Microsoft PowerPoint is certainly the best and the most used presentation software used on earth today. Presentation can be a great resource to share ideas, collaborate or showcase your work to the respective audience or gathering. I have been making presentations throughout my life, starting from school time where we had to present our work and prepare a presentation for it. At that time, Microsoft PowerPoint was the only solution we had and we never looked into any alternatives. However, the world has changed and we always look for software which can do our work cost and time effectively. I have a collected some of the presentation software that can be very useful for various purposes. The software are categorized into online and offline. The online software need no installation. They will open in a browser and you can easily make presentations using them. The offline software will be installed on your computer and will work even without Internet.
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Best Alternatives To Microsoft PowerPoint (Online And Offline)
Oomfo: Create Stunning Charts for PowerPoint Presentations
The PowerPoint today is more than just a simple slideshow. A great presentation involves more than just presenting facts and figures, but also to impress your audience with fanciful animations and effects. Although PowerPoint offers an impressive array of chart types and options, almost all of them have been used exhaustively in presentations. Therefore when people view a PowerPoint chart, they do not feel that anything new or unique has been added to the presentation.
Offering a solution to this is “Oomfo” – an application that adds Flash-based charts to your PowerPoint presentations.
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Quanp Adds Microsoft Office Addin, Allowing You to Manage Your Online Files
Quanp, the online storage service that gives you a whopping 10GB of free storage space has now come up with another way for you to utilize your account – Microsoft Office Addin. If you are not aware, quanp has been pretty active in developing interactive widgets recently to get people to use their storage services. Widgets like quanp send, quanp.drop and quanp.on are useful stuff that you can make use of.
With this latest quanp Office addin, you will be able to download, edit, upload and share your document directly from your Office.
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How to Convert Powerpoint Presentations to Videos
Sometimes it becomes necessary to convert Powerpoint presentations into video files. The computer where you are doing the presentation may not have the necessary office software installed or you want to view the presentation in your television. In such cases, you need to convert the pptx file into proper video formats and burn the video in a CD or DVD.
Why not the screen record way?
An alternative to converting the presentation to video may be using a screen recording tool and record the entire screen while playing the presentation. This method has several disadvantages:
- You have to sit back and change the slides which can be tiring if you have a lot of slides to consider.
- The transitions may not be accurate. This means that the timing may not be the same for all the slides and you lose out on perfection.
- After the screen recording is complete, you still have to do finer adjustments and edit it anyway.
- The screen recording might not be saved in the formats you want, e.g ipod, mobile etc.
Thus it becomes necessary that you use a Powerpoint to video convertor for better results. Here is Leawo Powerpoint to video converter, a free software which can convert Powerpoint presentations to all the major video formats for use in computer, Dvd, iPod, iTouch, mobile etc.
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3 Sites to Easily Share Your Documents With Others
With all of the different ways to be social on the web, one of the things you may not think of sharing is your documents and presentations. I was surprised there are as many sites out there offering just such a service. When I really thought about it, it makes a lot of sense. These sites are they are like Youtube or Vimeo for documents.
Like many other types of social sites, these document sharing sites have the same basic idea to them; post all of your documents and presentations for all to see. Large companies like Ford use these sites to share fact sheets and marketing PDFs. They can be a really great place to research a topic or get ideas for a project you you may be stuck on.
Some of the sites offer the option to buy documents such as contracts, invoices and even ebooks. I noticed, while perusing through some of the sites, quite a few publishers and online magazines have accounts.
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