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From: simon@oda.icl.stc.co.uk (Simon Feather)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: slide creation facilities in WIN3
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Date: 20 Feb 91 15:06:30 GMT
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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.

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Ciao,

Simon Feather

ICL Bracknell

email	simon@oda.icl.stc.co.uk
phone	+44 344 424842 x3003