Shasoosh Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I'm looking for a "cooler" power point tool to give a presentation with. I don't care paying for the thing as long as i'll get a nicer flashy exhibition the the regular redundant presentations we see every day. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 macf13nd Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Powerpoint is fairly flexible. You should be able to make presentations as 'cool' as you like, depending of course on your inherent creativity and nous for 'cool'. This is like asking for a different word processing package than Word, in order to make your novel more exciting. Well, not quite, but almost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 If you have access to a Mac (with iWork installed), then Keynote gives you some pretty impressive templates out of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Eric Veteran Posted June 24, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 24, 2009 You could take a look at Scala's products. I'm not 100% sure how they work now but they used to be "the thing" for presentations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 White Cuban Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 well, i never had a mac, and my pocket won't give me one anytime soon, but from what i saw Mac's Presentation in iWork is pretty sleek, though im pretty sure PPT 2007 would be more verstiile, Mac presentations have sleekness, well, considering you situation, you can make PPT and somehow merge it with flash, use a movie editing software and make it a movie, you can combine them both to be pretty powerful with some tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 richardsim7 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 If you have access to a Mac (with iWork installed), then Keynote gives you some pretty impressive templates out of the box. +1 -Rich- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 shakey_snake Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 how about s5? http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ Uses a standards-based browser, some javascript and CSS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Arpit Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 it seems to me you're more interested in a flashy template than a software...maybe you should search for those instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 M_Lyons10 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 it seems to me you're more interested in a flashy template than a software...maybe you should search for those instead? Yeah, perhaps you could tell us what exactly it is that you are trying to do and can't seem to do with PowerPoint? PowerPoint is incredibly versatile, allowing you to do most anything with some advanced knowledge and most things with relatively little knowledge. It's really a pretty good presentation tool. If you don't like any of the templates packaged with PowerPoint, there are more on Microsoft's website, and countless other sites on the net (Just search for PowerPoint Templates). It would really help if we knew what it was you were trying to do though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 giantpotato Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 In my experience it's best to keep presentations simple. Flashy transitions are just distracting. You want people to be thinking about the content of the presentation, not the animation that was just shown. IMO most of the time "flashy" presentations are only done by students who are using power point for the first time and have just discovered transitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ironman273 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I messed around with Prezi for a bit. I quit when I prepared a presentation for work, wanted to tweak it a little the night before and the server was unavailable till the next day... They say it won't happen again, but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DaveLegg Developer Posted June 24, 2009 Developer Share Posted June 24, 2009 Give pptPlex a try, it's an add-in for powerpoint made by MS. I saw a demo when I was at HQ in Reading, and it looked pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Brian M. Veteran Posted June 24, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 24, 2009 As said above, the best presentations I've seen have come from Keynote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 M_Lyons10 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 In my experience it's best to keep presentations simple. Flashy transitions are just distracting. You want people to be thinking about the content of the presentation, not the animation that was just shown. IMO most of the time "flashy" presentations are only done by students who are using power point for the first time and have just discovered transitions. Absolutely right. Too much glitz (Or inappropriate glitz) has a way of looking very noobish... A clean look is best and much more professional. With that said, sometimes you do have to do certain things that are more advanced (Such as embed Flash, etc.). If that is the sort of thing you're trying to do, we can certainly help. I'm just not sure what exactly you're looking to do, so I don't know what direction to point you in. Give pptPlex a try, it's an add-in for powerpoint made by MS. I saw a demo when I was at HQ in Reading, and it looked pretty cool. *sigh* I miss Office Labs already... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shasoosh Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 Powerpoint is fairly flexible. You should be able to make presentations as 'cool' as you like, depending of course on your inherent creativity and nous for 'cool'.This is like asking for a different word processing package than Word, in order to make your novel more exciting. Well, not quite, but almost! I don't think its like that at all. I'd love to see you do something like that in Powerpoint.. :) That's the angle btw. I don't really know what i'm trying to accomplish but when my sister asked me if there's another software she can use for her huge presentation, something that will stand out a instead of the boring powerpoint "wipe to the left" transitions i knew what she was talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 BajiRav Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/template....aspx?av=ZPP000 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 M_Lyons10 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I don't think its like that at all. I'd love to see you do something like that in Powerpoint.. :)That's the angle btw. I don't really know what i'm trying to accomplish but when my sister asked me if there's another software she can use for her huge presentation, something that will stand out a instead of the boring powerpoint "wipe to the left" transitions i knew what she was talking about. That's impressive. If that's what you want, why not use that? It does look nice. The Office Labs pptPlex has similar functionality, but I don't know how deep that goes. I just downloaded it to try it out today actually. It does look promising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shasoosh Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 I just signed up but i can't write there in Hebrew so it doesn't help me much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 primexx Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 problem with iWork is that it's also a widespread presentation software. it has different sets of templates from Powerpoint, and they look sleek for a windows audience who's not had much contact with apple presentations, but iWork also gets really boring really fast once you start using it. If you want "cool" presentations every time, you'll need to custom build it yourself every time using something like Electric Rain's Standout, but it involves much more work (and money) than your average presentation needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 zhangm Supervisor Posted June 24, 2009 Supervisor Share Posted June 24, 2009 Make your content interesting. Do you have jokes, anecdotes, colorful analogies, questions? The content is going to make or break the presentation more than the slides that you show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I'm looking for a "cooler" power point tool to give a presentation with.
I don't care paying for the thing as long as i'll get a nicer flashy exhibition the the regular redundant presentations we see every day.
Thanks
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