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MARCH :1.989 VOLUME 5, NUMBER 5 • CONTENTS • News and Announcements News and Announcements Apple Rebates, If You Hurry ........ 61 e APPLE REBATEs, IF You HuRRY Mac Inter-Poll Update to 1.0.1 .... 70 Apple is offering rebates on some Apple peripherals to customers PC LAN Program 1.31 Upgrade .... 70 who purchase a qualifying Macintosh configuration at the same Zenith TurbosPort 386 ................ 70 time as they purchase the peripherals. The size of the rebate de SUN Equipment for Sale ............. 70 pends on which Mac you purchase and on the suggested retail price of the peripherals. The rebate allowance is up to 50 percent Reviews and Services of the peripheral's suggested list price. DeskTop Presentation Software: To take advantage of the rebate offer described below, your rebate PowerPoint, Cricket Presents .. 62 form must be postmarked no later than Apri/15, 1989. To Office Equipment Services .......... 65 qualify, all orders must be placed between February 11, 1989 and Columns March 31, 1989. To receive the rebate, the customer must pur Connections chase Apple peripheral(s) from the same authorized Apple reseller Using IBMs- Macs Together ... 65 on the same day as the basic qualifying system purchase. The pur Book Center Notes chases must be included on the same invoice. In addition to a Mac Memory ......................... 71 qualifying Macintosh CPU, a qualifying system must include an Mathematica ......................... 71 Apple manufactured monitor, video card, and keyboard. Epson Specials ..................... 71 And Books, Too .......................... 71 The rebate allowances for qualifying Macintosh CPU configura Spring Quarter 1989 Short Courses tions and peripherals are listed in sections A and B below. Registration .......................... 72 Descriptions .......................... 72 Schedule .............................. 7 4 ________Table A ________ Part No. Qualifying CPU The Microcomputer Newsletter is pubfished monthly by Rebate the Microcomputer and Workstation Systems Group System Configurations Allowance (alk/a Microcomputer Group), a part of the University of Minnesota's Academic Computing Services and M5900 .......... Mac SE (two BOOK floppy drives) ............ $ 150 Systems department (ACSS), wHh funds provided by M5910 .......... Mac SE HD20 (20MB hard disk) ................ 200 the Minnesota Book Center. This newsletter does not M5355 .......... Mac SE HD40 (40MB hard disk) ................ 250 represent any manufacturer, distributor, or retail outlet and cannot be responsible for any error or change in M5333 .......... Mac II (one BOOK floppy drive) ................ $ 300 price, description, or availabifity wHh respect to any M5430 .......... Mac II HD40 (40MB hard disk) .................. BOO product or service. The University of Minnesota is M5410 .......... Mac II HD40 4MB ..................................... 600 committed to the policy that all persons should have (40MB hard disk and 4MB RAM) equal access to Hs programs, faci!Hies, and employ ment wHhout regard to race, religion, color, sex, M5820 .......... Mac llx ................................................. $ 500 national origin, handicap, age, veteran status, or (4MB RAM, one 1.4MB floppy) sexual orientation. Direct comments and subscription M5830 .......... Mac llx HOBO ........................................... 500 cancellations, changes, and addHions to the edHors at (4MB RAM, BOMB hard disk) the address on the closing page. This newsletter is an information resource for the University of Minnesota; subscrptions are free but are mailed only wHhin U.S. ( ... NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTINUED ON PAGE 68 e 1989 University of Minnesota Desktop Presentation CREATING A PRESENTATION Using PowerPoint or Cricket Presents to develop a presen Software tation is easy. Both packages have an extensive selection of templates that you can use in your own presentations. If • Consider the following scenario: You are giving you decide to use one of the templates, you enter your a presentation to a funds chairperson and your col own information and use the borders and layout already set ues. Halfway through the lecture you notice that up in the template. You can use either PowerPoint or audience is dozing off. You desperately try to Cricket Presents to design a master slide whose layout is think of something that would get their attention back. carried over to each slide in the series. This feature is simi lar to the Background feature used in HyperCard stacks. This situation might have been avoided with the use of well designed visuals. Whether they are slides, overheads, You can use both packages to create your own speaker or flipcharts, the use of visual aids in a presentation serve notes as you create your slides. When you print out the several purposes. First, visual aids help to emphasize key note pages, a miniature version of the slide appears at the points in the presentation; second, they provide visual top of the page and all of the related notes appear