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Create and Update PowerPoint Reports
The best way to achieve effectiveness in business reporting is the direct approach. If you want to pass your points across to stakeholders and get them to listen, appreciate and enforce, you must be clear, simple and direct. When presenting a report, you must arrange...
Justin Arnold Presentation at Presentation Ideas 2019
PresentationPoint is excited to announce that Justin Arnold will be presenting at the Presentation Ideas 2019 online conference.Here is more information abou this presentation.7 Ways To Create Highly Versatile Non Linear PresentationsSo you learned PowerPoint so well...
Weather Software Used by a Professional Meteorologist
In this article, a professional meteorologist, James Longwith, shares with us how he uses our weather software, Dynamic Elements, to create real-time weather reports.Here are James' answers to our questions about how he is using our weather software. Tell us a bit...
PowerPoint Integrations using PresentationPoint
We have just put together an extensive page highlighting 25 different PowerPoint integrations that you can make using our software. This includes integrations relating to: Digital Signage Facebook Google Calendar Google Sheets JSON Microsoft Access Microsoft Excel...
Vickie Gould joins Presentation Ideas 2019 Conference
PresentationPoint is pleased to welcome Vickie Gould as a new presenter at our November Presentation Ideas 2019 online conference. Here is some information about Vickie and her presentation.Be Memorable and Close More Sales with StoryWhat’s the use of great teaching...
Screens that Motivates
Looking for improved connectivity and internal communication? Digital Signage Screen is one screen that motivates through interconnectedness and engagement. It is providing your team with the smartest solutions specifically for communication. Not only for big...
FAQ: Show the Last Value of an Excel Column
I want to show the last entry of a column in Excel in real-time. I have an excel file, in which a data (numbers) is added to a specific column. I would like to present the current number updated in the last row of the column in a text box every 1 sec. How can I do...
Oil Sands Conference & Trade Show, Canada Sept 2019
We are pleased to announce that PresentationPoint will be at the Oil Sands Conference & Trade Show in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada from Sept 10-11, 2019.Our goal is to connect with people in the oil and gas industry to discuss ways that our software can be used...
Conference Update: Chantal Bossé Returns for 2019
PresentationPoint is pleased to announce that Chantal Bossé is returning to speak at our Presentation Ideas 2019 online conference. Chantal's presentation last year (PowerPoint's Zoom Feature: Your Key to Audience Engagement) was well received and this year's topic...
Visit us at the Presentation Summit in San Antonio, TX, USA, Oct 2019
PresentationPoint is an official gold partner of the Presentation Summit being held in San Antonio, TX, USA from October 6 till 9, 2019. Come and visit us here for more information and news on our products. Have you heard about the Presentation Summit? Four days,...
FAQ: Can DataPoint Work with Any Template?
Can we use our own PowerPoint templates to use them with DataPoint for linking? Can we use PowerPoint templates as supplied by others as well? Sure, DataPoint and all other PresentationPoint products use native and normal PowerPoint presentations. So this gives you...
How to Add Voice Queue Numbers to Your Queue Management System
A Queue Management System (QMS) is great to streamline the waiting area of an organization. Think about bakeries, help desks, sales counters etc. You can display information, advertising, and promotions on television screens with videos and presentations. Use our...
FAQ: Visual Numbers in PowerPoint
I use DataPoint to display real-time information from a database during an event. When there is a value 30 in the database, then I want to display 30 icons at different locations on the screen. Sort of a visual representation of a number while updating in real-time....
Tranquil PC for Digital Signage Screens
Computers for digital signage. We got our hands on a nice compact computer that we could evaluate for digital signage displays. In this article: the Tranquil PC for digital signage screens. The term Tranquil refers to the name of the company focuses on silence and...
FAQ: What DPI Should I Be Scanning Pictures At?
As yours is the first website that gets near to the information I'm looking for, I'm sorry, but you're it for my question.Problem is that (a)I'm old and (b) I don't have PowerPoint but this can be amended. I'm working with Google Slides at the moment as that was the...
