Why Use Digital Signage for School Advertising
Digital signage has revolutionized the way schools communicate with their students, parents, and staff. It enables schools to display important information, announcements, and upcoming events in a visually appealing and interactive way. By utilizing PowerPoint and...
Streamline Your PowerPoint Presentations with Data Merge Using PresentationPoint’s DataPoint Plugin
If you frequently make presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint and find yourself manually updating your charts and slides every time data changes, you need to try PresentationPoint's DataPoint Plugin. With this powerful plugin, you can create dynamic, data-driven...
Wayfinding Digital Signage to Reduce Customer Uncertainty
Effective wayfinding digital signage allows people to move smoothly through their surroundings, whether it's a shopping mall, hospital, office complex, or any other space. Wayfinding not only aids navigation but also alleviates customer uncertainty, creating a more...
Aptos: Microsoft’s New Office Font Bringing Modernity to Documents
In the ever-evolving world of typography, fonts play a crucial role in shaping the visual identity of a brand or document. Microsoft, known for its commitment to innovation and design, has recently introduced a new font called Aptos. Previously known as Bierstadt,...
The Hidden Time Sink: Copying and Pasting Values in PowerPoint
Do you ever find yourself spending endless hours in PowerPoint, copying and pasting values from one slide to another, or from another document or source to your slides? If so, you're not alone. Many people underestimate the amount of time they spend on these seemingly...
ChatGPT PowerPoint Outlining: Using AI To Plan Your Presentation
I love outlining! I use outlines when planning, brainstorming, writing, and creating presentations. In this article we will explore the benefits of using ChatGPT PowerPoint outlining to speed up and enhance your presentation creation process. When you start up with a...
Data Visualization Best Practices: Designing Engaging and Insightful Visualizations
In today's data-driven world, effective data visualization has become crucial for conveying complex information in a simple and visually appealing format. PowerPoint, with its versatile features, allows users to create impactful presentations incorporating insightful...
PresentationPoint: Fighting Slow Communication
Effective communication is essential for any successful organization. However, slow communication can be a major obstacle to productivity, collaboration, and success. That's why we're excited to introduce our new slogan, "Fighting Slow Communication." The Problem with...
Festival Event Wayfinding Made Easy
Festivals are a great way to spend time with friends and family, enjoy music, food, and drinks, and create unforgettable memories. However, with large crowds and multiple stages or attractions, festivals can also be overwhelming and confusing, especially when it comes...
Navigate, Inform, Impress: 10 Benefits of Hotel Digital Signage
In the hospitality industry, a guest's experience is everything. As a hotel operator, you want your guests to have the best experience possible to keep them coming back. Here are 10 ways you can use hotel digital signage to maximize your customer experience and to...
The Benefits of Restaurant Digital Signage
Restaurant digital signage is one of the most powerful and most cost effective ways to promote your restaurant and engage your patrons. If you're looking for a way to get more people in your doors, or if you're just looking for a way to get them to order more food and...
PresentationPoint celebrates 25th birthday
PresentationPoint, a leading provider of digital signage software and presentation and automation tools, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Founded in 1998, the company has grown from a small startup to a global player in the digital signage industry. Over...
Advantages of Using Digital Menus in Your Restaurant
In the current digital age, technology is rapidly transforming every aspect of our lives, including the way we order food in restaurants, now by offering digital menus. A digital menu is a digital version of your restaurant's printed menu. It's an easy way to provide...
From Clay Tablets to Cloud-Based Platforms: The Evolution of Public Signage
Evolution of Public Signage What’s one thing a barbershop, a laundromat, and an arcade all have in common? No, not quarters. They all have some sort of signage advertising their services. In fact, most businesses do. Human beings have been communicating since the dawn...
Data Integration Tool: Combine And Visualize Information
Data is a key component of any business. The information you gather can be used to make important decisions, connect with new customers, and even show off to investors. But what do you do when you have multiple sources of data? How can you combine data from all your...
Free Tool to Export PowerPoint Slides to High Quality Pictures
Introduction You can export a PowerPoint slide as high quality PNG or JPG by changing a registry setting. That is not my favorite way to do it, because you have to go into and make changes to the heart of your computer. Export a PowerPoint slide as PNG or JPG picture...
PowerPoint presentation to show Key Performance Indicators
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a great way to measure the performance of your business. They show how you're doing against your goals and help you keep track of changes over time. KPI templates for a PowerPoint presentation can be used for many different types...
Creative Business Presentation Ideas That Will Make Your Slides Rock
Business presentations have a reputation for being boring. Too many slides with bullet points and reams of financial tables. Here are our creative business presentation ideas to help you break out of boring and into grabbing your audience's attention.One Point Per...
Waiting Room Digital Signage Appointments Screen
In this video and article, we will show you how to make a simple waiting room digital signage appointment screen using PowerPoint and DataPoint. The video shows the step-by-step process, but we have also laid out the process in this article.Medical waiting rooms are a...
FAQ: Data Security and DataPoint
Data security is a major concern for all organizations. With today's world of international hackers, social media tracking, and overreaching government surveillance, it's important to know how your organization can protect its data. With this in mind, we put together...
