Jul 31, 2024 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To
In the fast-paced world of business presentations, the need for real-time data integration in PowerPoint is more critical than ever. Our DataPoint plugin revolutionizes the way you integrate live data into your presentations, ensuring that your information is always...
May 27, 2024 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To
Here at PresentationPoint, we LOVE PowerPoint. Its ease of use and the fact that most people in organizations already have access to PowerPoint as part of the Microsoft Office Suite make it the perfect companion platform for DataPoint. Another amazing feature of...
Oct 9, 2023 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To
​Real-time data is becoming increasingly important in many different industries for informed decision-making. Displaying such data on television screens can be an effective way to help people access, interpret, and respond to the information in real-time. Here are 24...
Sep 25, 2023 | Articles, DataPoint, Education, How-To
In the world of reporting, the choice of fonts holds immense power. The right font can elevate the visual appeal of a report, enhance readability, and communicate information effectively. With a plethora of font options available, it can be overwhelming to choose the...
Sep 12, 2023 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To
In today’s fast-paced and data-driven world, static presentations with outdated data have become a hindrance to effective communication and decision-making. PowerPoint presentations have long been a popular medium for conveying information, but relying on old...
Sep 1, 2023 | Articles, DataPoint, Education, How-To
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...
Aug 17, 2023 | Articles, How-To
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,...
Mar 4, 2023 | How-To
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...
Sep 27, 2022 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To
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...
Sep 10, 2022 | How-To
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....
May 26, 2022 | Articles, Digital Signage, FAQ, How-To
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...
May 19, 2022 | DataPoint, How-To
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...
May 12, 2022 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To, Maps
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...
Feb 7, 2022 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, How-To, Merge
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...
Jan 31, 2022 | Articles, DataPoint, Digital Signage, Dynamic elements, How-To, Weather
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...
Jan 24, 2022 | Articles, How-To, iPoint, SignageTube
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...
Jan 17, 2022 | Articles, How-To
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...
Jan 8, 2022 | Articles, Digital Signage, How-To
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...
Dec 20, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, Evergreen, How-To
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....
Dec 11, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To
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,...
Dec 7, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
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,...
Oct 2, 2021 | Articles, How-To
Microsoft has announced that they are going to add some new features in their one of the most popular and commonly used products, PowerPoint. PowerPoint was first released on April 20, 1987, and was initially available for Mac. Later on, it was acquired by Microsoft...
Sep 28, 2021 | Articles, Evergreen, How-To
I love when I drive or walk by a business and they have a funny sign out front. It shows me that the shop owners have a sense of humor and I have a warm feeling about the business and enjoy that they made me laugh. In this video, we will show you how to create your...
May 11, 2021 | Articles, How-To
A surprising message from Microsoft recently. Microsoft is going to replace its default font. Originally it started with Times New Roman and with Office 2007 it switched to the current Calibri font which was the default font for the last 15 years. Now Microsoft is...
May 10, 2021 | Articles, How-To
Tech-giant Microsoft recently announced 2 new versions of Office. A consumer Office 2021 version and Office LTSC for commercial customers. They will become available later this year for both macOS and Windows. After Office 2016, Microsoft started to promote more of...
Nov 10, 2020 | Articles, How-To
This article will help you to set up a digital menu board for your restaurant, take-away, bar, or coffee shop. Back in the old days, people used menus on paper, but they were expensive to create, and expensive to update because you had to reprint them. Or they used...
Sep 5, 2020 | How-To
Copyrights on Images for Presentations Until recently, finding high-quality images for use on presentations used to be an uphill task for many business owners. This was because they usually could not afford the time to go around searching, or may just not be...
Aug 8, 2020 | FAQ, How-To
Does it make sense to export a 1920×1080 PowerPoint presentation to a 4K video? Most of the pictures deployed in the presentation are in full HD 1920×1080 and not in 4K. VA Easy designing in PowerPoint with multiple slides, build your own commercials and advertising...