Wayfinding Signage: Are Visuals Better Than Texts?
Designers of traffic signs and wayfinding signage in public buildings need to put in a lot of thought into designing wayfinding signage that is easy to process by people who frequent the location. Texts used to be widely used in the past when designing public...
Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Contest Countdown Board
When you are in New York and you want to run away from the city, from the noise and traffic, you go to Coney Island in Brooklyn. Take the orange D or F, or yellow N or Q train; all 4 lines will take you directly to Coney Island, New York's most famous amusement park...
FAQ: Show Real-Time PDF Documents on your Slides
How to show up-to-date pdf documents in PowerPoint Do you have a solution to dynamically show pdf documents? People often ask us how to display up-to-date PDF documents on PowerPoint slides. We do have our DataPoint add-on to display information in real-time from...
Tips for Building Reports in PowerPoint
Why Your Neglect of This Reporting Tool May Be The Biggest Business Growth Mistake… You're Making. PowerPoint? Yes! You may have been enchanted by the beauty of PowerPoint as a presentation tool... But, do you know that you can use PowerPoint to create awesome...
FAQ: How Do I Add A Ticker Symbol Using DataPoint?
How do I add a ticker symbol using DataPoint? Something like this where it would auto update and we could do several other companies… We were recommending the Yahoo API for that earlier, but Yahoo has been shutting down some data services. We have found another great...
4K Television Screen Designs In PowerPoint
Have you heard about the much needed 4K PowerPoint Presentations? In the trending world of technology and digitalization, high definition and resolution is a must. Pictures and videos are more tempting and alluring when their visuals are extravagant. The notion and...
From Porsche to NASA: A Day in Our Sales Department
We call this video "from Porsche to NASA: a day in our sales department". This video isn't about fast machines although Porsche has very fast machines and NASA's are even faster, rather this was a day that our sales department told us about where they were contacted...
Weather in PowerPoint
The question most often asked: What will the weather be today? Weather is omnipresent in our society. You see weather information in your newspaper, weather apps on your phone, you can track rain and thunderstorms online and more. No wonder that weather information is...
Display Website in PowerPoint with Updates
We are the champion in displaying real-time information on your PowerPoint slides. Typically information is stored in files and databases, and these numbers, names, percentages, KPIs, target dates etc are all displayed as characters and numbers. But in some cases, it...
Changing the Width of a Shape Dynamically
Rotating a shape on a slide was already explained in an article. Handy when you want to rotate the needle of a gauge on your information dashboard. Easier than rotating is changing the width of a given shape on your slide. Think about a bar that is linked to a...
Datafeed Directory Now Available
Because we connect so many kinds of data to presentations and digital signage, many of our clients ask us where to find datafeeds. So we created our datafeed directory to give you some data sources to start with.Click on the button below to be taken to our datafeed...
FAQ: How to Play a PowerPoint Slideshow on TV
How can I Play a PowerPoint Slideshow on TV? Sometimes you need to display a PowerPoint slideshow on a TV to show your presentation on the meeting, a conference, or use the slideshow for an information screen or advertising display. Most of our customers use this for...
World Time Clock using PowerPoint
One of our favorite things at PresentationPoint is when our customers send us their "look what we made" pictures and stories. This story is about a world time clock designed in PowerPoint by audiovisual and IT firm, Qubix, using our Dynamic Elements software. Here is...
FAQ: Computer Connectors and Cables
Since the dawn of computers, connectors have always played an all-important role in transmitting data from data sources to a display monitor, and they continue to remain important today. Connectors are of many types, and they can be incorporated into different...
Affiliates: Finding Digital Signage Solution Opportunities
Digital Signage Uses Digital signage has tons of different uses. Almost everywhere you look now you're seeing new monitors popping up that have digital signage on them. Here are a few common uses Advertising: Advertising is a common digital signage opportunity. You...
