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ScriptAssist takes speaker notes already sitting in your PowerPoint file and builds a full presenting toolkit around them: a script you can read while looking at your camera, a review workflow that your legal, medical, or other teams can actually use, and an AI assist for when you’re staring at a blank slide. It comes from SlideSource, a team that has spent decades preparing presentations for high-stakes settings, and it goes after a problem most presenters know well: staying on script without losing eye contact.
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This tutorial walks you through creating Gantt charts in PowerPoint using Ampler or Ampler Charts. Native PowerPoint has never included a dedicated Gantt chart option, which means most users rely on makeshift workarounds. Ampler changes that with purpose-built Gantt functionality that covers everything from basic timelines to milestones, dependencies, Excel linking, and brand-consistent formatting.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Ampler, Charts, Gantt Chart, Geetesh Bajaj, Sune Høj Kodahl
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Ampler Charts steps into a familiar battlefield—the world of constantly changing business presentations, where charts are updated, re‑aligned, and re‑built right until the final meeting. Whether it’s a Gantt chart that refuses to stay in sync or a waterfall chart that collapses with every new number, presentation professionals have long needed a faster, more reliable way to build and revise complex visuals. This review explores how Ampler Charts addresses that challenge by bringing structured, PowerPoint‑native chart creation to users who value clarity, speed, and effortless editability.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Ampler, Charts, Review
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officeatwork brings a fresh, structured way for organizations to create brand‑consistent documents in Microsoft 365, helping teams stay visually aligned and professionally polished. Designed to support organizations of all sizes, officeatwork streamlines communication, supports team collaboration, and helps maintain brand compliance at scale.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Branding, Morten Hald Mortensen, officeatwork, Omnidocs, PowerPoint
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From PresenterMedia, you can add specialized, pre-designed slide layouts found within their AI Presentation Maker and Presentation Builder tools. They are designed to solve the “blank slide” problem by providing professional compositions that automatically integrate graphics and AI-generated text. However, you do not have to start by using any of these tools, and can get started with a simple clipart search, and evolve further from there onwards.
PresenterMedia is a creative design company based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that specializes in high-end, customizable presentation resources.
They are widely known for their massive library of animated PowerPoint templates, 3D clipart, and video backgrounds. Rather than just offering static slides, their focus is on “bringing presentations to life” through motion and 3D depth.
My contact at PresenterMedia for this feature was Judd Albrecht. Thank you, Judd.
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Tagged as: Art Holden, Color, Judd Albrecht, PowerPoint, Presenter Media
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