Jun 6, 2020 | Evergreen, How-To, MessagePoint
Do you want to set up a corporate screen saver on all computers? Maybe you want to communicate with your colleagues to spread news, sales updates, new employees, or promotions. Let me give you 2 options to accomplish that. Both options start with a PowerPoint...
May 17, 2020 | Dynamic elements, How-To
You can perfectly insert a video on your PowerPoint slide. And you can repeat it and even play over multiple slides. But when you wanted to run a slide show with messages and advertising e.g. for digital signage purposes, then sometimes you want to show an independent...
May 10, 2020 | How-To
We have talked about using a PowerPoint presentation to design your advertising, commercials, menu boards and more for digital signage on television screens. See our SignageTube digital signage in the cloud solution, as well as our iPoint digital signage solution. A...
May 5, 2020 | Articles, How-To
Most modern televisions have a usb slot on them so that you can put your pictures and videos on your usb drive and show them on your television. But is a usb drive useful for digital signage or should you have a dedicated digital signage media player? When I travel, I...
May 4, 2020 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To, Marketing and Advertising, VideoPoint
There is an increased interest in live television on slides. More presentations are given and people try to combine television with PowerPoint slides with information, instructions, and charts. Nolan Haims tweeted this request of having PowerPoint to show live video...
Apr 29, 2020 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Most people use PowerPoint in meetings and they talk (a lot) while they have a PowerPoint slide show running in the background. They use a mouse or presentation remote to advance to the next slide for the next message. But our audience are people looking at digital...
Apr 26, 2020 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
I guess that not many people use and know the slide master option of PowerPoint. The slide master is the starting position of your slide where you can control the zones on your slides, default shapes, colors, backgrounds, fonts, etc. Basically what you put on your...
Apr 17, 2020 | Evergreen, How-To, VideoPoint
You can connect a few types of cameras to your computer. First of all, we have the (internal or external) webcam. You can connect your photo or video camera. Or (via a long way) you can connect to any IP camera worldwide. Think about security cameras in a shop, mall...
Apr 16, 2020 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, How-To, Merge
When automating PowerPoint data presentations, Excel worksheets are a great tool to use. You can open a presentation and always see the latest Excel info on your slides. No more copying over your Excel data to PowerPoint in order to present or distribute it. Or maybe...
Mar 24, 2020 | Articles, How-To
Excel is a great tool to quickly store and calculate data and is probably more used than a real database system. Why? Because everyone has it, you don’t need to install and configure a database system, no real database design needed. You just start with a new...
Mar 18, 2020 | Articles, Healthcare, How-To
Work Lessons from Coronavirus With the Coronavirus spreading around the world, many companies and organizations, including our own are having to quickly adapt as this situation affects staffing, travel plans, and many aspects of our operation. Here are some of the...
Mar 16, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Healthcare, How-To
The Coronavirus spread has had a major impact on the world. In this article we will talk about how you can use travel and health care digital signage to keep people informed and help slow the spread of the Coronavirus. These techniques can also be used in other...
Feb 28, 2020 | Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To
We recently created this data-driven dashboard in PowerPoint by connecting our presentation to a database with our DataPoint plugin. The result is quite astonishing. The database is basically a dummy, where we have a small utility to execute random updates on the...
Feb 7, 2020 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
PowerPoint is such a great and easy tool to create your digital signage videos. You will find professional and great designed ready-made templates, as well as you can create your own digital signage presentations. Use a slide per message, or a slide per product or...
Feb 4, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
We are proud to announce that we have completed a new development. Some revolutionary development in the digital signage world. We can announce that we now have a SignageTube player app for smart TVs. SignageTube is our digital signage in the cloud solution where you...
Feb 1, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To
Fundraising is a way of collecting voluntary contributions or donations for a purpose. From door to door, on a shopping street, on television, on the internet, Facebook collections etc. Fundraising is on the rise, especially due to social media. Think about...
Jan 25, 2020 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Video is so much richer than a slide with text and images. You can create great visuals when you combine the flexibility of PowerPoint to design a slide, and a video that you add to your slide. The combined result is astonishing. A video is the result of live or...