Randomize Data Rows on Your Slide
DataPoint is mostly used to display the latest information dynamically on your PowerPoint slide. But sometimes people want to display random stuff. Like the joke of the day, quote of the day, etc.For all of the 25 data providers that you have in DataPoint, you can set...
FAQ: How do I Remove DataPoint From my PowerPoint Application?
I want to remove DataPoint from my PowerPoint application How do I Remove DataPoint From my PowerPoint Application? Sometimes you need to uninstall our software like the DataPoint add-on. This happens when a trial expired or when you want to move the add-on to another...
New York Office
Our recent business trip to New York was so successful, we decided to add New York to our existing presences to now provide coverage in the US, Canada, and Europe.Here is our New York mailing address.PresentationPoint1177 Avenue of the Americas, 7th floorNew York, NY...
Mail Merge PowerPoint Presentations – 4 Types
In this article, we are going to discuss how to create mail merge PowerPoints and what to use them for. PowerPoint is a perfect tool for mail-merging reports. What am I saying? PowerPoint is the best and cheapest way to do your mail-merged individual reports, but only...
FAQ: Old Data On Slide While Transitioning
With DataPoint you can link text boxes to data sources like files and databases. When the dynamic text box is used on a slide with a transition, then you will see old data during the transition since PowerPoint has made a bitmap or cache of the slide and it uses that...
10 Creative Ways to Use Data in Presentations
Here is a recording of Garland's presentation "10 Creative Ways to Use Data In Presentations" from our 2018 Presentation Ideas Conference. If you have comments or questions about the presentation, let us know. PresentationsData is increasingly important in business...
FAQ: On How Many Computers Can I Install the DataPoint Enterprise Edition?
How many users can the DataPoint Enterprise edition accommodate? We would like to find out more information about your Enterprise edition for DataPoint. How many users can the Enterprise edition accommodate? (users that are able to create data-driven presentations)...
Call for Speakers for 2019 Presentation Ideas Online Conference
Our 2018 Presentation Ideas Online Conference was a great success, so we are on for Presentation Ideas 2019!At this time, we are putting out the call for speakers to present at our online conference from Nov 20-21, 2019. If you are a speaker who would like to present...
PresentationPoint Comes to Western Canada!
We are pleased to announce that PresentationPoint will be exhibiting our software at the Western Manufacturing Technology Show at the Edmonton Expo Centre (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) from June 4-6, 2019. The show will be located in the Edmonton Expo Centre. During the...
Museum Digital Signage: The Wild Center
In this video we're going to do a case study for museum digital signage thanks to our client, The Wild Center who agreed to provide us with information about how they're using our tools and products to set up their museum digital signage. Here are the details in their...
How To Set Up Data-Driven Digital Signage
How to set up a data-driven digital signage solution? That is what we do. Providing software for data-driven presentations and digital signage. Basically, this is a combination of 2 our major products: DataPoint and iPoint. The setup is absolutely not complex, but...
Affiliate Training April 30
As part of our commitment to PresentationPoint affiliates, we offer regular affiliate training and brainstorming sessions. Our next session is scheduled for April 30, 2019 at 6 pm / 18:00 Western European Time 4 pm / 16:00 UTC 10 am Mountain Time If you are already an...
Personalized Videos: Employee Review Example
In this video and article, we will show you how to create personalized videos using PowerPoint. For this example, we have decided to use a situation where you might want to create personalized videos for each of your employees during your employee review process. Here...
Infoscreen Software
Technological advancement has led to the digitization of information. Digitized information allows you to know so much within a limited time frame. This can happen when the information is presented on an infoscreen with as few words as possible and with currently...
How to Start Affiliate Marketing With PresentationPoint?
Love our software? Want to share it with others and build another income stream? We'll show you how to get started with affiliate marketing with PresentationPoint. Here are just a few of the types of businesses and individuals we work with. If you work in any of these...
