PowerPoint Helpers
My Favourite Additions when Working with PowerPoint
You buy additional software to extend the capabilities of PowerPoint or to make your life easier - or both. The developers have sweated over them so you don’t have to, and the cost reflects development time and the support available. The resources I list below are ones I’ve used and I’ve rated them according to my opinion of their main benefits:
saves time – lets you work more efficiently
adds wow – enhances your message and image
reduces hassle – fewer tears and less hair pulling
helps delivery – for you as a presenter or to remote audiences
amuses audiences – people wake when they hear laughter and are relieved to find that they are not the cause of it!
Opazity
Opazity is my own product. It helps presenters catch, hold and maintain an audience’s attention by blurring, and therefore hinting at, something to be revealed. For the first time without leaving PowerPoint it is possible to fill PowerPoint shapes with a fuzzy image of the underlying slide. Find out why you would want to do that…
Perspector
The Perspector add-in for PowerPoint just gets better and better. But then, as Sales and Operations Director for Visual Exemplars, I am biased! Seriously, it’s the only add-in to consider if you want to lift PowerPoint into the third dimension. Here’s why…
Presentations in a Hurry
When you know what you want to say but are unsure of how to structure it to best effect, Presentations in a Hurry come to your rescue. Learn more…
NXPowerLite
Save space on your computer, network, and in emails with this simple-to-use but sophisticated PowerPoint and other Office document compression software. Read all about it…
Animation Carbon
You take ages to set up an impressive animation sequence, to find that to reproduce it, you have to start all over again. Not with Animation Carbon! Save your sequences and re-use them with a few clicks. Check it out…
PowerFinish Templates
There are lots of free PowerPoint templates available on the web, but these are so well designed, I’d buy them. Let me tell you why I did…
SnagIt and Camtaisa
Not PowerPoint as such, but if you ever need to use screenshots, get Snag-it. It truly is the program you don’t know you need until you use it! Let me tell you more…
PPT Merge
It’s like mail merge, but for PowerPoint slides. A fantastic time saver if you need stuff imported onto separate slides. No more tedious cutting and pasting! See other treasures too…
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