Excel and PowerPoint
are The God's gifts to mankind.
However, PowerPoint often gets transformed in to a toxic weapon for mass production of transient zombies
out of energetic corporate citizens. The paradox is , the chief ‘Execution’ officer
aka the presenter is unaware of the weapon’s destructive persona and its
outcomes despite his/her noble intentions.
Well, there are ways
to make your ‘Power’ Points minimally lethal and positively effective.
We all know that 'content
is the king' .Apart from that, a wise use of pictures and clip art can enhance
the value of the content.
That’s where ShapeChef
from Wolsoft comes handy.
Shape chef is a
PowerPoint add-in for 2007,2010 and 2013
versions.
This chef is an expert
in garnishing your presentations and can spice up your content with Pics and can make visual splendors
out of PowerPoints suffering from Acute Textitis. (Inflammation due to
profusion of text)
Wolsoft introduces
an awesome add-in , ShapeChef that can be handy in collecting, organizing, sharing and
choosing the right clip art for your message.
With ShapeChef at your
disposal,
- You
can download hundreds of clip arts, shapes, editable maps, stick figures with
emotions, icons, symbols and many other and use them in
your presentations.( well, more and more are in store for you with newer versions of Shapechef)
- All
the clipart available with ShapeChef are sketched ones. These hand sketched clip-art can add a dash of beauty of their own.
- You
can organize clip-arts in to categories and sub categories for easy access.
- You
can create your own clip-art using the shapes and store and share them.
- The
best part is the Maps ! and, these are editable !
- You
can also share your collections-online in the cloud. So, you have anytime any
where access to your clips.
- You can invite others and others can invite you
too… that means, you have access to many more creations from others too J
- Using ShapeChef is
easy.
- Download
the trial version. Here.
- I
recommend that you download the trial version, check its awesomeness,get
satisfied and then buy it. I usually do
not recommend any software to be bought . But, ShapeChef is one exception :-)
When
installed, it gets loaded in to PowerPoint as an Add-in and shows up as a menu
in your PowerPoint menu ribbon.
- You
need to download the Cliparts once and they reside on your computer.
- Drag
and drop them on to your slide.
- Increase
/ decrease their size as per your need
- Cook visual spenders with your PowerPoints using ShapeChef.
