These short video guides are primarily intended for end users in companies and organizations. Watching these will save you a lot of time if you're doing:

• Presentations
• Training sessions
• Sales
• Anything where you do company presentations

If you have not yet installed xPoint, follow the instructions here: HOWTO install

Browsing the library and adding slides, 55 seconds	Search for slides and add them to your current presentation, 1 minute 41 seconds
xPoint makes it possible to browse your company slide library from PowerPoint and add slides to your current presentation. Features shown: Browsing the library in PowerPoint Previewing a library presentation (double-click the presentation) Adding selected slides to your current presentation Applying the corporate template	You will search 1000's of slides in a second with Slide Executive xPoint finding you relevant slides if there are any. The whole company knowledge bank of slides is at your fingertips from PowerPoint. Type in your search directly in the ribbon! Features shown: Search - from the ribbon Search from the search pane Compound search Advanced search - example of searching just the title of slides
Applying the corporate template to your presentation, 1 minute 14 seconds	Setting up the search to only search your Company slide library, 57 seconds
Have you ever wondered where your corporate presentation is? Or which is the latest version of it? This is why we've introduced the Corporate Tempate button in xPoint. Applying the right template is now only one click away! Features shown: Applying the corporate template to your original presentation Search & add of additional slides and applying the corporate template afterwards	By default xPoint searches 4 sources for slides and images: Your computer, your company online library, the internet and internet images. If you are part of a company you can turn everything but the company library off by default. Features shown: Setting up the search filter to search only the Company slide library Search & add of additional slides and applying the corporate template afterwards
Sharing a presentation from xPoint, 1 minute 20 seconds	Preview a presentation and add slides to your current presentation, 1 minute 6 seconds
At any time when working in PowerPoint with a presentation, you can choose to upload it to the slide library to share your work with others. Features shown: Uploading your current presentation to the Company slide library Preview of the uploaded presentation	Before deciding if you want to add slides from a presentation you can preview the slides, right in PowerPoint, and choose which ones you want to add. Just double-click on the presentation to see the slides. Features shown: Double click to preview & add Right-click to preview through the context menu Right-click to add all slides through the context menu
Searching for images on the web, 54 seconds	Connecting to your company slide library from xPoint, 2 minutes 40 seconds
xPoint allows you to search for images on the Internet from within PowerPoint. Just drag and drop the images you find to your slide. Features shown: Choosing to search for web images only Adding images to your slide by drag and drop	You should be set to go if your administrator has given you your: Server link/URL User name Password

New features in Slide Executive xPoint v4.01

On Demand/Professional section

-       NEW! Upload to online library from xPoint/PowerPoint – You can now upload presentations from xPoint/PowerPoint to Slide Executive Professional/On Demand. Sharing your current presentation with the rest of the company is now a one click action from within PowerPoint. After upload your presentation is directly made part of the general slide library allowing others in the company (having read permission for your uploaded content) to reuse your slides by browsing for them or finding them when searching.

-       NEW! Edit online library presentation from xPoint/PowerPoint – This may be the final step in the transition to work completely from PowerPoint offering an ultimate user experience in speed and usability. xPoint will automatically activate the online library edit function when Slide Executive Professional 3.5 is released.

 

General

-       Performance upgrades – Optimizations have been made to increase the speed of xPoint.

-       Minor bug fixes and ajustments– The general experience is now even better.

 

  Install xPoint?  Follow this link: http://bit.ly/HOWTO-Install-Slide-Executive-xPoint        
xPoint video guides: http://www.slideexecutive.com/Blog/post/xPoint-Quick-Start-End-users.aspx     

Previous releases

New features in Slide Executive xPoint v3.8

-       NEW! Super Search – Super Search searches all your available sources of slides and images in one search. This means you’ll find the best slide/image available from your computer, your company or the internet. It is also possible to set filters to choose to search only some of the sources.

-       Tooltip content copy and select support – It is now possible to copy the slide text shown in the tooltip over each slide in any search result.

-       Cleaner ribbon – The search buttons/forms for local, company and internet search are now concluded in one section, the Super Search.

-       More french translations added

-       NEW! Corporate template button – On Demand users can now, by one-click, apply the company default template set by content managers/administrators. If the company default setting is de-selected the button will be inactive.

-       IntelliSlide preview of master presentation - IntelliSlide now supports preview of master presentations from local and company presentations.

