simon@oda.icl.stc.co.uk (Simon Feather) (02/12/91)
I am posting this for a colleague who does not have net access. My colleague is interested in obtaining a package to run under Windows 3 and that will enable him to produce slides for overhead projection with the minimum of fuss. The full-blooded drawing facilities of things like Corel Draw are overkill for this: he just wants to be able to create simple OHP slides quickly and easily (bullet points, headings. Frames and simple block diagramming would be a bonus..) Can anyone suggest something that might be suitable, commercial product or otherwise? Thanks for your help (email to address below please - I can post a summary of responses later) -- Ciao, Simon Feather ICL Bracknell email simon@oda.icl.stc.co.uk phone +44 344 424842 x3003
simon@oda.icl.stc.co.uk (Simon Feather) (02/20/91)
Thanks to everybody who replied to my earlier message regarding a request for an overhead projection slide creation package to run in windows 3. Out of all the replies, about 98% said "Buy Microsoft PowerPoint". We found some literature on it and it is precisely what we want. Here it is available for 330 pounds sterling - we have now ordered a copy! For those of you who want to know what it does, here are a few of the replies I got: From Tom Beach (dtb@adpplz.uuc): > Possibly the best of the lot is Microsoft's Powerpoint. > It allows you to create a "style", or choose, or modify one of the > multiple sample styles supplied with the program. > Then all of your slides have the same bullets, fonts, etc. > If your doing several large presentations this is THE way to go. > > If your doing only a few small presentations try any of the god > word processing programs MS-Word, WordPerfect, ... > From Fritz Whittington (fritz@m2.ti.com): > I use the Microsoft software called Powerpoint Presentation > Manager. It was written specifically for Windows 3.0 and of course > works pretty well with all the other MS stuff like WfW, Write, and > Excel. (Import data, cut & paste, dynamic links, etc.). But it also > works just fine for making plain vanilla text overheads. I especially > like the way you can stretch or shrink a chunk of text to fit the > desired space. It also maintains a complete presentation in ONE file > no matter how many individual slides, though of course you can drag copies > of individual slides from one presentation to another, and re-arrange the > order of slides within a presentation. Try to get a demo. It cost > about US dollars 150 over here; your mileage may vary. From Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA] > Microsoft PowerPoint lets you design slides and overheads. It has a > lot of advantages over draw programs; for example, you can tell it to > flash your slides to you, one every few seconds, so you can sit back > and observe the "slide show." People in my company use PowerPoint for > slides, and they swear by it. Thanks again to everybody who helped out. -- Ciao, Simon Feather ICL Bracknell email simon@oda.icl.stc.co.uk phone +44 344 424842 x3003