ScienceSlides 2007 - The 7th Edition
March 26th, 2007
ScienceSlides opened its 4th year with the release of 7th edition! We have been able to build on the popularity of this program and further enhance the content and functionality of ScienceSlides. This new version incorporates several important improvements that we hope will be appreciated by our users. First and foremost, the content has been further expanded and updated and now includes cell-specific signaling, vesicle transport and microRNA sections in Signaling category. Several Signaling sub-categories, such as Cytokine and GPCR Signaling, as well as many other sub-categories in Biochemistry, Biology, CommonShapes have been updated too. More than 200 new compounds, including many new drugs under clinical development, have been added to Pharmacology category. All new and updated slides now incorporate references and, if connected to the Internet, individual abstracts may be instantly viewed for source information.
New ScienceSlides interface. The main ScienceSlides toolbar now houses only ScienceSlides information button, Search query button and Browse Slides button. The categories of ScienceSlides have been moved from PowerPoint bar to ScienceSlides dialog box that opens when you click Browse Slides button. This change allowed freeing some space in PowerPoint, which may be valuable for users with small monitors. All ScienceSlides categories may now be browsed from the ScienceSlides dialog box. Following suggestions from ScienceSlides users we also incorporated the functionality of inserting multiple slides without the need to re-open ScienceSlides dialog box. The new ScienceSlides 2007 interface in PowerPoint 2003 (Windows) is shown in Fig. 49 and in PowerPoint 2004 (Mac OS X) is shown in Fig. 50.
Fig. 49. The new ScienceSlides 2007 interface as seen in PowerPoint 2003 for windows.
Fig. 50. The new ScienceSlides 2007 interface in PowerPoint 2004 for Mac OS X.
Compatibility with Microsoft Office 2007. Microsoft has introduced some interesting changes in PowerPoint 2007 for windows interface that are beneficial for ScienceSlides 2007 users. The ScienceSlides 2007 bar is now hidden and the user, after installation, has to click on Add-Ins button in top PowerPoint 2007 bar to access it. The PowerPoint appearance changes and now shows all add-ins, including ScienceSlides, in a separate toolbar (Figure 51). This change may be very convenient for users who use ScienceSlides occasionally and do not want it to clutter the screen all the time. From there on everything else is the same as in PowerPoint 2003.
Fig. 51. The new ScienceSlides 2007 interface in PowerPoint 2007 for windows.
I hope you enjoy version 2007.
Sincerely,
Jozef Spychala, PhD
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