PowerPoint Search
The power of desktop search programs such as those by Google, Apple and Microsoft are impressive. I am a very organized person with a folder structure that usually allows me to find what I am looking for quickly. Yet, I have found myself gradually moving away from the depth of my folder organization structure to using the desktop search to pull up the same files. However, the major gap is non-text content such as images and video files that remain challenging to find over time. Yes, you can spend your life adding enough meta data to your image and video files to allow for better searching later, but I think it would be easier if an application allowed me to quickly scan available images or videos. One specific application I have for this tool is to be able to scan all the PowerPoint slides I have on my machine. Often, when I am putting together a PowerPoint presentation, I have an old design in mind. It could be an old deck that had a similar message or maybe just one slide that had graphics or a layout similar to what I intend to make. I’d like to see this capability today as I need to find the slide that has a pyramid representing different layers of an organization. :-)
on April 21, 2006 | Comments (3)
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Today I was watching the keynote speech on Leopard and was very excited about the new Quick Look, which is the answer to this request.
Posted by: Darin Archer | June 24, 2007 11:51 AM
For those using Windows we developed slideboxx to provide simple PowerPoint slide search and presentation assembly.
You can find more information at http://www.slideboxx.com.
Posted by: Charles Wolfus | July 31, 2008 06:54 AM
Posted by: Darin Archer | July 27, 2009 07:36 PM