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What are you going to be doing with the PowerPoint's? What do you mean with look sharp?
The experts, whoever they are, say that fancy is "out" and simple is "in". Powerpoint was way cool in 1995. Today, death by powerpoint is the mantra.

My soap box runeth over......

If you want to load up with 3D effects, transitions, etc...

https://www.crystalgraphics.com/PowerPoint/presentations.main.asp

Great design suggestions: https://www.bamagazine.com/

about halfway down is an excellent document about how to make presentations (subscription is required..about 18 dollars).

Hope these help you.

Darcy Moen
www.customerloyaltynetwork.com

If you are looking for powerpoint templates that are free to download go to this link for Microsoft.

https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT011377351033.aspx

I have used this site to access many template with free downloads. A lot of them are pretty creative depending on your subject matter and rated by users also.

Hey,

try this.
https://www.sharewareconnection.com/titles/powerpoint-plugins.htm

They have some cool Graphics, Background, Video tools. You can even convert ur PPT to Flash or Video or create a DVD. Or u could simply include a flash clip in your .ppt.

They also have plugins that you can use to convert ur .ppt to an executable which can even be run as a screen saver.

This place has over 100 plugins. So if you just visit this site, u might be able to find some plugins that will fit ur needs exactly!

Hope this helped!!

Some food for thought.

FYI, most people seem to associate PowerPoint with presentations and aren't aware it is used by various professionals to create marketing and sales collateral for print. Your presentations, of course, can be converted into collateral in addition to creating the docs. from the start with PPT software.

While they have Quark and other designer programs in their creative services depts, global firms I've worked for largely use PPT to make brochures, meeting documents, wall posters, etc especially when people are short on time for various reasons -- it's standard with MS Office Suite so it's readiy available, and because managers/corporate leaders can make last minute corrections on the documents themselves before they approve them for the print shop. This is particularly helpful during rush projects when managers involved are located in different geographic areas and graphic designers aren't readily available to change that number "10,000" to "100" or correct spelling.

Depending on timing, client content requirements and staff/consultant availability, graphics designers or comms./mktg. professionals create the brochures, inserts, etc.

In a meeting with a client, the media, government official, shareholder, etc., presenting them with correct information makes a difference and is more important than "fancy" designs when someone is facing tight deadlines (which is common in some fields). Preparing templates in advance to present a quality, consistent look can go a long way to help your business.

Good luck in future ventures!

MC

An interesting add on has been developed by some pals of Herr Prof. OD Creutzfeldt (Son of the bloke who discovered Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s disease)

Amid their work on neural sodium channel expressions and other areas of brain physiology, they thought that it would be fun to link up various human-physiological inputs to visual and audio feedback systems in their lab. The result was a whole-body monitoring system which was akin to doing an LSD trip without the drugs.

A spin off was to link the audio-visual output to PowerPoint software to “Express” some “emotion” from the words, images and tables buried within them. Shades of Douglas Adams and his musical spreadsheets, but it was extremely entertaining. Certainly sharpened up some dry seminars at the last Congress of the Brain Research Association I went to at Konstanz (Constance to you in the USA!)

Steve Alker
Unimax Solutions