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• Corporate PowerPoint files now play on iPad

  Brainshark this week at Macworld|iWorld goes live with an enterprise version of its PowerPoint "translator" for the iPad.

• How to use animation in PowerPoint

  When you think about animation, little dancing men pop-up in your head, but it is so much more than just that. We are talking about the incorporation of 3-D animation, sound and how the two works together.

• How to embed video in PowerPoint

  You will find a lot of tips and hints on the internet, but for simple video embedding, the following steps will work just fine. PowerPoint can use a wide variety of video files including Flash, Windows Media Files (asf), Windows Video Files (avi), Microsoft Recorded TV Shows (dvr-ms), Movie Files (mpeg) and windows Media Video Files (wmv) among others.

• How to convert PowerPoint to video

  The options available can become overbearing and confusing. The following description of how to convert your PowerPoint document to a video, is simple and also supplies you with a PowerPoint hosting service.

• Best Microsoft PowerPoint Background Sites

  If you use PowerPoint on a regular basis, you will no doubt have been occasionally frustrated that the backgrounds available do not always match your products or presentation topic.

• Best Microsoft PowerPoint Template Sites

  If you have already used most of the Microsoft PowerPoint templates and you’re looking for some new ones we've selected some of the best

• VMware buys another slice of the Cloud with SlideRocket

  In a surprise move, virtualization and cloud infrastructure specialist VMware has purchased online presentations tool SlideRocket. VMware purchased e-mail collaboration suite Zimbra earlier this year and this latest acquisition indicates VMware is staking a claim in the productivity cloud marketplace.

• Office 365: Not for smaller businesses

  Now that the public beta has begun, I've had a little time to evaluate Office 365, and it's been an interesting experience. I run a small business and am already a Google Apps for Business user, so am I tempted to make the switch?

• 'Limitless' whiteboarding tool enables online meetings

  A unique online presentation tool on Thursday began letting users in multiple locations work on the same page at the same time. With Prezi Meeting, up to 10 people can access and edit Flash-based presentations made in Prezi.

• Microsoft plans jumbo patch day next week

  Microsoft today said it will deliver 10 security updates next week to patch serious bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Word and Excel.

• Microsoft delivers mega PowerPoint patch

  As expected, Microsoft today patched a six week-old critical vulnerability in PowerPoint, the presentation maker that's part of the popular Office suite, using a single security update.

• Microsoft to patch PowerPoint zero-day bug on Tuesday

  Microsoft today said it will deliver just one security update next week, a fix for PowerPoint that's probably the patch for a month-old bug that developers admitted they missed during stress testing.

• Attackers exploit critical PowerPoint vulnerability

  For the second time in five weeks, Microsoft Corp. warned that hackers were exploiting a critical unpatched bug in its popular Office application suite.