New features in Slide Executive xPoint v3.7

General
- Color themes added to ribbon and controls – To improve the look and feel the color themes now show in the slide and the file tree views too.

 - More information in thumbnail tooltip – The tooltip now shows the source and source path of the slides in search results and for IntelliSlide.
- Various bug fixes – a small number of bug fixes for stability, language handling and more have been included in this release.  

 

IntelliSlide
- Adding of slides to current presentation – Slides can now be added directly from the proposed slides pane.
- Tooltip shows source – the source of each slide now shows in the tooltip (desktop, web or slidefinder).

- Source marker in slide pane – to easily see the source of, each slide even before the tooltip, an icon is shown in the corner of each slide.

 

Earlier xPoint releases…

The installed system version of Slide Executive Professional, version 3.4 is now released. The main news of this release are:

• Improved import engine
• Improved slide type handling
• NEW! Support for connecting with the Slide Executive xPoint addin. Find install instructions here: xPoint Install HOWTO
• Improved comments handling
• Improved alarm notification system
• Bug fixes

 

Installing the add-in will allow you to search, browse your local presentations for slides from within PowerPoint. It will also provide image search and add, both from your computer and from the internet.

To start using the Slide Executive Desktop Add-in follow these steps:

1. You need to have PowerPoint 2007 or 2010 (32-bit versions) for Microsoft® Windows® installed on your computer. 64-bit PowerPoint versions, earlier versions of PowerPoint, and PowerPoint for Mac, are not supported.
2. You will need to have a machine with Microsoft® Windows 7®, Vista® or Windows XP® with Service Pack 2 or greater.
3. Make sure PowerPoint is not running.
4. Open this link from Internet Explorer and follow the installation instructions:
   http://tools.slideexecutive.com/xpoint/setup.exe    NOTE: In this step the install wizard may ask you to upgrade your windows components to .NET Framework 4. This is a prerequisite that is needed for the add-in to work. 
5. After the installation is done you may need to restart PowerPoint to make the Slide Executive-tab appear in PowerPoint 2007/2010.
6. Once installed look for the "Slide Executive" tab and click on it.
7. The first run of the add in:
   1. If this is the first time you run the Slide Executive add-in you will see a "Get me started"-button in the "Desktop" section. Click "Get me started" to start the wizard and follow the instructions. This will allow you to browse and search your Slide Executive slide library.
   2. If you upgraded from a previous version of the add-in you should be set to go right away. Be sure to use the left "Desktop" section of the ribbon for browsing and searching your local library. The "Professional /On Demand" section in the middle is a separate product to search a central online library for slides and other media. If your company has an On Demand account, with an online slide library, the middle section could be used too.
8. Getting started video:
   

Afterwords be sure to enter the Options->Desktop(tab)->General view and choose the Image tab to ensure that all the image types will be included in your local xPoint search.

See a general overview of the Slide Executive xPoint ribbon here:

Find more movies about Slide Executive xPoint on our YouTube-channel:
http://www.youtube.com/slideexecutive

Novatrox is proud to present the first beta release of IntelliSlide^(TM). IntelliSlide is released as part of Slide Executive xPoint v3.5.

The purpose of IntelliSlide is to provide the user with suggested slides, similar to what the user is currently creating. As the user starts typing words on his new slide, the IntelliSlide engine will automatically present similar slides to the user based on the available slide libraries.

The IntelliSlide^(TM) engine will show slides not only from the local and the company slide library, if available,  but also slides from the internet. If someone has made a good, usable slide before, there won’t be a way of missing it; potentially saving users time by avoiding the re-making of slides.

In this first version slides are presented visually to the user.

How to get IntelliSlide?

Download Slide Executive xPoint from the download page or use the direkt link.

We're happy to announce the launch of the Slide Executive Youtube channel! At

Visit our channel to watch HOWTO videos about Slide Executive xPoint. For example this introduction video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RAl6bAnPaY

Will this help me get the most out of Slide Executive xPoint if I am a single user? Absolutely

I'm at a company, can my end users use these videos as tutorials? That is the whole point, to save you time and maximize the usage impact

Will this help me find slides on my computer? Most definitely

And, more to come in the future! We will be adding new videos regularly – so make sure you subscribe to the channel so you never miss a new video.

www.youtube.com/Slideexecutive

Installing the add-in will allow you to browse your central slide library and search and add slides from within PowerPoint. Free web image and slide search is also included. Most of the time you won't need to go through the web-interface.