Dec 11, 2019 | Articles, How-To
Here is Vickie Gould’s presentation from our 2019 Presentation Ideas Conference. Be Memorable and Close More Sales with Story What’s the use of great teaching points if your audience never remembers it or buys what you’re selling? Be the presentation that...
Dec 10, 2019 | Articles, How-To, Tutorials
Here is a recording Chantal Bossé’s presentation from our 2019 Presentation Ideas Conference. Taking Advantage of Artificial Intelligence with PowerPoint O365 Few people realize that AI is also a part of their PowerPoint O365 tool. In this session we will see 3...
Dec 9, 2019 | Articles, How-To, Tutorials
Here is a recording of Justin Arnold’s presentation from our Presentation Ideas 2019 Conference. 7 Ways To Create Highly Versatile Non Linear Presentations So you learned PowerPoint so well you could do it backwards? Well why does every presentation start at the...
Dec 6, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, Reporting, Tutorials
Here is a recording of Kurt Dupont’s presentation at our Presentation Ideas 2019 Online Conference. Generating Reports Using PowerPoint When you think of business reports, you probably think of Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word, not PowerPoint. If so, you are...
Dec 5, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To
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,...
Dec 3, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
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,...
Nov 16, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Information screens at offices and factories are a great way of communicating with your personnel and colleagues. We have written that already before many times. You can display company messages, safety instructions, announcements, achievements, new employees,...
Aug 3, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
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...
May 28, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
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...
May 23, 2019 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ, How-To
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...
May 13, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, Weather
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...
Apr 16, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, How-To, Merge
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...
Mar 23, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, iPoint
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...
Mar 16, 2019 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Evergreen, How-To, Merge
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...
Mar 3, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Dynamic elements, How-To
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...
Mar 2, 2019 | Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To, Industrial/Manufacturing, Maps, Reporting
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....
Feb 2, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, How-To
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...
Sep 1, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Our customer AB Inbev (Leuven plant in Belgium) asked us to use a data-driven presentation for their LED signage wall in the entrance of the brewery. They already had this LED display operational, mainly showing the number of days since the last accident, then a...
Mar 18, 2018 | DataPoint Automation, How-To
p Microsoft Office versions The information below refers to Microsoft Office 2016, 2019 and Office 365. Click here for Office 2010 and 2013. Many people and companies use Microsoft Excel datasheets to store data. It often starts as a quick document to share...
Feb 11, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, Marketing and Advertising
In this article, we will explore why PowerPoint ad creation is a great alternative to more expensive graphic design software. Advertising brings in customers, as well as money. With the emergence of screens everywhere, this has led to an increase in the available...
Jan 21, 2018 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Here is how to use Microsoft Exchange and PowerPoint as a meeting room booking system. You see those tablet devices hanging next to the door of a meeting rooms in offices. This discretely display meeting information and you can see who is having a meeting and when...
Oct 29, 2017 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Create your own DIY PowerPoint presentation that counts down automatically to New Year. Set a target date, January 1 2018, and run your slide show. The slide will count down the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds. Our DataPoint add-on for PowerPoint, or our...
Oct 20, 2017 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Create your own DIY PowerPoint presentation that counts down automatically to Christmas. Set a target date, December 25, and run your slide show. The slide will count down the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds. Our DataPoint add-on for PowerPoint, or our...
Aug 28, 2017 | DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Great to see that many great looking high-resolution images are used in PowerPoint presentations. Pictures are great as an illustration on your slides, to add some visual aid to your message, or a great background. But very often, we see that the quality of the...
Aug 7, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To, iPoint
When disaster strikes, how do you keep people informed? We feel that emergency digital signage is a powerful channel for informing the public in emergency situations, complementing other channels like emergency radio & TV, email lists, and phone/text messaging....
Jul 17, 2017 | How-To, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising
Our product called iPoint is a great software solution to create, assign and distribute playlists with presentations and videos to remote television screens. Professional people call this digital signage. Not only is iPoint great for digital signage, you can also use...
