The Camtasia Studio Suite provides an elegant way to rapidly build a variety of products based on screen recordings (and even integrated video sequences.) This makes it an ideal product for creating top notch training CDs for complex software products and tutorials for web applications.
What is Camtasia Studio?
Camtasia Studio by TechSmith is a suite of tools designed to create a professional level "video." Through its powerful screen capture technology and its ability to work with any type of avi file, it allows you to seamlessly integrate screen captures (with a variety of special effects) with video clips (if desired) to make crystal clear, stunning productions. Camtasia Studio is comprised of the following tools; Camtasia Recorder, Camtasia Producer, Camtasia Effects, Camtasia MenuMaker and Camtasia Player.
Each part contributes in its own unique way to a professional level production. And the learning curve is quite light to get you started. There are a variety of advanced features that can be learned as you use the tool more but the basics, which you can master in less than an hour, will produce an excellent tutorial, product CD, etc.
Each of the tools in the Camtasia Studio Suite performs a specific set of functions.
Camtasia Recorder - Allows you to capture all or just a portion of the computer screen, record mouse clicks and keystrokes, record an audio narrative and much more.
Camtasia Producer - Allows you to tie together any number of avi clips on a storyboard, build transitions between clips, publish the finished product in a variety of industry standard formats (Macromedia Flash, AVI, Microsoft Windows Media, RealNetworks RealMedia, Quicktime and their own TechSmith Screen Capture Codec), record and edit audio, add a second audio track (great for music) and much more.
Camtasia Effects - Allows the addition of a variety of special effects to your video clips both during their recording with Camtasia Recorder and afterwards. Allows the addition of freehand drawings, shapes, etc. in specific positions and timelines of your avi clip.
Camtasia MenuMaker - Allows you to create a CD-ROM menu of your files sort of like a DVD menu that lets you choose the particular place you want to go. This is a great feature for a training CD as each lesson can be a menu item and allows the viewer to take breaks and get back to the next lesson quickly and easily.
Camtasia Player - A tool that can be included with the finished product to allow others to view it. This is not needed as you can store the clips in a variety of formats but it integrates smoothly with the other tools and makes for a cleaner presentation, especially when used with the Camtasia MenuMaker.
Why it is idea for training CDs for software
It seems that every day software is growing more and more complex and the software creators continue to to their typical poor job at teaching you how to use their product. This has spawned a wide variety of third party training products for complex software packages - with prices running up to several hundred dollars per training module.
Camtasia Studio allows you to create a training CD that can take a person from the very basics of working with one of these software packages to using advanced features. And it can do it in a show all manner. In other words, you actually create the CD as you do a project. This allows you to show the viewer the exact steps that you are taking to perform a specific task or series of tasks with that software package.
By creating training CDs to teach specific ways to used complex software products, you are satisfying a great want provided your tutorials target the right information. Once you step outside the realm of basic tools - like Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. (i.e. Video Professor type training materials), there are a huge number of products the people need to know to perform their jobs well. These software products can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. And anything that can cut down on the learning curve or teach a new way to use the product (which can mean a new way to make money with the product) becomes very valuable.
Just to offer one example. Suppose you are a licensed professional engineer (PE) in the construction industry. Chances are very good that much of your time is invested in using building design software to calculate all sorts of variables in the construction, stresses of joints, material thicknesses, etc. and since you are a PE, you are personally liable for any errors you make. To you, knowing exactly how to use these computer programs is critical to you doing your job. So when someone offers a training program to teach you how to use your suite of tools more effectively and accurately, you tend to become very interested.
Product Ideas
What software products would be ripe for tutorials? The best guideline is to find software products that require a substantial investment (say $400 and above) and are probably used by self employed individuals and small companies. This profile works much better than "corporate" level software because the people using this software have much more motivation to use it as effectively as possible than corporate workers who are often paid regardless of productivity.
Here is the best way to research these products AND figure out what type of training people are seeking on this product (i.e. where is the unfulfilled want that you can fill.)
Choose an industry and learn what tools are used in that industry. For instance, the small video producer may use Sonic Foundry's Video Vegas, Sound Forge and Acid Music products to create videos (which could be anything from wedding videos to corporate seminar videos to How To videos.)
Find out where people who own these products congregate on the web. There will generally be a variety of discussion forums available where people discuss these tools and how to use them.
Find the common themes in these discussion groups; the questions that get asked over and over again. For instance, with wedding video products, it may be asking how to create certain special effects. Remember that for everyone who actually asks a question, there are probably a hundred or more who do have the same question.
