A Picture + 1000 Words…

Dazzle with PowerPoint

Office At Work — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:43:19 GMT

We regularly say that there's so much good stuff on Office Online that it's hard to keep up with it all.

Cool PowerPoint & a green holiday card

Inside Office Online blog — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:37:54 GMT

Some recent posts from our fellow Office Onliners in the UK caught my eye this week. --Doug Gill found

Cool PowerPoint

Inside Office Online blog — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:52:57 GMT

Another recent post from our fellow Office Onliners in the UK that caught my eye this week.  

Impressive effects in PowerPoint

Bit-cycling — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:17:50 GMT

Not too long ago, I joined the PowerPoint team. Thought I spend most of my time working on a related

re: A Picture + 1000 Words…

Ellen Finkelstein — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:44:45 GMT

Wow! That's all I can say. They are amazing. And the complete instructions! I don't think anything of this quality has ever been released with instructions. I am in awe.

Taking Graphics and Text to the Next Level in PowerPoint

Ian Palangio's Business Productivity — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:42:31 GMT

With the introduction of Office 2007, a new feature called SmartArt was included that allowed anybody

Must have IE

Laura Bergells — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:53:28 GMT

The only way you can download these seems to be if you install IE on your computer.

Won't work with newest versions of Chrome or FF or Safari.

Amazing...

Wayne Kao — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:03:16 GMT

These are awesome...

Downloading was a royal pain though. Would have been nice to have one simple file to download rather than:

- Having it fail to download in Firefox, which required opening IE and re-navigating to the webpage.

- Having to install an Office-specific ActiveX control then run it to see whether my Office install was genuine.

- Having to download each of the 8 files individually.

Seriously?

Templates so cool, I want to make a presentation

Inside Office Online blog — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:15:48 GMT

Saw these cool PowerPoint templates have been tagged in a number of blogs, originally listed at the PowerPoint

re: A Picture + 1000 Words…

RicB — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:35:45 GMT

Yes, Laura and Wayne, as far as I know IE is required to work with the Office Online content. Office ownership is required to access this content and an ActiveX control is downloaded to manage that confirmation and handle the download. Unfortunately Firefox and Chrome don't support ActiveX so they can't be used in this process.

I'll send the feedback to the responsible parties about getting the whole thing in one download though. That sounds like a no-brainer to me. Thanks.

And a shout out and finger point at Wayne who is an ex-PPT developer and author of "Advanced Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007." An article, interview, and links to the book is at:

http://talk.presentationsroundtable.com/2008/03/08/advanced-authors-write-advanced-books.aspx

Cheers,

-Ric

Thanks for sharing Ric..

Axa — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:22:26 GMT

i definately agree with you, many times, picture can explain better than what words able to..

thanks ric !

re: A Picture + 1000 Words…

Steve James — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:23:16 GMT

The IETab Firefox plug in can help alleviate this issue. I configure it to default to IE for rendering any download or template URL at MS