Just came across a pretty cool page at Microsoft Office online. It contains well over twenty FREE courses regarding PowerPoint 2007.

Just follow this link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102184981033.aspx and sit back for hours of FREE powerPoint training.

Here is another usefull link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/CH100740871033.aspx?IO_CL=5266 with rouglhy 70 PowerPoint 2007 demos.

The Crabby Office Lady has written a nice article that demystifies various PowerPoint terms.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint is one flexible, useful program. And it's fun to use, too. But does one mention of a slide master or a design template have you fleeing the room? Learn some of the basic terms for PowerPoint and don't be scared off again.

These are the terms she covers:

• Slide
• Layout
• Placeholders
• Design template
• Theme
• Slide master
• Photo album
• Embedded and linked files
• Transitions
• Action buttons

 Here's how to get to the article: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102341441033.aspx

We have now released a Beta version of SlideFinder Add-in for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. The Add-in is available in English, Swedish, German, Spanish and Russian at the moment.

English
The SlideFinder Add-in, a new PowerPoint^® 2007 Ribbon, lets you search the web for presentations and slides from within PowerPoint^®. The SlideFinder Add-in also enables you to add the slides you find to your current presentation.
http://tools.slidefinder.net/addin-en.aspx

Русский
SlideFinder, для PowerPoint^® 2007 Ribbon, осущесвляет поиск презентаций и слайдов из PowerPoint^® в Интернете. SlideFinder Add-in также позволит Вам добавить слайды в Вашу текущую презентацию.
http://tools.slidefinder.net/AddIn-ru.aspx

Español
El SlideFinder Add-in, una nueva cinta PowerPoint^® 2007, le permite buscar el web para encontrar presentations y diapositivas desde PowerPoint^®. El SlideFinder Add-in le permite añadir las diapositivas que encuentra a su presentacion.
http://tools.slidefinder.net/AddIn-es.aspx

Svenska
SlideFinder Add-in, en ny PowerPoint^® 2007 Ribbon, låter dig söka efter presentationer och bilder på nätet innifrån PowerPoint^®. Du kan också lägga till de bilder du hittar till din nuvarande presentation i PowerPoint^®.
http://tools.slidefinder.net/AddIn-sv.aspx

Wow, I guess I should be used with the time it takes to deploy an application. Seems like π is still a very important factor in all time estimates. Feels like we are working on those 10% that take 90% of the time right now. Anyhow, I believe we are indeed closing in on a release. By the end of this week we should have a fully functional PowerPoint 2007 Add-in that enebles you to search the web for PowerPoint slides from within PowerPoint itself.

One of our SlideFinder Add-In tester came back to us today with a few questions. He said he loved the functionality but still was a bit unsure as to the advantage of using SlideFinder instead of Google for example. I thought I'd write down some of the advantages as I see them:

• SlideFinder will return only the slides that match your query - Google, or any regular search engine, will return the entire presentation or in fact a link to the presentation.
• You have to download the entire presentation from Google to see the slide. Let say the presentation contains 100 slides, now you have to go through the entire presentation in order to find that specific slide.
• Using the advanced search lets you narrow down your search even further. If you want a slide with a specific word in the title and a specific word in the text; simply enter that in the search form and SlideFinder will present you with a number of slides that correspond to that exact query.
• When looking at a presentation in SlideFinder, the search engine will also show you similar presentations.
• SlideFinder is simply better at finding individual slides as well as presenting them to you.

Using our Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Add-In will further increase that experience by letting you perform searches from within PowerPoint 2007.