Build a training product that teaches how to solve the problem in number 3 above.
By following this formula, you are sure to make a training product that will sell well. Just be sure that it is produced with quality. In other words, be sure that you know the product well enough to make a meaningful training video for it. Or find someone who uses the product and partner with that person to make the training video.
Take action now!
Combine Camtasia Studio with Public Domain materials to build your own unique set of training materials.
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Tutorial free : How To Edit A Video In Minutes Using Ulead VideoStudio 11 : e
1. Connect your DV camera into the PC. It should make a noise and tell you it’s recognizes your camera.
2. Open up ulead video studio and click on the video editor.
3. In the video editor click on the capture tab. The program should now recognize that a camera is connected. Click on the capture video and away u go.
(TIP: if that doesn’t happen don’t worry. Close the program and click on the program widows movie maker. Inside movie maker click on capture video and that should do the trick)
So back to video studio
4. Now once you have up your video loaded on the PC the editing can start. Click the edit tab.
5. Once there load your video by clicking on the load video button which look like an open folder logo next to the word video.
6. Find where your video is and open it.
7. Next drag and drop your video in to the story board at the bottom of the screen, it’s written “drag and drop video clip here”
8. Now click on the little button that says multi trim video. This will enable you to edit your video (i.e. cut out the bits you want).
9. Now in this screen you can use the F3 and F4 key to put markers as to the sections you want.
10. Press the play button, and then click F3 when you want to start (i.e. the part of the video you want to keep).
11. When you get to a part you want to stop press F4
(TIP: Use the jog wheel next to the video time – this will help you move the video much slower)
12. So now you’ve collected a group of little video from your big one.
13. Click ok and they will all be put together as one big video.
14. You can now watch your video if you click on play with is located underneath where you can see your video.
15. So you’ve got a video but only people can only watch it on your PC. So hit the share button.
16. I’ve found that if you first create a video file then use your regular burn software to burn the disc. BUT you can simple choose create disc and follow this to make your DVD disc.
Joe Rayand is an internet entrepreneur specialising in helping ordinary people with their computer related problems.
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2. Open up ulead video studio and click on the video editor.
3. In the video editor click on the capture tab. The program should now recognize that a camera is connected. Click on the capture video and away u go.
(TIP: if that doesn’t happen don’t worry. Close the program and click on the program widows movie maker. Inside movie maker click on capture video and that should do the trick)
So back to video studio
4. Now once you have up your video loaded on the PC the editing can start. Click the edit tab.
5. Once there load your video by clicking on the load video button which look like an open folder logo next to the word video.
6. Find where your video is and open it.
7. Next drag and drop your video in to the story board at the bottom of the screen, it’s written “drag and drop video clip here”
8. Now click on the little button that says multi trim video. This will enable you to edit your video (i.e. cut out the bits you want).
9. Now in this screen you can use the F3 and F4 key to put markers as to the sections you want.
10. Press the play button, and then click F3 when you want to start (i.e. the part of the video you want to keep).
11. When you get to a part you want to stop press F4
(TIP: Use the jog wheel next to the video time – this will help you move the video much slower)
12. So now you’ve collected a group of little video from your big one.
13. Click ok and they will all be put together as one big video.
14. You can now watch your video if you click on play with is located underneath where you can see your video.
15. So you’ve got a video but only people can only watch it on your PC. So hit the share button.
16. I’ve found that if you first create a video file then use your regular burn software to burn the disc. BUT you can simple choose create disc and follow this to make your DVD disc.
Joe Rayand is an internet entrepreneur specialising in helping ordinary people with their computer related problems.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Joe_Rayland
Tutorial free : Basic Photoshop CS2 Tools : e
Ok well let’s start with the basic tools, first if you haven’t got a tools box then go Window then tick tools. In the box that will appear on the left of your screen will be all the tools you will need to make anything you won’t. At the top of the box is a feather, clicking this takes you to the Photoshop website incase you have any major problems, Under that we have 2 icons first icon is a rectangle box (m), with this box you can do things like highlight certain parts of what your making and move them about. Second is the Arrow icon (v), this is used for moving things that you have pasted onto the screen, and also moving text once you have added text. Then under these two icons we have the Lasso tool (l), the lasso tool is used for feathering an image pasted onto the screen or careful drawing round an image.
