PowerPoint Add-ins

Avopress Designer
A Theme is an important part of your PowerPoint presentation, and to some extent it is also an important element that helps create the same consistent appearance within your Word documents and Excel sheets. Also, it is this Theme that persists in retaining your brand identity within your slides and other digital documents. And yet, Themes are a mystery to most users – and there’s no easy way to understand what is happening behind the scenes. Avopress Designer, the product we are reviewing today can help solve that mystery.

ShapeChef
ShapeChef is a PowerPoint add-in which enables you to collect and organize your shapes and other assets, and share them online.

Office Timeline
Office Timeline is an add-in for PowerPoint that helps you create a project timeline or Gantt chart, or any other timeline graphic. These timeline graphics provide an easy way to present your project plans to team members, management, and clients. The Office Timeline wizard lets you pick the type of timeline you want to create. Pick from 10 Timeline templates, enter the data, personalize the Timelines to suit your project needs, and finally click Finish. You can even copy and paste data from Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Project to quickly create timelines.

Flip PowerPoint Professional
So much hard work goes into creating presentation slides in PowerPoint -- that's the reason why many users want to repurpose their PowerPoint content to make elearning content, online presentations, screen savers and even ebooks. And our review product today goes a step further and lets you create page-flipping ebooks. Flip PowerPoint Professional opens your existing PowerPoint slides, and then provides you extra elements to design consulting quality documents.

Flevy Tools
Flevy Tools lets you easily create automated diagrams such as Approach Diagrams, Step Box Diagrams, Harvey Ball Diagrams, Gantt Charts, etc. All graphics created are native PowerPoint objects that you can edit further. Even more amazing -- this tool is free.

NXPowerLite 1.0 for PowerPoint on Mac
Neuxpower NXPowerLite for PowerPoint 1.0 is the new version for Mac users. NXPowerLite for Mac optimize PowerPoint files with the file extensions PPT or PPTX. It shrinks the size of large PowerPoint files by removing unnecessary data and converting graphics into the most appropriate file format and resolution without losing the quality of the images.

Slide Executive xPoint Web Edition
Like Slide Executive xPoint Desktop Edition, an add-in that we have already reviewed, the Web Edition of the same add-in searches and inserts slides and images from the web, straight into your PowerPoint presentations. The add-in installs as a tab of the Ribbon within PowerPoint providing access to a local and/or a central slide library in the cloud.

Podium
Podium is a PowerPoint add-in that provides a huge library of media elements such as images, vector drawings, ready-to-use backgrounds, 3D clip art and shapes, embellishments, etc. All these elements are royalty free, and most of these can also be individually customized to match the look of your slides.

MapPrez
MapPrez is a PowerPoint add-in that enables you to insert maps, and add place locations as labels directly on inserted maps. All these actions can be done through a dedicated MapPrez tab in PowerPoint's Ribbon. All maps are sourced from Google -- and you can thus insert brilliant satellite and cartographic imagery with a click or two.

Chart Advisor
Chart Advisor is a free add-in from Microsoft Office Labs for Excel 2007 that helps you to quickly choose the perfect chart type for your data.

Resize
PPTools Resize is a PowerPoint add-in that allows PowerPoint users to change the size of their slides without distorting anything on the slides.

OfficeOne Animations
OfficeOne Animations is a PowerPoint add-in that provides over 50 extra animation effects other than what are already provided by PowerPoint.

Avopress Designer
A Theme is an important part of your PowerPoint presentation, and to some extent it is also an important element that helps create the same consistent appearance within your Word documents and Excel sheets. Also, it is this Theme that persists in retaining your brand identity within your slides and other digital documents. And yet, Themes are a mystery to most users – and there’s no easy way to understand what is happening behind the scenes. Avopress Designer, the product we are reviewing today can help solve that mystery.

Articulate Presenter '09
Articulate Presenter ’09 is the new version of Articulate Presenter, a product that quickly creates Flash-based presentations and e-learning courses from PowerPoint.

BrainStorm QuickHelp
BrainStorm QuickHelp is an online resource that provides many video tutorials on using Microsoft Office programs.

Cinematize 3 Pro
Cinematize 3 Pro is a DVD extractor program that lets you rip a clip (or part of a clip) from your DVD. You can also rip just the audio track, the video track, or subtitles -- and convert the extracted content into various video and audio formats. Cinematize 3 Pro has the ability to batch-extract any number of segments, and you can save your favorite settings as presets, to be used in future.

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Dynamic NEWS
Dynamic NEWS is an add-in for PowerPoint that enables you to add RSS feeds to your PowerPoint presentations. Typically, RSS feeds deliver the latest news, but, of course, you are not limited to news alone! Whatever the content of the RSS feed you choose to integrate, the moot point here is that this content can be presented and delivered right from within a PowerPoint slide. You can imagine that the possibilities to use something of this sort can be endless.

Effective Presentations
Effective Presentations is a set of three CDs that contains movie-based tutorial chapters on creating better presentations in PowerPoint.

Dynamic TIME
Let's imagine that you want to show a clock on your slides -- or, do you want to show a countdown or even counters of seconds, minutes, hours, or even days? Or if your countdown gets to zero, you may want something to happen after that, such as moving to another slide? Of course, this is possible to achieve in PowerPoint. All you need is a thorough knowledge of programming, and even better -- a programmer sitting next to you all the time so that you don't have to worry about setting it all up! We found a better solution, and it does not need a full time programmer -- it only needs a one-time investment of a few dollars. And it's an add-in called Dynamic TIME that plugs right within PowerPoint.

