Library Application

[Jeff Vandehey]

Hi gang, does anyone know of a 'library' application for PP Mac? What I am
looking for is an application that takes slides from multiple presentations,
and shows thumbnails or something so I can assemble a new presentation with
a montage of slides from previous presentations.

I hope what I wrote made sense. Anyway, I remember an application for PC
that could do this. If there is anything for a Mac, please let me know.
Also, if anyone knows the name of the PC version, let me know for future
reference.

Thanks!
-Jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I hope what I wrote made sense. Anyway, I remember an application for PC

that could do this. If there is anything for a Mac, please let me know.
Also, if anyone knows the name of the PC version, let me know for future
reference.

Presentation Librarian is one (Mac version? I don't know) There are others,
I'm sure.

 

[Jeff Vandehey]

Thanks Steve, that application has the functionality of what I am looking
for. Does anyone know an app for the Mac that will do this? Thanks!

-Jeff

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Jeff,

I may be sounding pretty dumb here, but do you know that you can use slide
sorter view and select single slides or groups of slides and copy them from
one presentation to another?

You can also turn on the Office Clipboard (known as the Scrapbook in
PowerPoint 2004). That will hold up to 24 slides at a time so you can mix
and match them.

-Jim

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi again,

I probably should add that you can search for text within a presentation
inside PowerPoint using Apple+F.

From Finder you can search through files in a directory that contain
specified text using Apple+F in OSX

In PowerPoint 2001 there is a FindFile feature that lets you search within
files for text.

-Jim

 

[Jeff Vandehey]

Thanks for the info Jim. I am aware of those functions, but the type of
application I'm looking for would take an entire folder of PP presentations,
and show all enclosing slides in a thumbnail view. This way I wouldn't have
to open each file to browse for the file I want.

Thanks for the reply.

-Jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the info Jim. I am aware of those functions, but the type of

application I'm looking for would take an entire folder of PP presentations,
and show all enclosing slides in a thumbnail view. This way I wouldn't have
to open each file to browse for the file I want.

Try a google on

asset powerpoint mac

That brings up quite a few leads that appear worth pursuing

The general type of product you're after is called "Digital Asset Management"
or some variation of that.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Jeff,

I've been considering adding a feature something like that to the little
add-in that I sell. I've got the importing a folder's worth of pictures
down.

You can do something like that now within PowerPoint. Let's say you use my
add-in to put 200 pictures into a presentation. You could then save the
presentation as a PowerPoint package. That outputs the presentation and
copies of the pictures into a single folder. The presentation has links to
the pictures. So you could use slide sorter view to copy the picture links
to other presentations that rely on the same images. You'd have to think
about how all this linking would work because you might wind up with a lot
of red Xs if you don't do it right.

I'd have to think about how to handle a large number of pictures, but I
think this is do-able via VBA.

-Jim

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Geetesh Bajaj]

You could use Avitage! - it's a library application and since it is browser
based, it doesn't matter if you are running PowerPoint on a Mac or Windows.

http://www.avitage.com

I interviewed Jim Burns of Avitage!:

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/personality/jimburns.html
--
Geetesh Bajaj, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
http://www.powerpointed.com

PowerPoint Ezine Issue 42
http://www.indezine.com/ppezine/