Next icon is the Magic Wand Tool (w). This is used for highlighting round an image E.g. a warrior in the middle of your banner click on the Magic Wand tool and then click next to the picture, this will highlight all parts of what you pasted that has no part of the image then press delete this leave you with just the picture (Better used with a render). Next tool is the Crop Tool (c). This too allows you to crop thing such as an image used in the same way as a screen shot you’ve taken and posted in Microsoft Word. Next is the slice tool (k) the slice tool allows you to take what your doing part by part. Next is the spot healing tool (j), this tool allows you to mend a part of a broken picture. E.g. you accidentally removed part of a picture or color background select this tool and click on the part that is wrong and it will fix it. Brush tool (b) the brush tool is used for making good backgrounds and also on new layers they have different types so that you get a different effect with every brush you use.
Clone Stamp Tool (s), this is used for taking a certain part of what’s on the screen (what ever you click with this tool) and will clone what you click. History Brush Tool (y), this tool is used in the same way as undoing something on Microsoft E.g. you drew a bane out of place go over that line with this tool and it’ll undo it bit by bit ( does the opposite to the brush tool).Eraser tool (e), Used for rubbing out anything on the background. Gradient Tool (g) this allows you to click and drag a line on the banner. Select a color gradient at the top and click and dragon on the banner as this goes along the color will match the gradient type that you choose at the top. Blur Tool(r) this blurs what ever you blur with this tool. Right click the tool and you can also get the smudge and sharpen tool. Dodge Tool (o) This tool is used to change the background effect and any other layer, Right clicking this gives you a dodge, sponger and burn option. Path Selection Tool (a) Allows you select another path to what you’re looking for. Text Tool, This allows you to add text to your project, you can change the text style by clicking Style at the top once Text has been tool has been selected.
Pen Tool (p), allows you to make lines that change color and shapes on the project. Rectangle Tool (u), This is like the other rectangle tool but when click and dragging rectangle size it fills with the color selected at the top. Notes Tool (n), Allows you to attach notes to your project. Eyedropper tool (I) This tool allows you to select a certain color by clicking on the color that you won’t on the Project. Hand Tool (h), when zoomed in this tool allows you to move around the project E.g. if you need to move to one side and you’re in the middle using this tool lets you move the project over. Zoom Tool (z) this zooms in on anything your making, to zoom back out keep clicking the zoom tool. Color boxes, Foreground and Background the top color is Foreground this is anything you do say getting a brush what ever color is in this section will be brushed on, Background when starting a new project what ever is in this section will be the background color. Bottom picture in the tool bar will switch what you’re doing to Image Ready instead of Photoshop, and vise verse.
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Next icon is the Magic Wand Tool (w). This is used for highlighting round an image E.g. a warrior in the middle of your banner click on the Magic Wand tool and then click next to the picture, this will highlight all parts of what you pasted that has no part of the image then press delete this leave you with just the picture (Better used with a render). Next tool is the Crop Tool (c). This too allows you to crop thing such as an image used in the same way as a screen shot you’ve taken and posted in Microsoft Word. Next is the slice tool (k) the slice tool allows you to take what your doing part by part. Next is the spot healing tool (j), this tool allows you to mend a part of a broken picture. E.g. you accidentally removed part of a picture or color background select this tool and click on the part that is wrong and it will fix it. Brush tool (b) the brush tool is used for making good backgrounds and also on new layers they have different types so that you get a different effect with every brush you use.
Clone Stamp Tool (s), this is used for taking a certain part of what’s on the screen (what ever you click with this tool) and will clone what you click. History Brush Tool (y), this tool is used in the same way as undoing something on Microsoft E.g. you drew a bane out of place go over that line with this tool and it’ll undo it bit by bit ( does the opposite to the brush tool).Eraser tool (e), Used for rubbing out anything on the background. Gradient Tool (g) this allows you to click and drag a line on the banner. Select a color gradient at the top and click and dragon on the banner as this goes along the color will match the gradient type that you choose at the top. Blur Tool(r) this blurs what ever you blur with this tool. Right click the tool and you can also get the smudge and sharpen tool. Dodge Tool (o) This tool is used to change the background effect and any other layer, Right clicking this gives you a dodge, sponger and burn option. Path Selection Tool (a) Allows you select another path to what you’re looking for. Text Tool, This allows you to add text to your project, you can change the text style by clicking Style at the top once Text has been tool has been selected.