Jul 3, 2017 | Data Dashboards, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
PowerPoint is a popular software program that is included with most versions of Microsoft Office. Most people use PowerPoint to create presentations and to show charts and graphs. However, PowerPoint can be used for so much more than just these things. PowerPoint...
Jun 26, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Looking for an inexpensive way to create your first digital signage? Try our free digital signage software, ShowPoint. ShowPoint is a simple, yet powerful tool that lets you turn PowerPoint presentations into automatically running digital signage on TVs or computer...
Jun 12, 2017 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, iPoint
Digital Signage Player Introduction We have many experiences in setting up computers as a digital signage player. Let’s give an expert overview on the actions that you need to execute to turn a (new) computer into a full functioning and full operational digital...
Apr 21, 2017 | How-To, iPoint
A digital signage planning tool allows you to create and schedule playlists. A playlist is a list of multimedia files that you want to play together on your digital signage screens in your school, office or factory. In this article, we will show you how to set digital...
Apr 13, 2017 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Our business is data driven presentations. But what is a data presentation exactly? Let me try to explain that to you with a real life situation. When you are travelling, you arrive in the airport and the first thing that you will do when you enter the airport...
Mar 30, 2017 | How-To, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising
You are running an advertising system or digital signage system for your customers or you have a shop and you show commercials of your vendors. Then they will ask for proof of play. You can provide this proof by setting up digital signage advertising tracking. They...
Mar 22, 2017 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Evergreen, Government, How-To
As is a small town of about 8,200 people in the province of Limburg in Belgium. As is also the home of PresentationPoint. The town hall of As helps clients every day. They used to have an “open” waiting room concept but this didn’t offer much privacy...
Feb 24, 2017 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, How-To
Displaying real-time information in a running slide show is what our DataPoint add-on does. So you set up a link to your data file(s) like a text file, Excel file, or simple Microsoft Access database, and you run the slide show. But how can you update your data file...
Feb 17, 2017 | Articles, How-To
For the Mr Perfects and Professionals among us! We were recently working on a project of a customer and they sent in a Photoshop design of what they wanted to see on the information screens. That’s typical, most users send in a PowerPoint presentation already,...
Feb 3, 2017 | Articles, How-To
Introduction You can perfectly use Microsoft PowerPoint to create high quality digital signage presentations for your information displays. PowerPoint is great for displaying a clock, RSS news, weather forecasts, messages, announcements, advertising and many more on...
Jan 26, 2017 | How-To, iPoint
This is without a doubt a great question. Fortunately, we’ve come up with three comprehensive solutions that you can take to your advantage in order to make this happen. It’s a great way to use PowerPoint presentations on a television in a lot of different venues such...
Jan 4, 2017 | Attractions and Events, DataPoint, How-To, Scoreboards
The Super Bowl is thought by many to be the United States’ biggest sporting event. In this article, we will show you how to display the Super Bowl live score in PowerPoint. This can be used for: Digital Signage: Show the Super Bowl live score to patrons of your...
Dec 21, 2016 | Articles, How-To
PowerPoint is great for designing leaflets, posters and other forms of advertising. It is a great, powerful but easy tool to generate your documents and graphics. High-end software like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator is not needed. In this article, we will learn...
Dec 16, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
PowerPoint as Information Screen You are on the right track already when you display real-time data on a television or computer screen with Microsoft PowerPoint. Like a message board or information screen in your company, school or factory. DataPoint technology can be...
Dec 9, 2016 | Articles, How-To
Some people use PowerPoint for advertisements and information screens. Â Typically for those type of presentations, you need to create astonishing presentations with great visuals. Â For them, showing high-resolution quality images in PowerPoint are crucial! But, when...
Dec 2, 2016 | Attractions and Events, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Financial, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, How-To, Retail
Our software is often used as queue management software for banks, attractions and waiting rooms. You enter the waiting area of a building and pick your number and then wait until your number is displayed.  With the number that you got from the ticket dispenser, you...
Nov 25, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
With DataPoint you link your PowerPoint presentation to various databases and files. Some people set up many different connections in one presentation. But at a given day, you have to change some data. Maybe the username, the name of the file or the path to your data...
