PowerPoint is an outstanding Microsoft Office application which allows you to present your data elegantly. PowerPoint is specifically used for presentation purposes; you can include graphics or other multimedia effects into the PowerPoint format while presenting the data. There are separate page layouts, tables, charts, images, clip-art, smart art, word art, superb designs, drawing features, background styles and animations. You can customize the content the way you desire and make the data appear more vividly as well as visually appealing.

Why there is a need of a PowerPoint conversion to a PDF?

There are two main reasons which coerce people to convert PowerPoint to a PDF. They are:

Usually, PowerPoint presentations are huge in size, containing a bulky content, which makes its printing a bit challenging. Suppose, if you are having more than thirty slides to print at the same time, you have to follow a long process because one slide gets printed on a single page, so you have to wait for a long time to print all the files, as well as have to invest more on printing papers as well. This makes the task cumbersome.

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Kingsoft, better known for its dictionary and security software solutions, has released Kingsoft Office 2012 Beta version. The latest version of Kingsoft’s alternative to Microsoft Office similarly consists of Kingsoft Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheet. The English language version follows the earlier release of Japanese and English versions.

The key upgrade for Kingsoft Office 2012 is the Microsoft Ribbon Interface; users can chose to use the old style Interface or the new Ribbon Interface. In addition operation is much faster when compared to previous versions, upto ten times quicker. What’s more the installation file size has been reduced.

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At Socialwok, one of the key platforms for office productivity is Microsoft Office. We are excited to announce that Socialwok has released a plug-in of Outlook, named Social Connector. This new plug-in add both social networking and collaboration functions. And the application currently supports three versions of Outlook 2010, 2007 and 2003.

As the same as Google social network, this connector allows Outlook users build a private social network. Through status updates share ideas, email, documents, Google Docs and other media documents.

Here are the key benefits of what the Socialwok Outlook Connector can do for you
- Keep track of what your co-workers and clients are working on or sharing with you
See the latest activity of any Socialwok member who e-mails you right at the bottom of the email.

- Get the latest contact information of your Socialwok
E-mail addresses, profile details, and photos from your Socialwok network will start appearing in an Outlook Contacts folder named "Socialwok" - so now you’ll always have the latest contact information from Socialwok close at hand.

Microsoft on Wednesday is formally launching Office 2010, and the SharePoint 2010 collaborative platform to its corporate customers. In addition, Microsoft has also added a free Internet version of the apps that Microsoft is calling Office Web. And it is introducing mobile access to the new suite of Microsoft Office products. Microsoft hasn't guaranteed a timetable for the consumer versions of the Web Apps, it says it expects them to arrive at the same time as the desktop suite.

Microsoft is also bringing the enhanced software suite to mobile phones. For its own, Windows Mobile phones, Microsoft has developed a mobile application, which can be downloaded onto any Windows Mobile 6.5 starting Wednesday. Another version of the app will be available for Windows Phone 7 when that is available later this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes we want to convert our documents as PDF or XPS files. Adobe Systems has develop PDF format for more than ten years, because of its alignment and conveniency, It has been a extensive open standard. Like Adobe Systems's PDF format, XPS is a fixed-layout document format designed to preserve document fidelity, providing device-independent documents appearance, you can scan or print the document through any devices.

Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs.

Download and install this tool, and restart your Microsoft Office software. Now, you can see a new item in the office menu – Save As.

Next time you want to save documents as PDF or XPS, you can use this add-in. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft developed many office tools, almost everyone must using some of them everyday. But there are so many tools that it is hard to manager them one time, and if we want to use Word, PowerPoint, Excell, … … we must open many windows to manager them. It is so inconvenient, isn't it?

Edraw Office Viewer Component makes Microsoft Office tools all in one. Edraw Office Viewer Component contains a standard ActiveX control that acts as an ActiveX document container for hosting Office documents (including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Visio documents) in a custom form or Web page. The control is lightweight and flexible, and gives developers new possibilities for using Office in a custom solution.

First install Microsoft Office tools you are going to use, then download and install Edraw Office Viewer Component. Now you can use this tool to manager all of your office tools, of course, you can download other Microsoft Office tools later, It can check the office tools you have installed every time you run it. Read the rest of this entry »

The following article about Frequently Used Drawing Tricks in Microsoft PowerPoint is from Recipester.

Drawing in Microsoft PowerPoint is not so troublesome since there are not so many drawing tools, filters or matte skills like Adobe PhotoShop. It's possible that everyone could take control of it. Here I’ll introduce several frequently used drawing skills.

1.Draw Square Rectangle or Polygon

Press Shift key during Shape Drawing to generate square shapes is a common sense and very simple actually. However, it may be the most used trick to draw shapes, scale pictures even grouped objects. Read the rest of this entry »

I would say, with no fear of being wrong, that most people who use or have used a Windows-based computer, either at home or work, have used or currently uses this popular office suite in any of its versions. For those who never heard of it, (if any) I can tell you that I am talking about an extremely popular commercial product that enables users to create, edit, open and save text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases and more. As I did with OpenOffice.org, in this article I am going to tell you how this extremely useful set of tools which is bundled under the name of Microsoft Office 2007 behaves when installed in the Windows 7 environment.

Installation and First Run
I always say that by seeing how the setup process goes you can have an approximated idea of how the program will run once it is fully installed. In this particular case I have to say that the whole process went pretty well, I can only complaint about it taking too long, so, if I paid no regard to this issue (let's assume that mine is not a super fast machine and that copying and configuring over 500MB into my HDD is not a quick task), it went smooth, starting by the extraction of files like this: Read the rest of this entry »