Extracting media files from a PowerPoint presentation with PowerShell

Ever needed to extract all the media files (images, video etc.) from a PowerPoint presentation? Copy/paste does it, but getting the stuff into separate files is a chore. Unless you speak fluent PowerShell, that is. The following script defines a function that takes a full path (including the directory) to the PowerPoint file. It then […]

April 5, 2010 · Jouni Heikniemi · 8 Comments
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Too early to talk about Office 2010 “missing the online boat”

In his VentureBeat column, the SlideRocket CEO Chuck Dietrich is ready to bury Office 2010 as a dinosaur incapable of extending to the online world. Given his perspective as the chief of perhaps the most credible PowerPoint competitor, it’s no surprise he attacks PowerPoint. But does he have a point? Dietrich's message is that the […]

November 20, 2009 · Jouni Heikniemi · 5 Comments
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