Nov 18, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
Sometimes you use DataPoint extensively. Not just where you assign a dynamic value from your database, but more like rules and formatting, replacement texts, ticker definitions etc. A lot of work on one text box only, while you maybe have many other similar text boxes...
Nov 11, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
The truth is that there are quite a lot of different tools that you can take advantage of in order to visually represent your idea in front of investors, business partners, managers, and whatnot. This is because of the vast improvement of the internet technologies and...
Oct 20, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To, Maps, Weather
Introduction In today’s blog article, we will show you how you can insert and link a picture of a web site into your PowerPoint slide. Often, we are asked to display weather maps or traffic maps on an information screen. Â We will show you the easy steps on how...
Aug 1, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, Marketing and Advertising
We have 2 possible scenarios for displaying a PowerPoint clock. This is a dedicated time add-on for using a PowerPoint clock to display the time or date in a presentation. This is very easy to use and can use a clock, calendar, count down, timer etc. If you need to...
Jul 4, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
We have 3 possible scenarios for displaying weather. This is a dedicated weather add-on for PowerPoint to display weather information in a presentation. This is very easy to use and it can show current weather information and forecasts. If you need to display the...
Jun 29, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
People who use PowerPoint for digital signage and dynamic information screens, often use external pictures on their slides. When you use our software to display live news on your slides, then you can add a featured image, next to the headline. Since the news articles...
Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
https://youtu.be/e8JGiYLzNPk KPI dashboards are becoming increasing important to companies and organizations because they let management see key performance indicators as to the health and processes at a glance. In this video/article, we will show you how to...
Jun 20, 2016 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, Dynamic elements, How-To
A timer in PowerPoint is often seen. Probably the most seen is a timer for a break in a presentation. But others use PowerPoint as an information screen and display real-time and dynamic information on it. You can use it for example on a school display system during...
Jun 6, 2016 | Attractions and Events, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Dynamic elements, Food & Beverage, How-To, Marketing and Advertising, Retail
It this article, we will show you how to promote your Facebook page using a powerful tool called Dynamic Likes. Dynamic Likes is a PowerPoint add-on that connects any PowerPoint to your Facebook Like statistics and updates it in real time. Dynamic Likes includes an...
May 23, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
There are some handy shortcuts in DataPoint to do things much quicker. Let us illustrate this with some sample data like addresses. We have our raw address information stored in Excel like this: Then we use DataPoint to set up a connection to that Excel and we will...
May 18, 2016 | Articles, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, How-To, Industrial/Manufacturing, Reporting
Our clients are extremely creative and come up with ways to use our products that often astonish us. So we thought we would share some case studies as to how our clients make real-life use of our software tools within their businesses or organization. Today, we are...
May 10, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
OData or Open Data Protocol, allows you to connect to RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way. Â Typically you will find an oData service with one or more resources with data. DataPoint allows you to connect to an oData service (and more). You can use DataPoint to...
Apr 19, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, Maps
Today we released a new version of our DataPoint product. Next to images, text boxes, charts, tables, … that you can link to dynamic information for real-time content, we have added something revolutionary; dynamic pointers on your slides. You can now display...
Apr 12, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
When you use our DataPoint technology to display real-time information on your PowerPoint slides, then you are displaying dynamic information from a data source. Typical for dynamic values, is that you have no real control over the minimum or maximum length of the...
Mar 3, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, How-To
Generate Presentations with the Task SchedulerDataPoint is the tool to update your slide content automatically. With this PowerPoint add-on, you can link your slides to  any data source for up-to-date presentations.  And PowerPoint is great for presenting information....
Feb 25, 2016 | Articles, How-To
The PowerPoint Format Painter We start with a new presentation or slide, with an acro gymnastics picture. I want to create a flyer for the new acro cup event. As you can see, next to the images, there are some two text boxes with some white text in it. Let’s...
Feb 18, 2016 | Articles, How-To
What is PlanPoint? This is a tool to schedule slides of a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Advantage is that you can leave your slideshow running without stopping the PowerPoint kiosk presentation. This is a free PowerPoint add-on that allows the user to set timings...
