Other PowerPoint-related sites

PPTools
Shape Styles brings the power of styles to PowerPoint. Apply complex formatting with a single click
Merge Excel, CSV or tab-delimited data into PowerPoint presentations to create certificates, awards presentations, personalized presentations and more
FixLinks prevents broken links when you distribute PowerPoint presentations
Optimizer saves disk space and bandwidth, shrinks your PowerPoint presentations to the right size for email, screenshow or printing
PPT2HTML gives you full control of PowerPoint HTML output, helps meet Section 508 accessibility requirements
Prep4PDF preserves interactivity in PowerPoint presentations when you convert to PDF
Image Export converts PowerPoint slides to JPG, PNG, GIF, WMF and more

Some of these links are to PowerPoint-specific sites, others are of more general interest to PowerPoint users and presenters. Many of these are commercial sites, but all freely provide valuable information.

PowerPoint-specific sites

• INDEZINE by Geetesh Bajaj INDEZINE has quickly become one of the best PowerPoint sites on the net; lots of reviews, links and more.
• Tutorials and more from PowerPoint MVP Echo Swinford
• PowerPoint MVP Shyam Pillai's site specializing in VBA programming for PowerPoint
• PowerPoint Backgrounds has some first-rate tutorials on linking, using images in PowerPoint and more.
• Excel MVP Tushar Mehta also has a PowerPoint section on his site with some useful information
• Glen Millar's treasure trove of "outside-the-box" ideas
• Get advice on PowerPoint at OnPPT (of course!)
• PowerPoint MVP Glenna Shaw focuses on accessibility issues at The PowerPoint Magician
• PowerPoint MVP Bill Foley runs Professional Training Technologies
• PowerPoint MVP Chirag Dalal's Office One site includes add-ins, PowerPoint tips and VBA hints.
• Steven J. Bell, Director of the Paul J. Gutman Library at Philadelphia University maintains this informative site that includes a great deal of valuable information about PowerPoint to HTML conversions.
• For those of us who use presentation software, there's the aptly named We Who Use Presentation Software by Steve Hards, of Perspector fame.
• BetterSolutions.com focuses primarily on Exel but is developing more PowerPoint material. They have a particularly good section on PowerPoint's Tools, Options dialog.
• Presentation Masters
• Microsoft

If PowerPoint animation is your thing, check out:

• The tutorials at PowerPoint Heaven
• PowerPoint MVP Glen Millar's site is a goldmine of "outside the box" PowerPoint animation tips.

Presentations in general
Presentations Magazine is the best publication I know of that serves the needs of people who create presentations or who get up in front of an audience and deliver them.

Related sites

• CreativePro: articles, stock photography search feature
• Color Matters
• Effective meetings
• DesignSense
• Basic FAQ about PDF, PostScript and EPS

Useful Software

• If you use PowerPoint, you need PPTools. What could be more obvious?
• Sonia Coleman and Steve Hetrick of Aladat have created an automated program for creating self-running CDs from your PowerPoint presentations.
• PowerPoint MVP Shyam Pillai's Image Importer Wizard and others in the works are superb additions to PowerPoint at very moderate prices.
• There's an awful lot of good software available at moderate prices or even for free. Check out a few of these shareware sites for downloable programs.
• Download.com

VBA Programming

• PowerPoint MVP Shyam Pillai's site.
• Chris Ray's site

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