy, Laurie C. and Lee S. Turner. STC Proceedings (1995). Presentations>Documentation>Software>Adobe RoboHelp
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PowerPoint 2003: A Comprehensive Overview of the New Features of the New Version
The new features of PowerPoint 2003 are both prominent and subtle, but before we start discussing PowerPoint further, there is some thing important you need to know about Office 2003: Office 2003 requires a minimum operating system of Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3 or later), or Windows XP (preferred). For the Package to CD feature in PowerPoint 2003, you need Office XP to be able to package direct to CD from within PowerPoint. Okay, now we can get down to busi ness...
Millar, Glen. Presenters University. Articles>Presentations>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