below. stimulation for the audience; and third, they help vary the You can use both packages to create audience handouts pace. Overall, visual aids can make a presentation more that include a miniature of the slide and the key points. interesting to the audience. Creating slides, notes, and handouts from one software package can save you a lot of preparation time. This article will introduce and compare two Macintosh ap plications designed for creating presentations: PowerPoint One of the best features of these packages is their built-in (version 2.0) from Microsoft and Cricket Presents (version spelling checkers. It is very tacky to give an important 2.0) by Cricket Software. presentation and have misspelled words on your overheads. When you use a spelling checker to find misspelled words, OVERVIEW you can type in the correct spelling yourself or have the You can use both PowerPoint and Cricket Presents to plan dictionary suggest alternatives. As in Microsoft Word, and create professional looking presentations. PowerPoint PowerPoint and Cricket Presents let you create your own calls each screen that you create a Slide. Cricket Presents, user dictionary. on the other hand, uses the term Frame. For consistency, we will use the term slide when referring to the individual Figure l is an example of a slide that was created in Cricket screen layouts in each package. With PowerPoint and Presents. Everything, including the graph, was created Cricket Presents you can create slides that can be output from within the package. You can use the Cricket Presents for use with flipcharts, overhead projec- tors, or 35mm slide projectors. Figure 1: A Cricket Presents Slide You can also use your Macintosh to show a series of slides. To do this with Cricket It File Edit Uiew Rrrange Type Goodies Window Presents you use software called Video i Tools i Show; when using PowerPoint you run 0 D software called Slide Show. This feature is ···················-·····································-·····························································································.. ~ ABC useful if you are making a presentation to ......... I I a small group ( 3-4 people) or if you are """"'\ using a screen projection device (such as 0 D l Univ~ie!~¥.-s~~~~~~~~sota I MacView) attached to your Macintosh. 0 0 You can control the advancement of each 0 L7 slide manually with a mouse click or have a. ')() -r--------------, the presentation run automatically. lfil .• r:::::J• E3 . - Both PowerPoint and Cricket Presents i ; - ' require a Macintosh Plus, SE, or II with ~: I at least one megabyte of RAM. Power Point will work with System 4.1 or later and requires either two 800K disk drives L- -- _:_ _I or a hard disk. Cricket Presents requires =-=-~--~ ___ System 4.2 or later and a hard disk. Both packages fully utilize the color capabilities of the Macintosh II. i i graphing tool to create scatter, line, area, pie, colwnn, services, the slide returns with the colors you requested. ! stacked column, bar, and stacked bar charts. To create the The cost per slide ranges from $12-15. You can also use graph you select the Graph icon from the Tools pallet and these services to create color overheads and flipcharts (we then click on the slide where you want the graph to be po have not tried either service). I sitioned. Cricket Presents then displays a dialog box where you select the type of graph. This same box has three but DIFFERENCES tons on it: one for entering the data, one for entering the Up to this point we have concentrated on the similarities I graph labels, and one for entering the type of symbols or between the two packages. Now we will concentrate on patterns to be used in the graph. You can also specify if I the features that make each package unique. you want horizontal and/or vertical grid lines, depth, or legends on the graph; for our graph we chose depth. When you use the graph tool to enter data, you are limited POWERPOINT HIGHLIGHTS l PowerPoint comes with a Help feature that is actually a to five colwnns by twenty-five rows of data. If you have more data points than this, you must use some other pack series of slides organized by title. You access the Help age, such as Cricket Graph, to create the chart. slides from the ti menu and double-click on the topic you want help on. In addition to giving you basic information, We created the same slide using PowerPoint, as shown in the slide tells you what pages in the User's Manual to refer Figure 2. Since PowerPoint won't let you enter data and to for more information. create graphs right in the package, we used a separate pack age (Cricket Graph) to create the graph; and then we PowerPoint has a Find and Replace option. This feature pasted the graph onto the slide. works the same way as it does in Microsoft Word. You specify the word you are searching for as well as the re placement word. This feature can be very useful if you dis CREATING 35MM SLIDES cover that you have consistently used an obsolete term to If you need to create 35mm color slides for your presenta describe something throughout your presentation.