FlashSpring Pro 2.2
FlashSpring Pro 2.2 is the newest version of FlashSpring -- it is a PowerPoint add-in which allows you to converts your PowerPoint presentations into Flash SWF movies with all the slide transitions, custom animations, audio and video clips, and inserted Flash SWF files intact.

iSpring Presenter 7
iSpring Presenter 7 is a PowerPoint add-in which enables you to create media-rich courses and presentations with quizzes in HTML5 and Flash.

Graphicae
Most PowerPoint add-ins bring additional features into PowerPoint - these features range from multimedia to transitions and output and design. Graphicae is different - it brings a whole new organizational structure into your PowerPoint creation workflow. Let's explore.

iSpring Converter
iSpring Converter is a PowerPoint add-in that converts your existing PowerPoint slides into interactive HTML5 content suitable for viewing on iOS devices like the iPad.

InterActiv™ Presentation Wizard
InterActiv™ Presentation Wizard is a PowerPoint add-in that creates non-linear PowerPoint presentations where all slides are interlinked to each other using hyperlinks. Think of creating kiosk style PowerPoints or just something that makes a PowerPoint presentation function as a web page.

Jigsaw Maker 2
Jigsaw Maker 2 a PowerPoint add-in can add a whole new level of interest to a PowerPoint slide, especially if the jigsaw shapes are cleverly placed and animated.

Liquid Cabaret
Liquid Cabaret is an amazing collection of music created specifically for use in PowerPoint presentations.

MagPointer
MagPointer is a PowerPoint add-in from MagPointer, that automatically detects slide objects and enables you to interact with those objects in real time.

Neuxpower NXPowerLite 5
NXPowerLite 5 reduces the size of PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, JPEG images, and PDF files (PDF is new for this version). All the optimized files retain their original format, with almost no loss of quality. The application also works integrated within Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Mail -- this means that NXPowerLite will automatically optimize email attachments as they are sent and the file recipients don't need NXPowerLite to open or edit the attachments.

Office Timeline
Office Timeline is an add-in for PowerPoint that helps you create a project timeline or Gantt chart, or any other timeline graphic. These timeline graphics provide an easy way to present your project plans to team members, management, and clients. The Office Timeline wizard lets you pick the type of timeline you want to create. Pick from 10 Timeline templates, enter the data, personalize the Timelines to suit your project needs, and finally click Finish. You can even copy and paste data from Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Project to quickly create timelines.

OfficeOne Shape Locker
Shape Locker is a PowerPoint add-in that allows you to lock several attributes so that slide objects are prevented from further modifications. These objects can be on slides, Master slides, and even Slide layouts. With Shape Locker, you can lock a slide object's position, size, rotation attributes, etc. Once attributes are locked, you cannot make any change to the restricted attributes.

PixSwap
PixSwap add-in provides you with more control over the color of your vector graphics in PowerPoint.

PowerFinish Video Backgrounds
PowerFinish looping video backgrounds from PowerFinish. These video backgrounds can be directly used in your presentations, or can be used through third party video engines.

Ribbon Hero 2
Ribbon Hero 2 is an interactive game for Microsoft Office 2010 and 2007 for Windows (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and now OneNote) designed to help you boost your knowledge and skills in using Office applications. It is from Office Labs.

Rhapzodé
Rhapzodé is being marketed as a PowerPoint security tool -- the product allows you to create EXEs from PowerPoint presentations -- these can be password protected, watermarked, and given program expiry options.

slideboxx 2.0
slideboxx 2.0 is a third party product from from Zinali, LLC, a company based in San Francisco, California, USA that searches and Indexes your PowerPoint slides quickly and easily.

SnagIt
SnagIt is from TechSmith, It is a powerful screen capture and editing tool that allows you to capture, edit, and share anything on your screen. Version 6.2 of SnagIt provides screen capture add-ins within Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Internet Explorer.

ToolsToo 5.1
ToolsToo is a PowerPoint add-in includes various options to make all objects on your slide equally sized, aligned, to share equal shape attributes etc. It also includes many more options that help you to manage your PowerPoint slide objects easily.

ToolBook Instructor 9.5
ToolBook Instructor helps users and large companies create interactive content, quizzes, assessments, and software simulations. Content is deployed as HTML for distribution on the Internet or an intranet, delivered through SumTotal Learning Management solution, or any SCORM or AICC-compliant Learning Management System (LMS).

VaySoft PPTX to EXE Converter
PPTX to EXE Converter helps you to convert PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010 PPTX files to EXE files and allows you to specify the program which can be used to view the EXE on target computers.

VisualBee 2 for PowerPoint
VisualBee 2 is a freeware PowerPoint add-in that automatically analyses your PowerPoint presentation text and structure, and builds a new designed presentation with appropriate templates, images, and graphics with an easy to use wizard based interface.

WildPresenter Pro 3
WildPresenter Pro 3 enables you to create LMS compliant, customized Flash quizzes, tests, assessments, and surveys for your PowerPoint presentation without the need for any programming.

YawnBuster
YawnBuster adds group activities such as audience polls, games, group exercises, competitions, etc. and embeds these group activities as part of your PowerPoint file. It is from Harbinger.