Pen Tool (p), allows you to make lines that change color and shapes on the project. Rectangle Tool (u), This is like the other rectangle tool but when click and dragging rectangle size it fills with the color selected at the top. Notes Tool (n), Allows you to attach notes to your project. Eyedropper tool (I) This tool allows you to select a certain color by clicking on the color that you won’t on the Project. Hand Tool (h), when zoomed in this tool allows you to move around the project E.g. if you need to move to one side and you’re in the middle using this tool lets you move the project over. Zoom Tool (z) this zooms in on anything your making, to zoom back out keep clicking the zoom tool. Color boxes, Foreground and Background the top color is Foreground this is anything you do say getting a brush what ever color is in this section will be brushed on, Background when starting a new project what ever is in this section will be the background color. Bottom picture in the tool bar will switch what you’re doing to Image Ready instead of Photoshop, and vise verse.
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Tutorial Free : Learn How to Edit Digital Photos In A Jiffy - picasa : e
I usually keep my digital camera with me wherever I go. I love to click. When I' m holidaying with family, partying with friends or when I' m out on special occasions, I look for a chance, click, save, and share memories with my friends. After checking out the pics, I lookout for some of the best pics, edit them and share it on my blog or keep them with me. Everyone has a unique purpose for editing pictures. Whatever it is, I will show you how to edit digital photos better and for free.
First of all you you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars behind costly photo editing softwares like photoshop and corel draw.
Go for free softwares like Picasa. Picasa is my favorite free digital photo editing software as no other rival offers so much. Moreover, it also manages your photo album and you can share your digital photos on the web. Click on link at the end of the article to learn more or download Picasa. Now, how to edit digital photos using Picasa? In this, you have the crop image feature. Crop images using that. You can change the temperature of the scene. You can lower the temperature which gives the picture a bluish effect. You should play with it and see the nice effects coming in.
Just play with the picture, use different options under effects and have fun. Give the pictures brightness or reduce it. Put a light and enlighten only your face in the pic and see how cool it looks!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kris_Foster
First of all you you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars behind costly photo editing softwares like photoshop and corel draw.
Go for free softwares like Picasa. Picasa is my favorite free digital photo editing software as no other rival offers so much. Moreover, it also manages your photo album and you can share your digital photos on the web. Click on link at the end of the article to learn more or download Picasa. Now, how to edit digital photos using Picasa? In this, you have the crop image feature. Crop images using that. You can change the temperature of the scene. You can lower the temperature which gives the picture a bluish effect. You should play with it and see the nice effects coming in.
Just play with the picture, use different options under effects and have fun. Give the pictures brightness or reduce it. Put a light and enlighten only your face in the pic and see how cool it looks!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kris_Foster
Tutorial free : Tips For Making Effective PowerPoint Presentations : e
Make use of the slide master feature to make your presentations in a simple, attractive and most importantly, consistent design. While there is nothing wrong with varying the presentation of content (e.g - text in one or two columns, bullet points, images and so on), the other elements of your design such as color, background and font should be consistent from slide to slide.
Limit the amount of text per slide. Pare it down to the essentials and use key phrases.
Don't go overboard with punctuation and definitely do not use ALL CAPS. Leave empty space on the side to make your presentation more readable.
Make your text easier to read by using contrasting colors for the background and text. A light background and dark text is best; avoid patterned backgrounds, these make your text very hard to read.
Don't be tempted by gimmicks like text fly-ins. These distract your audience; who are likely as not already tired of them anyway.
Going overboard with sounds and animation may make for a very flashy presentation, but looks less professional and can result in your presentation not being taken seriously.
Use high quality images which will appear clear even at the resolution required for projection. Good quality images will enhance your presentation, while poor quality, fuzzy images will detract from your message.
If you do use builds, make your content appear in a simple, consistent fashion - for instance, from the top or from the left. Only use these slides when absolutely necessary to drive a point home; otherwise, they needlessly slow down your presentation.
Limit the number of slides per minute. If you rapidly transition from one slide to the next, you can easily lose the interest of your audience. One slide per minute is a good rule.
Be ready to navigate through your presentation in a non-linear way if needed. PowerPoint allows you to jump ahead or back without having to flip back through the slides in between.
Be prepared to move forward and backward through your presentation; your audience may ask you to repeat a slide.
If possible, view your slides on the screen you'll use in your actual presentation. Be sure that they can be read from any seat in the room. Make sure that your text and images are large enough to be easily seen but not so large as to be distracting.
Always have a backup plan in case that something goes wrong in your presentation. Keep in mind that your animations will not be visible in handouts or transparencies.
Show your presentation ahead of time to someone who has never seen you present. Ask them for their honest opinion about the content, the colors and graphics, along with anything else they may have noticed.
Do not read from your slides. Your slides are for the audience, not you. Have your own talking points prepared before your presentation.
Talk to the audience, not to your slides. A lot of presenters make the mistake of speaking towards the screen, rather than to the audience.
