In a recent survey by online presentation company, SlideRocket1, 24% of respondents said they would rather forgo sex tonight than sit through a PowerPoint presentation. Those must be some pretty bad slides! The survey consisted of 1,003 adults who use office software on a daily basis. Of those surveyed, 24% stated that boring slides had…

There is a new movement in Swiss politics, and it’s Anti-PowerPoint! Matthias Poehm, President of the Anti-PowerPoint Party of Switzerland is blaming PowerPoint presentations for a negative economic impact in 193 countries worldwide. Poehm calculates that 85% of employees and students who view presentations with PowerPoint feel that the slides are “killing motivation,” and the…

When PowerPoint 2007 was released, one of the changes from PPT 2003 was how footers and page numbers are handled. The main difference being that the newer versions allow the page numbers to be modified on the individual slides, where in PPT 2003 they were only editable on the slide master. In some cases the…

Migrating to a new technology always presents some hurdles. Even in environments with a small number of users there can be issues, but when you are dealing with large organizations and thousands of users those can become more challenging. In helping our clients eSlide sees a lot of these tech troubles, and when we identify…

This was a problem that we ran into while trying to create a new chart in an existing placeholder. It began after installing Office 2007 Service Pack 2. We had the problem on systems with Windows XP Professional, as well as Windows 7. When clicking on the chart icon within the content placeholder, it brings…

eSlide works with many different companies on several different presentations each day. This means that we see more than your average number of presentation templates. All too often we see clients having trouble because they are trying to use a template that doesn’t provide enough guidance or is not built correctly. This can lead to…

While setting up a template in PowerPoint 2010, we wanted to establish the default text style for any new text boxes placed locally on a slide. The placeholders, which were setup in the slide layouts, have been formatted and any text entered into them will adhere to the predetermined styles. This additional step will account…

As of this writing, Microsoft has yet to release iOS apps for the core Office applications, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. Given that, we are still searching for the best tools to facilitate editing, sharing, and presenting PowerPoint. In the past, eSlide has tested DocsToGo, GoodReader, Google Docs, Keynote, QuickOffice Pro HD, SlideRocket, and SlideShark. Most…

By Bob Berkowitz (www.bobberkowitz.com), Principal at The Dilenschneider Group When you give a speech, you have an opportunity to get your audience to see their world differently. This as an opportunity to influence them and get them to take action. These points are designed to help you become a more powerful, persuasive and confident speaker….

An actual email last night at 10:11pm to eSlide: “We’ll call you in a few minutes to discuss the edits here. FYI – I may or may not be heading to the hospital with my wife who is expecting our 2nd child any day now. Please send all of the updates requested going forward to…