NEW: Full HD Weather Screen, an Expansion Pack for PowerPoint
We are bringing out a special expansion pack for our real-time weather display capabilities in DataPoint and Dynamic Weather. This expansion pack works great with our latest Weather provider service and is able to display today's weather and next days forecast as...
How to Create an Equipment Monitoring System Dashboard
Recently one of our customers who wishes to remain anonymous sent us a screenshot of how they set up an equipment monitoring system dashboard system using our software. There is a lot to unpack on this one single screen that shows a lot more than you think. Let's...
FAQ: PowerPoint Presentations on Multiple Screens
I am looking into something to play a PowerPoint presentation on multiple screens from one computer. I am looking into something to play a PowerPoint presentation on multiple screens from one computer. We are currently using 3 static images on 3 screens and we want to...
Airline Schedules & Customer Communication using Digital Signage – Air Tindi
Here is how Air Tindi, an airline based in Canada's far North uses digital signage for airline schedules and communicating with customers. Question: Tell us a bit about your company or organization or what you do. Answer:30 years of service and a Northern Based...
Video Advertising with PowerPoint
When you are in the train stations, airports, or shopping malls, you will see video advertising for clothing, electronic devices, bags, perfumes etc. everywhere. They are using very attractive and colorful television screens to broadcast their ads. These screens...
Recovering the Missing Excel Share Workbook Command
Many of you will have noticed that the Excel "share workbook" command is now missing in later versions. In this video and article, we will show you how to recover the Excel share workbook command. Many of our customers use our great DataPoint add-on for PowerPoint to...
Dynamic Digital Signage at Arts Center Hasselt
Another serious Belgian arts center, cultuurcentrum Hasselt, has chosen PresentationPoint software for the real-time data-driven information screens at their venue. They were using Xibo as free digital signage platform, displaying an HTML page reading out data from an...
Best Practices on how to Transition to Online Presenting – Sharyn Fitzpatrick
Here is Sharyn Fitzpatrick's fantastic presentation from our 2018 Presentation Ideas Conference. In a piece of impeccable timing, Sharyn put up a "Don't Panic" slide talking about what to do about technical difficulties, just as our software crashed. So we were able...
Sharing DataPoint Visuals in Real Time with your Audience
Guest blog article by CrowdbeamerCrowdbeamer is the first presentation system that streams any screen content wirelessly to all smartphones, tablets, and laptops in a live audience. That comes in very handy during any presentation, especially if you’re using DataPoint...
Service Status Report: Yahoo Weather API is Down
Affected products: DataPoint and Dynamic Weather We regret to inform you that Yahoo has terminated the Weather API on January 3, 2019. They are asking us to switch to their new API and new authentication system. We are currently waiting for approval from Yahoo. Once...
9 Techniques to Make Your Presentations Modern – Ellen Finkelstein
Here is a recording of Ellen Finkelstein's wonderful presentation from our Presentation Ideas Conference 2018. 9 Techniques to Make Your Presentations Modern — So You Don’t Look So Old! When you have millennials in your audience, you don’t want your presentations to...
What’s New in PowerPoint 2019?
A lot. Microsoft’s PowerPoint is no doubt one of the most versatile and most used Office applications. From helping people organize charts, statistics, data and information, to helping presenters pass information to an audience in the simplest and most visually...
TN Panel vs IPS: a Comparison
A monitor is a device used for displaying output or information. Example of places where monitors are used is in television, gaming. The most commonly used monitor display is the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) monitor. When purchasing or selecting an LCD monitor, it is...
Really Really Big PowerPoint (Screen Size – not file size) with Troy Chollar
Here is a recording of Troy Chollar's fantastic presentation from our Presentation Ideas Conference 2018. 40′ tall and 200′ wide, no problem for PowerPoint – if you know how! PowerPoint is behind a lot of multi-screen, large screen multimedia productions – it’s just...
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