Don't apologize for anything in your presentation. If there's something in your presentation which you feel may be difficult to read or understand, it's best to take it out of the presentation altogether.
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Limit the amount of text per slide. Pare it down to the essentials and use key phrases.
Don't go overboard with punctuation and definitely do not use ALL CAPS. Leave empty space on the side to make your presentation more readable.
Make your text easier to read by using contrasting colors for the background and text. A light background and dark text is best; avoid patterned backgrounds, these make your text very hard to read.
Don't be tempted by gimmicks like text fly-ins. These distract your audience; who are likely as not already tired of them anyway.
Going overboard with sounds and animation may make for a very flashy presentation, but looks less professional and can result in your presentation not being taken seriously.
Use high quality images which will appear clear even at the resolution required for projection. Good quality images will enhance your presentation, while poor quality, fuzzy images will detract from your message.
If you do use builds, make your content appear in a simple, consistent fashion - for instance, from the top or from the left. Only use these slides when absolutely necessary to drive a point home; otherwise, they needlessly slow down your presentation.
Limit the number of slides per minute. If you rapidly transition from one slide to the next, you can easily lose the interest of your audience. One slide per minute is a good rule.
Be ready to navigate through your presentation in a non-linear way if needed. PowerPoint allows you to jump ahead or back without having to flip back through the slides in between.
Be prepared to move forward and backward through your presentation; your audience may ask you to repeat a slide.
If possible, view your slides on the screen you'll use in your actual presentation. Be sure that they can be read from any seat in the room. Make sure that your text and images are large enough to be easily seen but not so large as to be distracting.
Always have a backup plan in case that something goes wrong in your presentation. Keep in mind that your animations will not be visible in handouts or transparencies.
Show your presentation ahead of time to someone who has never seen you present. Ask them for their honest opinion about the content, the colors and graphics, along with anything else they may have noticed.
Do not read from your slides. Your slides are for the audience, not you. Have your own talking points prepared before your presentation.
Talk to the audience, not to your slides. A lot of presenters make the mistake of speaking towards the screen, rather than to the audience.
Don't apologize for anything in your presentation. If there's something in your presentation which you feel may be difficult to read or understand, it's best to take it out of the presentation altogether.
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Tutorial free : 5 Ways to Put PowerPoint Presentation on Web : e
Want to share your original and creative presentations with others all over the world? Putting PowerPoint presentation on Web sounds a good idea. Especially in this era of Internet on which everyone can view various resources using their computers.
Here are 5 different ways to put PowerPoint presentation on Web. Each way has its cons and pros.
Method 1 Upload and link PowerPoint File directly
Yes, you could just upload PowerPoint file to your web site and link to it. Visitors click and download the file to view the presentation on their computers.
ConsVisitors should download the presentation before viewing. Visitors should install PowerPoint app or PowerPoint viewer to view it. The presentation file may have a big file size.
Pros
Just upload your presentation to your Website and link to it.
Share your presentation with all the animations and special effects.
Method 2 Share presentation on Slideshare.net
Slideshare.net is a famous presentation sharing website. Think of it as something like YouTube for slide shows. You can upload your presentations in PPT, PPS or POT formats to SlideShare and they're converted into shared media.
ConsAll the animations, multimedia files in the presentation will disappear.
ProsThe presentation can be viewed on any computers.
Method 3 Publish as HTML web page
PowerPoint lets you save your presentation as HTML, as a web page (Office button -> Save As -> Other Formats, and then choose Web Page in the "Save as type" pull-down menu).
ConsEach slide is saved as a separate image, with its own page, so you have to upload an entire folder of files to your server. It will not display properly for website visitors who aren't using IE.
Free open source software may be a stronger choice in this instance. OpenOffice Impress, the PowerPoint look-alike from OpenOffice.org, lets you create a PPT presentation from scratch, and it will also convert an existing PowerPoint presentation to HTML in a form that's compatible with a broader range of browsers.
Method 4 Flash it using Wondershare PPT2Flash
Actually, OpenOffice even offers to export your presentation as a Flash (SWF) format, but animations will disappear.
Wondershare PPT2Flash ,an add-in of PowerPoint, lets you convert PowerPoint presentation to Flash with one-click.
3 steps to convert your presentation to Flash: Download and install PPT2Flash -> Import PowerPoint presentation -> Click "Publish" to convert.
ProsHas up to 90% reduction in file size after conversion. Flash can be shown properly on any computers. The conversion retains all the animations, hyperlinks, multimedia file in your presentation. Flash is difficult to modify.