Feb 15, 2016 | How-To, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising
Digital Signage with PowerPoint Playlists Let’s dive into the world of digital signage with PowerPoint playlists and presentations. Earlier our topic was about setting up digital signage playlists with images and videos. Now, it is time to talk more about using...
Feb 10, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
What are Text Tickers? It probably started on television. Display text or graphical information on your television channel, on top of the broadcast. Often it is used as a text ticker for special events, interruptions, news messages and announcements. The advantage of...
Feb 1, 2016 | How-To
Everyone uses PowerPoint to create presentations. Even a child can create presentations. But there is something in our brains that keeps telling us to use CTRL + C and CTRL + V to duplicate PowerPoint shapes. We see this happening all the time. Someone wants to show...
Jan 25, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Today, you will learn a great trick for a PowerPoint presentation. You can make your PowerPoint presentations completely dynamic. Watch how you can connect a PowerPoint text box to a data source and use text boxes as dynamic text boxes on your slides. Set Up a Data...
Jan 12, 2016 | Articles, Attractions and Events, CounterPoint, Financial, Food & Beverage, How-To, Retail
We all know that this system is for waiting queues. You will see it at waiting areas, post offices, help desks, etc. When you enter the area, you will  take a number and you will wait till your number will be displayed on a LED display. This boring LED display is...
Jan 7, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Let’s build a data driven SQL presentation that get its information directly from a Microsoft SQL Server database. With DataPoint you can link your slides to a database and display real-time information on your slideshow or view the latest information on your...
Dec 22, 2015 | Articles, How-To
To help answer people’s questions about PowerPoint and digital signage, we put together a short, easy to follow: “How to use PowerPoint for Digital Signage” free online course. Some of the topics include: Why PowerPoint is great for digital signage...
Dec 21, 2015 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, How-To
What are Snapshot Presentations? A DataPoint-enabled presentation is a normal PowerPoint presentation that is linked to data sources via the DataPoint add-on. First you set up your data connections and then you start linking these data connections to text boxes,...
Dec 17, 2015 | Articles, Attractions and Events, CounterPoint, Financial, Food & Beverage, How-To, Retail
Dear Local business owner, Does Your Current Queue Management System Cost Too Much and Provide Too Little? Do you want to display much more than 2 digits to your waiting customers? Are you looking for a Professional Queue Management Solution that your business...
Dec 7, 2015 | Articles, Dynamic elements, Food & Beverage, How-To, Marketing and Advertising, Retail
Hello. Are you a business manager scouring the web looking for companies that offer Multi-view / Multiple Monitor systems and you keep seeing the same thing over and over? Well, we are glad you landed on our page and are fairly confident this will be the last place...
Dec 3, 2015 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Food & Beverage, How-To
Can you imagine a pub without a television? Yes, all the pubs have a television to show sports and news etc. But pubs also start using televisions or computer screens to show information about their own pub. Why not? There is so many things to say on an electronic...
Nov 26, 2015 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
In some conditions, a PowerPoint slideshow that is set up as a kiosk slideshow, and thus intended to run continuously without user interactions, might freeze on a given slide. After running normal for hours or even days, sometimes the slideshow freezes, apparently...
Nov 16, 2015 | Articles, How-To
Last week, I checked in at a nice hotel. Close to the reception desk, there was a big television screen mounted to the wall. It played an hotel promotion video showing the rooms, facilities, restaurants etc. A wide-screen or typical 16:9 movie on a typical television...
Nov 10, 2015 | Articles, How-To
Microsoft learns you that, by default, the pointer or cursor in a slideshow, hides automatically after three seconds of inactivity. The pointer reappears when you move the mouse. There are scenarios possible where the pointer is not hidden automatically when using...
Oct 26, 2015 | How-To, iPoint
In this article we will show you how you can create a playlist with images and schedule the playlist for playback on remote computers. Why would you use images for digital signage? As explained in our article about the digital signage components of iPoint, we use the...