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PAPER SHOW
People who give presentations on a big screen, often like to draw on a tablet connected to their PC, to emphasize or call attention to a diagram. But the tablet provides no visual feedback; you have to...
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MICROSOFT STUFF
Calendar Template Microsoft Office Online (office.microsoft.com) has really improved its site. Here’s some new free stuff we thought useful: – Get templates for creating a newsletter for the whole...
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NEARLY WORD PERFECT
WordPerfect is an iconic word processor, known in song and story. Okay, so we’re exaggerating a bit, but the fact is, this was the first big-time word processor and millions of users became addicted to...
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USING MICROSOFT OFFICE ON FACEBOOK
For those who want to share Microsoft Office documents with Facebook friends, or switch back and forth between editing a document on the web or their desktop, try this one: Start at docs.com, sign in...
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POWERPOINT ON THE WEB
PowerPoint presentations on the web We’ve been subjected to boring Powerpoint slideshows for years, and they still won’t go away. So rather than fight the situation, we have surrendered. Here’s how to...
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A CHEAPER INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD
When we were in school, there was blackboard and “chalk,” a primitive writing tool. The Epson “IU-01 Interactive Module” connects to a computer to turn an ordinary projector plus wall into an...
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TABLE TOP MOVIE SCREEN
You’re about to do a presentation and you’re looking around the room for a blank wall to project your show. So what you need is a portable movie screen that can sit at the end of the conference table...
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BULLET PROOF
Just two weeks before Joy was scheduled to give a PowerPoint presentation at a statewide convention for P.E.O. women’s clubs, she was sent a copy of the book, “Beyond Bullet Points” to review. Death by...
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ONLINE TRAINING MADE EASY
Mindflash.com is a web-based service that makes it easy to create online courses. It’s free if you have ten trainees or less. Upload a PowerPoint file, a PDF, or a Word file, and away you go. At each...
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DESKTOP PUBLISHING
It seems like desktop publishing has been around since the Ten Commandments went viral. But we didn’t realize how sophisticated it has become until we tried the new “PagePlus x6” from Serif.com. For a...
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LEARNING THROUGH PICTURES
InPics.net teaches with pictures. They have tutorials for Microsoft Office, web coding (PHP, MySQL, and so on), and OpenOffice.org.
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PRESENT YOURSELF
“Present Yourself,” by Seeborg and Meyer, $25 from OReilly.com, is about SlideShare, a free program used by 60 million people. They call it “the Youtube of PowerPoint presentations.” Slideshare lets...
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NOW PRESENTING
Every time Joy picks someone to be a speaker at her woman’s club, they moan about the lack of a laser pointer for their PowerPoint presentation. We found one that’s so useful we may have to get it. The...
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GETTING A NEW WINDOWS 8 COMPUTER
Just when we thought we’d heard every complaint about Windows 8 computers, we heard a new one. A friend wondered where in the world she should save her files, because now she sees two choices:...
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WHITEBOARD MAGIC
Epson has a new projector that turns your wall into a giant iPad. Anything you can do on an iPad you can also do on the wall by tapping on a whiteboard projected onto a wall. It’s called the...
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NOW PRESENTING
For our history club, we selected the history of candy and used Microsoft’s PowerPoint for slides. But our niece tells us we are not as hip, fast-moving and aware as we thought, because these days all...
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OFFICE POLITICS
Almost 50 percent of workers surveyed by the staffing agency Robert Half said that office politics were necessary to get ahead. Of the 80 percent of workers who experienced office politics on the...
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