Method 5 Record it using Camtasia Studio
Download and install Comtasia on your computer and then follow the steps below. Step 1, save your PPT file as PPS file. Step 2, Set Camtasia studio to record the whole screen. Step 3, Play your PowerPoint PPS file and Press F9 to start recording the screen. Step 4, when you reach your last blank slide, Press F10 to tell Camtasia Recorder to stop recording. You will be prompted to save the captured slideshow, so choose a directory and enter filename. Step 5, save your capture in SWF format.
ConsIt will a little time-consuming if there are many slides in your presentation. Best way to publish your presentation on Web
If you want to make animated and protected presentation on Web in minutes, converting PowerPoint to Flash using Wondershare PPT2Flash sounds downright elegant!
Showing a Flash movie on web is most often as easy as uploading your SWF file to your web space and using a few lines of object/embed code to embed the file on your page.
Camtasia can record the screen and sound when your play your PowerPoint, but should pay $299 to buy which is higher than PPT2Flash ($59.95). For Mac users, you can upload your presentation to slideshare.net. If you only want to create static presentation on web, using OpenOffice to export your presentation to HTML or Flash would be better.
I hope you can use these 5 methods to share your presentation on web easily. Of course, if you have any other good methods, please let me know. Thanks!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sunny_Qing
Here are 5 different ways to put PowerPoint presentation on Web. Each way has its cons and pros.
Method 1 Upload and link PowerPoint File directly
Yes, you could just upload PowerPoint file to your web site and link to it. Visitors click and download the file to view the presentation on their computers.
ConsVisitors should download the presentation before viewing. Visitors should install PowerPoint app or PowerPoint viewer to view it. The presentation file may have a big file size.
Pros
Just upload your presentation to your Website and link to it.
Share your presentation with all the animations and special effects.
Method 2 Share presentation on Slideshare.net
Slideshare.net is a famous presentation sharing website. Think of it as something like YouTube for slide shows. You can upload your presentations in PPT, PPS or POT formats to SlideShare and they're converted into shared media.
ConsAll the animations, multimedia files in the presentation will disappear.
ProsThe presentation can be viewed on any computers.
Method 3 Publish as HTML web page
PowerPoint lets you save your presentation as HTML, as a web page (Office button -> Save As -> Other Formats, and then choose Web Page in the "Save as type" pull-down menu).
ConsEach slide is saved as a separate image, with its own page, so you have to upload an entire folder of files to your server. It will not display properly for website visitors who aren't using IE.
Free open source software may be a stronger choice in this instance. OpenOffice Impress, the PowerPoint look-alike from OpenOffice.org, lets you create a PPT presentation from scratch, and it will also convert an existing PowerPoint presentation to HTML in a form that's compatible with a broader range of browsers.
Method 4 Flash it using Wondershare PPT2Flash
Actually, OpenOffice even offers to export your presentation as a Flash (SWF) format, but animations will disappear.
Wondershare PPT2Flash ,an add-in of PowerPoint, lets you convert PowerPoint presentation to Flash with one-click.
3 steps to convert your presentation to Flash: Download and install PPT2Flash -> Import PowerPoint presentation -> Click "Publish" to convert.
ProsHas up to 90% reduction in file size after conversion. Flash can be shown properly on any computers. The conversion retains all the animations, hyperlinks, multimedia file in your presentation. Flash is difficult to modify.
Method 5 Record it using Camtasia Studio
Download and install Comtasia on your computer and then follow the steps below. Step 1, save your PPT file as PPS file. Step 2, Set Camtasia studio to record the whole screen. Step 3, Play your PowerPoint PPS file and Press F9 to start recording the screen. Step 4, when you reach your last blank slide, Press F10 to tell Camtasia Recorder to stop recording. You will be prompted to save the captured slideshow, so choose a directory and enter filename. Step 5, save your capture in SWF format.
ConsIt will a little time-consuming if there are many slides in your presentation. Best way to publish your presentation on Web
If you want to make animated and protected presentation on Web in minutes, converting PowerPoint to Flash using Wondershare PPT2Flash sounds downright elegant!
Showing a Flash movie on web is most often as easy as uploading your SWF file to your web space and using a few lines of object/embed code to embed the file on your page.
Camtasia can record the screen and sound when your play your PowerPoint, but should pay $299 to buy which is higher than PPT2Flash ($59.95). For Mac users, you can upload your presentation to slideshare.net. If you only want to create static presentation on web, using OpenOffice to export your presentation to HTML or Flash would be better.
