xPoint Getting Started Series - On Demand/Pro End Users

These short video guides are primarily intended for end users in companies and organizations. Watching these will save you a lot of time if you're doing:

  • Presentations
  • Training sessions
  • Sales
  • Anything where you do company presentations
If you have not yet installed xPoint, follow the instructions here: HOWTO install


Browsing the library and adding slides, 55 seconds


Search for slides and add them to your current presentation, 1 minute 41 seconds


xPoint makes it possible to browse your company slide library from PowerPoint and add slides to your current presentation.

Features shown:
  • Browsing the library in PowerPoint
  • Previewing a library presentation (double-click the presentation)
  • Adding selected slides to your current presentation
  • Applying the corporate template

You will search 1000's of slides in a second with Slide Executive xPoint finding you relevant slides if there are any. The whole company knowledge bank of slides is at your fingertips from PowerPoint. Type in your search directly in the ribbon!

Features shown:
  • Search - from the ribbon
  • Search from the search pane
  • Compound search
  • Advanced search - example of searching just the title of slides

Applying the corporate template to your presentation, 1 minute 14 seconds


Setting up the search to only search your Company slide library, 57 seconds


Have you ever wondered where your corporate presentation is? Or which is the latest version of it? This is why we've introduced the Corporate Tempate button in xPoint. Applying the right template is now only one click away!

Features shown:
  • Applying the corporate template to your original presentation
  • Search & add of additional slides and applying the corporate template afterwards

By default xPoint searches 4 sources for slides and images: Your computer, your company online library, the internet and internet images. If you are part of a company you can turn everything but the company library off by default.

Features shown:
  • Setting up the search filter to search only the Company slide library
  • Search & add of additional slides and applying the corporate template afterwards

Sharing a presentation from xPoint, 1 minute 20 seconds


Preview a presentation and add slides to your current presentation, 1 minute 6 seconds


At any time when working in PowerPoint with a presentation, you can choose to upload it to the slide library to share your work with others.

Features shown:
  • Uploading your current presentation to the Company slide library
  • Preview of the uploaded presentation

Before deciding if you want to add slides from a presentation you can preview the slides, right in PowerPoint, and choose which ones you want to add. Just double-click on the presentation to see the slides.

Features shown:
  • Double click to preview & add
  • Right-click to preview through the context menu
  • Right-click to add all slides through the context menu

Searching for images on the web, 54 seconds


Connecting to your company slide library from xPoint, 2 minutes 40 seconds


xPoint allows you to search for images on the Internet from within PowerPoint. Just drag and drop the images you find to your slide.

Features shown:
  • Choosing to search for web images only
  • Adding images to your slide by drag and drop

You should be set to go if your administrator has given you your:
  1. Server link/URL
  2. User name
  3. Password

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