If memory serves, it used to take a fraction of my day at work to pull together the slide shows for our Erev Shabbat and Shabbat services. However, since deciding last week (due to difficulty getting an old version of Corel Presentations 10 to install under Windows Vista with Service Pack 1) to move the show over to PowerPoint, it’s been taking a bit longer.
That’s not because PowerPoint is a harder program to use, by the way; it has to do with file conversion. Fortunately, I was able to get all our service and song files saved in Corel Presentations as PowerPoint 95 documents, saved to a flash drive, and loaded up into Microsoft PowerPoint 2003.
Trouble is, pretty much everything needed to be tidied up and redone to get the shows and songs looking good in PowerPoint. Nearly all the text boxes came over too big and with fonts set too large.
It’s been a bit of a labor to tweak everything, but I get the two services completed just in time last week, and this week I’ve been able to work on going through the songs and trying to get them redesigned so that we can get back to the whole process being quick and easy.
It’s been worth all the labor, however; our slide shows are now more future-proof than before, and personally I prefer PowerPoint.
Tags: Corel Presentations, memory, PowerPoint