I hope you can use these 5 methods to share your presentation on web easily. Of course, if you have any other good methods, please let me know. Thanks!
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Tutorial free : Why Do I Need to Use Access? : e
Microsoft Access is not an easy piece of software to learn and some people find Access courses to be frustrating as a result. The question some of them ask is whether Access might be overkill for what they are doing. Excel has simple database functions, so couldn't you just use that instead? The answer is a definite "maybe".
Relational vs. Flat File Databases
An Excel database is a flat file database. All of your information is kept in rows and columns as though on a piece of paper. The classic example of a flat file database is a list in which each line contains name, address, and phone number. This could be customer records or an employee internal extension list.
If this is all you need from your database then Excel will work just fine. You can even perform simple database functions like extracting a list of all of the customers who live in a certain city for targeted mailings.
Access is a relational database. The structure of a relational database is more complex. It consists of several tables, each like a flat file database, but the tables are linked to each other by common identifiers.
Most businesses need to keep track of more than just customer addresses. A second table of all orders placed would link to the customer address table by means of a customer ID. This would allow you to perform searches such as people who ordered blue widgets in December 2006 or who ordered more than $500 in one month.
Keys that You Need to Consider Access Courses
Often our databases grow over time and projects that worked in Excel two years ago need to be converted to Access now. How do we find these? Here are a few clues.
- When you add or change information, do you have to do it in multiple places in a workbook or even across multiple workbooks? - Do several people need to view and change the data simultaneously? - Is the project becoming so large that it is hard to find the data you want? - Are you printing mailing labels or generating reports based on the data?
These are the major reasons the people decide to take the plunge and enroll in Access courses. Once they convert the project to a relational database, they find the work flows much more smoothly and fewer errors are made.
The Transition to Access
As mentioned above, some people are scared off by Access courses so decide to stay with their inefficient Excel databases.
If that has been your problem, find a vendor who customizes Access courses to your needs. The instructor can use your Excel database as an example and can show you the specific steps you need to take to convert the data. You will get the tools you need for your specific application.
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Relational vs. Flat File Databases
An Excel database is a flat file database. All of your information is kept in rows and columns as though on a piece of paper. The classic example of a flat file database is a list in which each line contains name, address, and phone number. This could be customer records or an employee internal extension list.
If this is all you need from your database then Excel will work just fine. You can even perform simple database functions like extracting a list of all of the customers who live in a certain city for targeted mailings.
Access is a relational database. The structure of a relational database is more complex. It consists of several tables, each like a flat file database, but the tables are linked to each other by common identifiers.
Most businesses need to keep track of more than just customer addresses. A second table of all orders placed would link to the customer address table by means of a customer ID. This would allow you to perform searches such as people who ordered blue widgets in December 2006 or who ordered more than $500 in one month.
Keys that You Need to Consider Access Courses
Often our databases grow over time and projects that worked in Excel two years ago need to be converted to Access now. How do we find these? Here are a few clues.
- When you add or change information, do you have to do it in multiple places in a workbook or even across multiple workbooks? - Do several people need to view and change the data simultaneously? - Is the project becoming so large that it is hard to find the data you want? - Are you printing mailing labels or generating reports based on the data?
These are the major reasons the people decide to take the plunge and enroll in Access courses. Once they convert the project to a relational database, they find the work flows much more smoothly and fewer errors are made.
The Transition to Access
As mentioned above, some people are scared off by Access courses so decide to stay with their inefficient Excel databases.
If that has been your problem, find a vendor who customizes Access courses to your needs. The instructor can use your Excel database as an example and can show you the specific steps you need to take to convert the data. You will get the tools you need for your specific application.
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Tutorial free : What is Microsoft Excel and How Do I Use It? : e
When you start Excel you see a page with 'cells'. Each cell can be identified by a column and a row number. The normal view is where you see the columns with A, B, C, etc as headers and the rows are numbered as 1, 2, 3, 4. You can also have the view where you see the columns and the headers with numbers starting from 1. In this case known as the 'R1C1' reference style view each cell can be identified with numbers. The columns are numbered from 1 to 256 in Excel 2003 and the rows are numbered from 1 to 65536. In Excel 2007 the rows are numbered from 1 to 1048576 and columns from 1 to 16384. For example, the 4th row and the third column cell would be identified as 'R4C3'. Mostly Microsoft Excel uses the 'R1C1' reference style when recording macros. Most people, however, work with the default alpha-numeric style.
