PowerPoint Add-in Reviews (A, B, and C)

PowerPoint Add-ins - A

Able2Extract 5.0 Professional
Able2Extract 5.0 Professional lets you convert native PDFs to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.

Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter 2
Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter converts PowerPoint presentations to popular videos formats such as AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, MOV, FLV, and 3GP.

Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube
Acoolsoft PPT2YouTube is a freeware program that converts PowerPoint presentations with all its animations, transitions, sounds and video clips retained to a format compatible with YouTube video (MP4).

ActivePresentation™ Designer
Add an interactive menu with internal hyperlinks to your slides with this add-in for PowerPoint.

ActiveSlide Thunder
ActiveSlide Thunder creates interactive Flash components suitable for PowerPoint in a few minutes using a wizard based metaphor.

Adobe Presenter 7
Adobe Presenter 7 is a PowerPoint add-in that allows you to create high-impact Adobe Flash presentations and e-Learning courses from PowerPoint.

Adobe Presenter 9 / 10
Explore various options within Adobe Presenter.

Animation Carbon
Animation Carbon can transfer animation from any shape to another shape or from one of animation libraries you create. Not only that, you can copy animations from a shape and store it for reuse in an animation library.

Animated Photo Album
Animated Photo Album is a PowerPoint add-in that simplifies the process of inserting pictures with animation and navigation.

Anystream Apreso
Anystream Apreso is an add-in for PowerPoint that converts your presentations to streaming media with one click.

Ars Media Photoshop to PowerPoint
Ars Media creates an Automate plug-in for Photoshop that exports an entire composition to a PowerPoint presentation.

Articulate Engage
Articulate Engage creates small brochure-like Flash movies with rich-media interactivity that can be embedded within PowerPoint presentations, e-learning content, and web sites.

Articulate Engage ’09
Articulate Engage ’09 is the new version of Articulate Engage, a product that easily adds stunning interactive content to your e-learning courses.

Articulate Presenter
Articulate Presenter is an online rich media platform and tool that uses PowerPoint content as its source. After converting all nuances of a typical PowerPoint presentation to a faithful Flash output, it packages the rich media in a highly customized interface that is normally equipped with narration.

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.

Articulate Presenter 5
Articulate Presenter enables you to convert a PowerPoint presentation to a Flash SWF based online rich media content -- Presenter also includes several bells and whistles such as the ability to insert quizzes, Flash animations, narrations, and web objects.

Articulate Quizmaker
Articulate Quizmaker allows you to create quizzes, assessments and surveys without any programming using simple wizards -- the output is a Flash SWF movie.

Articulate Quizmaker ’09
Articulate Quizmaker'09 s the new version of Articulate Quizmaker and it is a simple application that lets you create quizzes and surveys without any programming knowledge -- all you need to do is walk through some simple wizards -- and let Quizmaker output your quizzes as rich media Flash files.

Articulate Video Encoder ’09
Articulate Video Encoder '09 converts almost any popular video format into the FLV Flash video format. In addition, it also allows you to record video directly from your webcam to an FLV file.

Autorun CD Project Creator
Autorun CD Project Creator is a great product which resolves all hassles involved in creating autorun CDs for Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

authorPOINT Lite
authorPOINT Lite is a freeware application which converts PowerPoint presentation to Flash while retaining its animations, sounds, and narrations. The converted presentation can be viewed in any web browser locally, or can be uploaded to authorSTREAM.

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.

PowerPoint Add-ins - B

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

PowerPoint Add-ins - C

Calculate
Read the Indezine review of Calculate.

Camtasia Add-in for PowerPoint
One of the coolest things you can do on your system is to perform a video capture of on-screen activity. This is a great way to create videos of presentations, browsing or any other desktop activity. One of the best tools to do any type of video capture is Camtasia from TechSmith.

Camtasia Studio 4
Camtasia Studio includes a PowerPoint add-in that allows you to create movie captures from presentations right inside PowerPoint.

Canto Office Suite
Canto Cumulus is among the world's best known digital asset management tool that has PowerPoint support.

Capture v2
Capture v2 is a simple tool that just does a quick conversion of PowerPoint file to a SWF file. Capture does much more and the conversions are not only limited to SWF.

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.

ChristmasPowerPoints.com
ChristmasPowerPoints.com is a specialized PowerPoint backgrounds site that provides 865 ready to use backgrounds for themes like Christmas, Thanksgiving and other festivals.

Cinematize
Cinematize is a DVD extractor software which allows you extract your favorite clip from a DVD, such extracted movie clips can be used within PowerPoint, QuickTime, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Keynote, iTunes, and iPods.

Cinematize 2.03
Cinematize 2.03 is the newest Windows Vista compatible version of the product that allows you to extract audio and video clips off DVDs. These extracted movie clips can then be used in applications such as PowerPoint, QuickTime, Windows Movie Maker, Premiere, iPod, etc.

Cinematize 2 Pro
Cinematize 2 Pro allows you to extract almost any content from a DVD, be it an audio track, a video track, or a subtitle. It has the ability to batch-extract any number of segments from both DVD menus and movies, multi-channel audio extraction, subtitle decoding to QuickTime video and images.

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.

Circlify
Circlify lets you quickly create circular graphics and intricate illustrations for icons, logos, illustrations, etc.

Circulate
Circulate is a new PowerPoint add-in that quickly arranges shapes, pictures, and text into circular and semi-circular paths. You can play around with different path options to create complex patterns, motifs, logos, spirographs, etc.

Classic Menu for Office 2007
Classic Menu for Office 2007 is an add-in for some Office 2007 applications which allows the user to bring back the familiar menus and toolbars from previous versions of Microsoft Office in Microsoft Office 2007. This add-in supports all languages that are supported by Microsoft Office 2007.

ConceptDraw
ConceptDraw itself is more of a range of products rather than a single product. The range includes ConceptDraw Professional, the flagship product and several offerings for vertical markets like ConceptDraw MINDMAP, ConceptDraw Project, ConceptDraw Reporter, and ConceptDraw MEDICAL. They also create ConceptDraw Presenter and ConceptDraw Server products.

Convexion Pro
Convexion is a PowerPoint 2007 add-in that enables you to publish your presentations to the Microsoft Silverlight and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) formats for sharing and viewing on the web, and in blogs. It also exports as a live desktop presentation player. In theory, Convexion retains all the PowerPoint presentations animations, effects, & transitions of the original PowerPoint.

CrystalGraphics Charts and Diagram Slides for PowerPoint
CrystalGraphics Charts and Diagram Slides for PowerPoint is from CrystalGraphics, a well-known vendor of PowerPoint add-ins for more than a decade. This add-in comprises over 1000 data-driven charts and editable diagrams. All the content is available as slides that you insert into your existing presentations. While the entire content is available as PowerPoint slides (in the PPTX format), the best way to use these is via a custom add-in that plugs into PowerPoint.