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Share a PowerPoint story, win a custom MacBook Pro

PowerPoint stories are like belly buttons: everybody's got one, but some are more interesting than others. The team at Microsoft's Mac BU wants to hear your exciting, engaging and unique PPT adventures, and they're willing to reward you: the best story might win a major prize.

Unlike the "forward this email, Bill Gates will send you money" chain emails that never seem to die, Microsoft's contest is legit. There are a couple of custom-colored MacBook Pros in the pot, delivered to winners selected from those who participate by commenting on the Mac Mojo blog or responding to questions tweeted by the @officeformac account. The computers will be loaded up with Office 2008, and winners will also receive a copy of Office 2011 when it ships.

Full details and rules are downloadable (as a PDF, interestingly enough -- remember, Apple's TextEdit can also open Word's .doc format) and the Mac BU will be posting updates on Twitter and on the Mac Mojo blog.

Good luck!

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FEMME93

I don't PowerPoint. I will however, if I win the Mac .
I Promise.

July 23 2010 at 12:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hendrix101

West

Thanks.

July 23 2010 at 11:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Julian

Hi,

I can't share a ppt story, but I can recommend FPPT ( http://www.free-power-point-templates.com/ ) it is a site where you can download free powerpoint templates. It may be helpful for you.

July 23 2010 at 10:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Metronome49

This isn't best story wins... This is, randomly pick someone from the comments in over 3 different posts, and twitter. You should change that.

#corrections

July 23 2010 at 9:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rahul

I remember when I had to give a presentation - fired up PPT and had my own custom templates along with my keyboard shortcuts and my laptop remote which dwelled everyone's eyes in tears. People were surprised to find what PPT can truly do and how much of a useful thing it is once you truly know how to use it. The presentation was on Autism Awareness which basically involved implementing Animal assisted therapy to better cure autism. I'm sure I still have it somewhere... oh did I mention I put videos of live blind dogs helping autistic children out? Ya - I made a killer PPT and I succeed at it too.

July 23 2010 at 2:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
loup407

MC, and you are surprised by this? :-)

July 23 2010 at 12:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

Um, if you read the Microsoft page, it doesn't say MacBook Pro. It says MacBook. Those are plastic cases, not aluminum.

July 22 2010 at 8:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Mike

BUT the rules say MacBook Pro. Microsoft needs to get their crap together. They don't know what they're talking about.

July 22 2010 at 8:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joel Bruner

Yeah great story - A Mac makes a PPT with Quicktime movies, then they are opened on a PC and none of them work because Powerpoint isn't using Quicktime for video, even though it could, it's using its own windows video engine -- come to find out use only WMV or MPEG1 if you want to be cross platform compatible... total M$ BS.

July 22 2010 at 6:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
loup407

Keynote and Keynote Remote draws my audience's attention over and over. I stopped using PPT (and Word/Excel) a couple of years ago. All my clients have never noticed.
Powerpoint is for suckers; I doubt the MAC BU wants to hear that.

Now..if only I could move a Keynote deck to my iPad without losing the video...I'd be SO stoked!

July 22 2010 at 6:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Raj

I sure hope that colored shell or whatever is removable... why mess up a near-perfect design?

July 22 2010 at 6:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Mike

It's Microsoft. Name one thing they've ever designed well. They know nothing of design. And I'd imagine you could take it into an Apple Store and ask if you could just buy a new body for it. They might let you, IDK.

July 22 2010 at 8:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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