You can now enter text, numbers, currencies, dates, formulas and functions in the cells. It is a good idea to apply the proper formatting on the entered data. For example, we may want to enter the salaries of employees as whole numbers and the prices of items in decimal format. Calculations in Microsoft Excel are performed by using the 'cell addresses', i. e. we do not use the values in the cells. For example, let's say, we have the whole number '10' in cell A1 and the decimal number '5.6' in cell B1. Now we wanted to display the sum of these two numbers in cell C1. We would use the formula '=A1+B1' in cell C1. So you see, we have not used the formula '=10+5.6' in the cell C1. Text in Excel can not only be formatted in Excel but it can also be manipulated in interesting ways. For example, you entered 'Andy Davis' in cell A1. Now you want to separate the first and the last names. That can be done easily in Excel.
Date and times are entered into Excel cells in special formats and they be manipulated using formulas and functions. This can be very useful in project management or time management. Formulas and functions form the heart of Excel. You can use simple in-built functions like 'sum', 'average', 'maximum', 'minimum', etc or you can create your own complicated functions and formulas to perform interesting and difficult calculations.
Next you have to decide where and how you wish to place your data in Excel. A good design helps in the ease of calculations later. Empty rows and columns between data should be avoided. If the data we enter into Excel cells spans a very big range and we need to keep the headers in place while we scroll up and down or left and right, we can freeze the column and/or the row headers. This 'freezing' helps us to see which data belongs to which item.
Once the data is in place, we need to get information out of our data. Microsoft Excel provides excellent tools to sort, filter, format and analyze data. Using these tools you could, for example, easily find out which salesperson is performing well or which product is selling well or how much money people owe your business or the other way round. Sometimes we may need to know quickly whether we have an item in stock or not. The 'scenarios' feature in Excel helps understand worst, normal and good situations.
You may also need to present your data to your boss or another company. Microsoft Excel's charting and Pivot tables and reports provide an excellent way to present your data. After familiarizing yourself with many of the lovely possibilities of using Excel for your business, professional or personal needs, you may try your hand at 'macros'. Macros help you to automate many calculations and data entries. You will need to learn Visual Basic for Application (VBA). VBA is easy to learn and the Visual Basic Editor comes free with Excel.
We have created more than 90 free Excel training videos to demonstrate the above concepts. These videos are freely available via the link given below.
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You can now enter text, numbers, currencies, dates, formulas and functions in the cells. It is a good idea to apply the proper formatting on the entered data. For example, we may want to enter the salaries of employees as whole numbers and the prices of items in decimal format. Calculations in Microsoft Excel are performed by using the 'cell addresses', i. e. we do not use the values in the cells. For example, let's say, we have the whole number '10' in cell A1 and the decimal number '5.6' in cell B1. Now we wanted to display the sum of these two numbers in cell C1. We would use the formula '=A1+B1' in cell C1. So you see, we have not used the formula '=10+5.6' in the cell C1. Text in Excel can not only be formatted in Excel but it can also be manipulated in interesting ways. For example, you entered 'Andy Davis' in cell A1. Now you want to separate the first and the last names. That can be done easily in Excel.
Date and times are entered into Excel cells in special formats and they be manipulated using formulas and functions. This can be very useful in project management or time management. Formulas and functions form the heart of Excel. You can use simple in-built functions like 'sum', 'average', 'maximum', 'minimum', etc or you can create your own complicated functions and formulas to perform interesting and difficult calculations.
Next you have to decide where and how you wish to place your data in Excel. A good design helps in the ease of calculations later. Empty rows and columns between data should be avoided. If the data we enter into Excel cells spans a very big range and we need to keep the headers in place while we scroll up and down or left and right, we can freeze the column and/or the row headers. This 'freezing' helps us to see which data belongs to which item.
Once the data is in place, we need to get information out of our data. Microsoft Excel provides excellent tools to sort, filter, format and analyze data. Using these tools you could, for example, easily find out which salesperson is performing well or which product is selling well or how much money people owe your business or the other way round. Sometimes we may need to know quickly whether we have an item in stock or not. The 'scenarios' feature in Excel helps understand worst, normal and good situations.
You may also need to present your data to your boss or another company. Microsoft Excel's charting and Pivot tables and reports provide an excellent way to present your data. After familiarizing yourself with many of the lovely possibilities of using Excel for your business, professional or personal needs, you may try your hand at 'macros'. Macros help you to automate many calculations and data entries. You will need to learn Visual Basic for Application (VBA). VBA is easy to learn and the Visual Basic Editor comes free with Excel.
We have created more than 90 free Excel training videos to demonstrate the above concepts. These videos are freely available via the link given below.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dinesh_Takyar
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