Try pptPlex from Microsoft Office Labs
pptPlex
Inside Office Onine, Nancy Buchanan, from Office at Work and Microsoft Office Labs bring you a new Microsoft Office Powerpoint plugin that will add pizzaz and jazz to your presentations.
As Nancy describes, pptPlex adds functionality to PowerPoint 2007 allowing you to deliver slides from a virtual canvas instead of one-after-the-other. Imagine that you were going over a presentation with a colleague and had all of your slides printed out and spread on a large table. With all of the slides visible at once you could easily pick up a slide so you could discuss its points, then put it down and grab another, or even hold 2 slides side-by-side so you could easily compare them. pptPlex gives PowerPoint this flexibility; you can move to and from slides easily with transitions so smooth that you can jump all over your presentation without ever getting lost. Learn more about pptPlex in this article, including where to get it and how I created a presentation about the planets in the solar system using it.
According to Office Online and Nancy, Bill Gates used pptPlex technology at the CEO Summit in May of 2008 on a huge touch screen computer. I’m not a CEO so wasn’t there in person, but have viewed the keynote online and can honestly say that with the exception of the huge touch screen, I was able to produce a very similar presentation with the same bells and whistles. You can too if you download the free pptPlex add-on. After you install pptPlex it adds a new tab to the Office ribbon.
If you use this, let us know how it worked for you. Even better, a linkk to the presentation would be great!
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