Case Study: Election Viewing Party
In this article, we discuss how Robertson County Government in Tennessee in the US used DataPoint to create their own election dashboard software for their election viewing party. A big thank you to Chet Biggers, IT Manager for Robertson Country for sharing this story...
PowerPoint Automation: Why You Need It and How to Get It
Microsoft Office is a very powerful tool that can be even more powerful with PowerPoint automation. Why do you need to use Automation in PowerPoint? Let's face it - we are all far too busy to be spending time copying and pasting numbers, pictures, and other data into...
Scoreboard Software: British Gymnastics
This story comes from the UK and shows how one of our clients, British Gymnastics, uses DataPoint as scoreboard software for some of their events. About British Gymnastics British Gymnastics is the National Governing Body for Gymnastics in the UK. They are based at...
PowerPoint Advance Slides Control with DataPoint
How do you control whether you want your data-enabled PowerPoint to advance slides manually instead of jumping automatically to the next slide? Data-enabled presentations are normal for our DataPoint plugin. You can link your slides to data and show data in real time....
The Incredible Power of Customized Presentations
Imagine if each person in your audience received a customized presentation just for them based on their needs and interests. That's right: a custom presentation. Just for them. If you can't imagine it, that's because it sounds impossible—but not by using DataPoint's...
12 Digital Signage Benefits You Should Take Advantage of Right Now
Digital signage is exploding. Are you missing out? Here are some digital signage benefits your business or organization should take advantage of right now.#1: Easier Content Creation Creating content for digital signage is much easier than creating content for...
Split-Flap Displays Reimagined: Split-Flap TV
Remember the split-flap displays on train stations and airports? The ones that showed your flight or train schedule, with letters and numbers that clacked as they changed? Generations of travelers have many fond memories of these clacking information screens seeing...
A PowerPoint Designer’s Worst Nightmare
What is a PowerPoint designer's worst nightmare? When your amazingly crafted, beautiful PowerPoint presentation ends up in the hands of your client's employees who then proceed to butcher your treasured creation beyond recognition!You know the feeling. You spend hours...
Lobby Digital Signage Case Study: St. John Properties
In this case study, we explore how St John Properties uses DataPoint to create their building lobby digital signage directories. https://youtu.be/uy88qbZNjco About St. John Properties St. John Properties is a commercial Real Estate company headquartered in...
FAQ: Showing Different Text Each Time a Slide Comes Up
I know there is the RSS news ticker feature. But, I wonder if we could have a word doc, excel file, or something with rows of text and set up a slide so that each time it comes up, it will randomly select a line of text to display? We wanted to do something like a...
Microsoft announces Power BI PowerPoint Integration – How Does it Compare to DataPoint?
Microsoft recently announced Power BI PowerPoint integration, finally connecting two of their major software products - their premier data reporting tool (Power BI) with the world's leading presentation software (PowerPoint). Let's examine their solution and see what...
Certificate Maker: Create Custom Certificates In Minutes
A recent question by one of our clients wondering if they can use PowerPoint as a certificate maker to generate bulk certificates.Is it possible to generate certificates in bulk? I want to create a certificate for all our students, designed in PowerPoint, and then...
The Power of QR Code Signage for Your Business
Digital signage is a powerful tool. With its motion, video, and vivid imagery, it's no surprise that it grabs our attention as we walk by. But what happens after the patron sees the ad? How do you get them to take action NOW instead of just going about their business?...
How to Make a PowerPoint Slideshow that Runs Continuously
We best know PowerPoint with its interactive presentations that are typically used at meetings where you have one person (the presenter) who shows a slide and tells about it. When he is finished, he uses the mouse or a presenter stick to click and move to the next...
PowerPoint Countdown Timer
A ticking countdown timer on a television screen is great to announce an event or launch of something. As a business owner or as a good leader in an office or company, you need to create awareness or trigger curiosity for an event. So, you are to announce your event...
Thematic Maps With Ease: Data-Based Color Changes
Recently I was asked by a customer if DataPoint can show thematic maps, colored by data. A thematic map is a type of map that portrays the geographic pattern of a particular subject matter in a geographic area or shape. Of course, the answer was yes, but you need to...
5 Ways To Use Digital Signage QR Codes to Increase Sales
QR codes (also called quick-response codes) are like barcodes, but they're made to be scanned by a cell phone camera. They're used by businesses today in all kinds of ways—from marketing to creating a seamless payment experience. The beauty of QR codes is that they...
New York Weather Template Free Download
Download our free New York weather template for PowerPoint. This template displays the current weather conditions, the high temperature and low temperature of the day, as well as the forecasted weather for the next five days. This free New York weather template will...
Nursery Digital Signage Case Study – Garden View Nursery
Our latest success story and nursery digital signage case study comes from Tyler Meahl, IT Manager at Garden View Nursery in Irwindale, California. Digital Signage Problem Poor internet was preventing Garden View from using a digital signage solution for their retail...