To start using the Slide Executive Add-in follow these steps:

1. You need to have PowerPoint 2007 or 2010 (32-bit versions) for Microsoft® Windows® installed on your computer. 64-bit PowerPoint versions, earlier versions of PowerPoint, and PowerPoint for Mac, are not supported.
2. You will need to have a machine with Microsoft® Windows 7®, Vista® or Windows XP® with Service Pack 2 or greater.
3. Make sure PowerPoint is not running.
4. Open this link from Internet Explorer and follow the installation instructions:
   http://tools.slideexecutive.com/xpoint/setup.exe    NOTE: In this step the install wizard may ask you to upgrade your windows components to .NET Framework 4. This is a prerequisite that is needed for the add-in to work. 
5. After the installation is done you may need to restart PowerPoint to make the Slide Executive-tab appear in PowerPoint 2007/2010.
6. Once installed look for the "Slide Executive xPoint" tab and click on it.
7. The first run of the add in:
   1. If this is the first time you run the Slide Executive add-in you will see a "Get me started"-button in the "Professional / On Demand" section. Click "Get me started" to start the wizard and follow the instructions. You will be asked to 1. add your Slide Executive URL and 2. your credentials. This will allow you to browse and search your Slide Executive slide library. You may also watch this video:
      
   2. If you upgraded from a previous version of the add-in you should be set to go right away. Be sure to use the middle "Professional / On Demand" section for browsing and searching your central library. The "Desktop" section to the left is a separate product to search your own computer for slides and other media.

See a general overview of the Slide Executive xPoint ribbon here:

Find more movies about Slide Executive xPoint on our YouTube-channel:
http://www.youtube.com/slideexecutive

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – February 17, 2011 – Software producer Novatrox AB releases a new PowerPoint add-in ribbon, Slide Executive xPoint, that searches and inserts slides and images from your computer, company cloud and the web into your PowerPoint presentation.

 

Slide Executive xPoint will save lots of time for any organization or individual with many PowerPoint presentations. It installs as a ribbon in PowerPoint and provides access to a local and/or a central slide library in the cloud. For single users xPoint provides desktop slide search and slide managing tools. Company users can easily search and browse their company slides/presentations increasing the use of pre-approved slides to bring consistency to the company presentations. Furthermore, xPoint includes free search and insert of slides and images from the Internet.

Slide Executive xPoint is a junction of tools, a cross point. It combines desktop slide/media search and management for the single user, with the power of the Slide Executive On Demand slide and media library solution for companies. In addition to the mentioned features, xPoint enables web image search and web slide search through SlideFinder. xPoint thus gives the user complete control and the ability to search existing content from a range of different sources when building new presentation, hence avoiding re-inventing the wheel.

Christer Ogenstad, the Chairman of Novatrox AB, shares his vision of this latest innovation: "Slide Executive xPoint brings information management to PowerPoint. From now on no one should have to waste time redoing any work. Whether you know you have a good slide on your computer, want to find one somewhere in your company cloud or even on the Internet, you'll find it in the blink of an eye. Before you know it, you'll have added it to the presentation you are building."

 

Slide Executive xPoint is very light and can be quickly downloaded and installed by following the instructions here:

http://bit.ly/HOWTO-Install-Slide-Executive-xPoint

 

Watch a video clip here: Slide Executive xPoint video  

Find more information about Slide Executive xPoint on www.slideexecutive.com/xpoint

 

About Slide Executive On Demand and Professional

Slide Executive enables organizations to store their presentation content in a single slide library, making it available to business professionals and decision-makers throughout the enterprise through any web browser/PowerPoint Slide Executive xPoint add-in, anywhere in the world. Slide Executive provides advanced slide search functionality, easy assembly of new presentations with approved content, virtual presentations automatically updating to the latest version of each slide and advanced user management functions including full audit trail.

 

 

About Novatrox AB

Novatrox AB offers software solutions both as a software producer and as consulting services. The company is specialized in advanced web system development based on .NET. Novatrox was founded in 2000. Find more information at the Novatrox AB website www.novatrox.com

 

Press information:

Novatrox AB Media Relations

E-mail: press@novatrox.com

Phone: +46 8 5016 4079

Cell: +46 70 413 70 06

 

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