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.

Our first November update is now out and contains a minor list of of improvments.

By order of appearance:

• Web page compression
  • All pages are now compressed to improve the time it takes to transfer a page to the user. Users in Europe and the US may not see a difference but hopefully users over in Asia and down-under will see an improved page generation.
• Embed functionality
  • Till now you have only been able to link to presentations that you have found on SlideFinder. As of today you can also embed a presentation within your own website or blog. See below for an example.
• Faster searches
  • We have made some improvments to the search engine that should show up to 13 seconds improvments in special cases.
• Diminished space between slides and increased right column

Recently found a compilation of Dilbert cartoons relating to PowerPoint on PowerPoint Ninja's blog. Most of them are quite fun and if you have some time over I strongly recommend you to have a look. My personal favorite is the following

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

Conducted by a leading PowerPoint expert : Ellen Finklestein Book your calendars: 18th Nov 11 am Pacific Time

Learn to engage & involve your audience. They don't want to be passive!

There's a new way to present and it doesn't involve standing in front of an audience and talking. People have gone from sitting passively in front of a TV or movie screen to interacting on a computer or mobile device. Are you ready for the change?

Interactive presentation skills are important for your career! Learn how to:

• Involve your audience from the first few minutes
• Engage your audience throughout your presentation
• Start a conversation—and carry it through
• Use audience feedback to guide your content
• Use PowerPoint to structure an interactive presentation

Includes a Question & Answer period—because I believe in interactivity!

Register yourself : http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/events/training_webinar_interactive_presentations.html

About Ellen Finklestein
Ellen Finkelstein has been using AutoCAD since 1986 and PowerPoint since 1996. She is a recognized expert, speaker, and best-selling author on AutoCAD, PowerPoint, and presenting effectively. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, newsletters, and blogs. She is Associate Editor of Inside PowerPoint, published by Eli Journals.

The webinar is sponsored by Raptivity Presenter and YawnBuster.
Raptivity Presenter helps you create meaningful and expressive interactions for your presentations quickly and easily. YawnBuster helps you to Easily add high-impact group activities to your PowerPoint slides

Visit Presentation.harbingergoup.com for more details.

We are happy to announce that Hindi has been added as an interface language to the search engine. We would like to express our thanks to Ajit Sheth and his wife Jyoti Sheth.

An upgrade to the Polish interface has been made where some parts of the translation were not optimal.

We will be coming out with some new exiting features, planned for November so please keep your eyes opened.

SlideFinder team

We would like to thank Radoslaw Koscik for providing Polish as an interface language to SlideFinder. SlideFinder is now available in eight different languages.

A while ago, we added the possibility to set SlideFinder as one of your preferred search engines by just clicking a link:

This will enable you to search using SlideFinder through the browser’s search box.

Along side the increased South Korean traffic we are also seeing an increase in traffic from Japan, and Japanese presentation indexing will therefore also be a priority.

We are happy to see a dramatic increase of visitors coming from South Korea. We are therefore working on indexing presentations from South Korea from now on. We still do not have a working interface in Korean so if someone feels like doing a quick translation you are welcome to contact us here.