Office Digital Signage for Workplace Communication
If you're running a business, you need to know how to effectively communicate with your employees. For the past few years, office digital signage for workplace communication has been on the rise. Why? Because it helps businesses harness the power of technology to do...
The Best Software for Data Reporting
“Data” and “report” are the two words you are well accustomed to, even though you may or may not have to deal with it every day. But in case you have to create reports and manage dashboards every single day, then you are already aware of how arduous it is to manually...
How to Show Real-Time and Dynamic QR Codes for PowerPoint
QR code images or quick response images are often used in prints and displays. These can be scanned with your telephone's camera app. This camera app detects that it is a QR code image, and translates the information into a link to a destination where you can find...
Advantages of Internal Recruitment
When you are looking to fill openings in your company, have you thought of the advantages of internal recruitment? What is Internal Recruitment? Internal recruitment is the filling of jobs from people already within your organization. Advantages of Internal...
Create a Live Coronavirus Dashboard using PowerPoint
In this video, we show you how to create a live coronavirus dashboard using PowerPoint and the PowerPoint add-on, DataPoint. Then we break down some of the steps and show how-to screenshots in the article.Find A Coronavirus Dashboard Data Feed The first step is to...
Get the best out of PowerPoint using DataPoint PowerPoint Generation
Creating reports and data presentations out of scratch can be a hefty task and requires lots of research. The process begins with the collection of most updated numbers and stats found in the internet or any other source and then operation to sort out those data...
Dynamic Quotes in PowerPoint
Customers all over the world use our DataPoint plugin for PowerPoint to run a real-time slideshow with up-to-date news, weather, key performance indicators, messages, etc. Some want to add inspirational or funny quotes to this slideshow to motivate personnel. Let's...
How to Automate Slide Creation and Updates in PowerPoint
You are already aware of the fact that Microsoft Office is a very powerful tool and a lot of things can be easily done using the Office software such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, etc. most of these products have been designed to make your...
Create a Live Weather Display Using PowerPoint
In this webinar recording, PresentationPoint partner Kurt Dupont shows how to set up a Live Weather display using PowerPoint and our PowerPoint add-ons, DataPoint, or Dynamic Weather. Have a look at this exclusive and in-depth webinar about showing real-time and live...
Virtual Church Services using PowerPoint and VideoPoint
In this article/video and case study we look at how Reverend George Rizor creates virtual church services using PowerPoint and our VideoPoint software. For three years now, my church services, which incorporate multiple cameras have been working terrifically. The...
Digital Signage Display Tips for all Types of Companies
Digital Signage software is a very important aspect of any business that wants to grow their engagement and customer base. As well as if any company wants to create a positive impact worldwide, then what is better than advertising through digital signage displays? But...
Paste Special
PowerPoint is an amazing program not only because it's a great way to communicate and share ideas with others, but also because it can take content from myriad sources, and combine them all cohesively with visual unity. There are essentially two ways in which you can...
The Adidas Network or Digital Signage by USB
Professionally I have been active for more than 30 years in the AV and digital signage industry. Every day I'm confronted with people that are designing their advertising and messaging in a basic design tool, exporting it to images, copying it on a USB stick and then...
Amazing Things You Can Do With Airtable And PowerPoint
Here is a recording of a recent webinar we put together on "Amazing Things You Can Do With Airtable and PowerPoint" exploring how you can use Airtable for online data collection and then use DataPoint to show Airtable data in real-time on PowerPoint.Dynamic Text Boxes...
Countdown to New Year 2022
The last countdown event of the year is always the countdown that we all do; the countdown with family and friends to New Year. Think about Times Square, New York. That is the best example of counting down to New Year. You can create that same effect in your office,...
Countdown to Christmas 2021
A computer or television screen that counts down to next Christmas, creates attention and Xmas-awareness. This awareness is very important for shops. Public holidays or celebrations generate extra sales. Imagine Valentine. When you see that tomorrow it is Valentine,...
Take your Overall Equipment Effectiveness Display to the Next Level Using DataPoint
If you are white-collar personnel or a firm whose whole work involves dealing with numbers, data (i.e., creating reports and presentations) and dashboard, you know how difficult it is to sort them out and arrange them in one place. But what if you can do much more...
Using Information Screens at Schools
Technology has made our daily lives effortless in almost every aspect. Especially when the pandemic hit us and going outside for either work or school became totally restricted. Technology played a pivotal role and connected us with our family, school, work etc. With...
Data Reporting in PowerPoint
Technology has heavily influenced our daily life, making our lives easier in every aspect. Daily necessities have become easily available and affordable. In the corporate world, where people often have to track and play with numbers, technology has created different...
Fundraising PowerPoint Ideas
Here are some fundraising PowerPoint ideas to help you use PowerPoint for fundraising for your organization.1: Public Speaking Opportunities Public speaking is a great way to use PowerPoint for fundraising. You can speak in front of hundreds of people and get the...
We Killed Manual Updating of Data in PowerPoint
Updating data manually is always a hefty task. You have to go through piles of pages to find a few relevant pieces of information you are looking for. But does it end there? Unfortunately, the answer is no. After finding the data you are looking for, you will have to...
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