Favorite PowerPoint ADD-IN?
Feb 25, 2011
To go along with this great post ( http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/736.aspx ), what is your favorite PowerPoint ADD-IN that you have added to help you create e-learning with Presenter? Or what has made you more productive with PowerPoint?
(And Presenter itself as an add-in does NOT count here. )
One of my favorites is the one for mtion paths that Tom clued us on to. http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/powerpoint-animations-made-easy-with-this-free-tool/
Any one have any others? Let's share our tricks by use of add-ins.
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Well, much more than a PowerPoint ADD-IN (although you find it in the AddIn-Tab) is "Print2Flash". Awful Website but a great tool
Forgot to mention this one add-in that I first used this week. Actually, I had to pay for it to meet an initial deadline. :(
In a course that I'm working on, I had a 4-section SmartArt pie figure that I animated on the slide to show what topic the course was now going to focus on.
The internal client liked the concept but wanted a 4-piece jig-saw puzzle instead. (Why do folks like these so much? The interlocking pieces showing interrelationships?)
Okay, knowing Tom covered this nicely in an old blog post, I started there. But I wanted the crossword pieces to form a rectangle when all together.
I couldn't find any clip art to piece together, or any other resource, and I didn't have time to do it myself, so I finally found this jigsaw puzzle maker add-in for PowerPoint. I purchase it and it worked great. Really simple to use.
(Now here's where someone pipes up and shows something that is free that does the same thing. )
It easily creates 4, 6, 9, or 16 piece puzzles of on a new, single slide. I did that for a 4-piece puzzle, resized the pieces; added images as fills and a little shadow, text, and bevel; then added a motion path to one of the pieces; and then animated in a final shape with text.
Here's how it came out.
Slide beginning:
Slide end:
@Gerry - Do the Add-ins seem to function well when integrated in Articulate also?
So far (with fingers crossed), just fine.
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