ScienceSlides 2008 - The 9th Edition
March 21st, 2008
Continuing on our tradition of two updates a year, ScienceSlides opened its 5th year with the release of 9th 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 further important improvements that we hope will be appreciated by our users. First and foremost, the content has been expanded and updated. New category Hypertension has been added to Molecular Pathology. Apoptosis has been completely updated in Signaling, Obesity and Diabetes in Molecular Pathology and Medicinal Chemistry in Pharmacology. In addition, numerous new drug mechanisms have been added to Pharmacology. All new and updated slides now incorporate references and, if connected to the Internet, individual abstracts may be instantly viewed for source information directly from PowerPoint.
Fig. 52. The new ScienceSlides 2008 interface in PowerPoint 2003/2007 for windows.
New ScienceSlides interface. The main ScienceSlides toolbar shows ScienceSlides information button, Search query button and Browse Slides buttons, as in ScienceSlides 2007. All ScienceSlides categories may be browsed from the ScienceSlides dialog box. The new ScienceSlides 2007 interface in PowerPoint 2003/2007 (Windows, Fig 52) is very similar to the interface in PowerPoint 2004/2008 for Mac (Fig. 53).
Fig. 53. The new ScienceSlides 2007 interface in PowerPoint 2004/2008 for Mac OS X.
In addition, the directory window in ScienceSlides 2008 dialog box has two modes: text and thumbnail. The thumbnail mode may allow for faster selecting the desired slides for inserting into your presentation (Fig. 54).
Fig. 54. Thumbnail view in directory window of ScienceSlides 2008 dialog box.
Compatibility with Microsoft Office 2008 for OS X. Microsoft has introduced several major changes that govern how the add-ins like ScienceSlides work with PowerPoint. As a result, the ScienceSlides 2008 Mac users have to insert selected slides from ScienceSlides menu into new PowerPoint presentation, in contrast to PowerPoint 2004 where insertions were made into the existing presentation. This change requires one additional step of merging new and existing PowerPoint presentations in the new PowerPoint 2008 for Mac.
I hope you enjoy version 2008.
Sincerely,
Jozef Spychala, PhD
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