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    PowerPoint® is an incredibly powerful presentation tool in its own right. To increase its effectiveness and potential, many companies have created additional programs that work in conjunction with and expand the horizons of PowerPoint® software functionality. Listed here are some of the most effective add-ons for PowerPoint® presentation software. This listing will be continually be revised. To read an impartial review of the effectiveness of the add-on and its use in creating educational presentations, please refer to the review section of this site.

   

What if you could structure your stories even faster directly in PowerPoint? With the Sociable Media PowerPoint® Add-In, you can write out all of the key elements of your story directly into an innovative Story Editor interface. When you're finished with your 3-act structure, click a button and you have an instant storyboard!

The Instant Effects product line allows Microsoft ® PowerPoint ® users to make visually compelling, interactive rich media presentations from their most basic PowerPoint® files in just a few clicks. A powerful rich media PowerPoint® add on that any PowerPoint® user can operate. Use PowerPoint® like you always do, then enter OfficeFX and select FXThemes™ that give your presentation compelling new looks and behaviors. Change your PowerPoint® content at any time.
Ovation™ turns lifeless PowerPoint® slides into a stunning visual experience in seconds. Select from over 100 sensational templates and backgrounds to add subtle motion, high-resolution text, and dynamic TV-style transitions to plain PowerPoint® slides. Ovation also includes a suite of invaluable presentation tools to help you deliver your message better.
Perspector™ is an add-in for Microsoft® PowerPoint®. It has 3D and animation capabilities that enable the creation of exciting and compelling images way beyond those that can be made with PowerPoint on its own. If you know the PowerPoint user interface then you will find Perspector easy to use.
In simplest terms, PFC Media converts the media to a format all versions of PowerPoint® and the PowerPoint® viewer can play, lets you set the animations with a single mouse click, inserts it into your presentation, and then saves the media along with your presentation to insure better linking and transportability.  Send the presentation to another Windows PC and you can be assured it will " P lay F or C ertain".  (They do not need PFC Media or any other additional software.)  The other major benefit?  PFC Media will SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the actual file size of almost all video files.  And we do mean SIGNIFICANTLY .
Simple PowerPoint to Flash Conversion... SWiSH Presenter is the quickest easiest way to get your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations on the web! SWiSH Presenter works either within Microsoft PowerPoint as a plugin or as a separate application for batch conversion. PowerPoint plugin---
You can use SWiSHpresenter within Microsoft PowerPoint for quick and easy conversion to Flash.
OfficeOne
PowerShow View different PowerPoint® slide shows on separate monitors simultaneously and more.
OfficeOne Animations Adds over 50 sophisticated and subtle animation effects for everyday use.
ProTools for PowerPoint® Quickly create PowerPoint® presentations using Professional Tools for PowerPoint®.
Shortcut Manager for PowerPoint® Assign keyboard shortcuts to menu items, recorded macros and VBA code in PowerPoint®.
Volume Control Assign volume to PowerPoint® slides individually. Create volume and mute controllers on slide to enable you to adjust volume levels and control mute during shows.
SundayStar Start multiple slide shows on a monitor simultaneously. Switch between running slide shows using keyboard shortcuts.
PowerViewer Adds multiple monitor capabilities to Microsoft® PowerPoint® Viewer 2003.
PowerKiosk Introduces multiple monitors to PowerPoint® 97. View different slide shows on separate monitors simultaneously with PowerPoint® 97.
Send To Publisher Export PowerPoint® slides to Microsoft® Publisher for booklet printing.
AutoDateTime Inserts the current date and time on all your slides.
Default Slide Layout Change the type of slide layout inserted when you insert a new slide.
Event Generator Redirect add-in events to the individual presentations.
Face Id Explorer Identifying all the face ids for commandbar images.
Kiosk Assistant Reset your slide show automatically (functionality removed in PowerPoint 2002).
Multi Save Lets you save a presentation in multiple formats simultaneously
Show Monitor Automatically advanced a slide show if it stalls.
Show Plus View more than one slide show on the screen at the same time.
Slide Show Navigator Lets you jump to any slide during a slide show.
Smooth Shadows Enables you to create smooth gradient shadows for shapes and objects.
Track Show Enables you to track navigation during a slide show and to go back in the same order.
Transparent Show Allows you to see animated objects on your desktop.
VBA Controls Assistant Add VBA Controls to your slides to create interactive presentations.
Web Browser Assistant Assists you in inserting live web pages onto slides in your presentations.
Shyam Pillai
Animation Carbon Copy, duplicate, manage, export, share PowerPoint 2002/2003 animations. Everything that you always wanted.
Batch Exporter Fast, efficient and streamlined to export the components of a presentation in an organized manner for archival or other related purposes.
Handout Wizard for PowerPoint Break free from the limitations imposed by PowerPoint on creation of handouts. Create your own customized layouts and more. No more file bloats of Send-To-Word option.
Toolbox for PowerPoint As promised this is the compiled collection of my newsgroup code postings and other related code found on my site for the end users.
Secure Pack Create standalone executables. Password protect your presentations being tampered/edited. Distribute them securely. Secure Pack transforms presentations - the most common form of business communication - into non-editable valuable assets. 
Image Importer Wizard Import tons of images into PowerPoint fast. Customize it to your requirement.   Set search parameters, image criteria, import rules, save these settings etc.
Motion Path Tools Contains two tools including the motion path end position and the tool to align/join individual segments of animation to create a continuous path of animation.
Music Span Play an audio track in the background.
Motion Path End Position

Create duplicate shapes to quickly determine the final stop of any motion path animation Version: PowerPoint 2002 or later. 

Work Area

Emulates the Work menu available in Microsoft Word. Version: PowerPoint 97 or later.

Shape Console

Displays a resizable floating window of the current shape selection within PowerPoint. Version: PowerPoint 2000 or later. 

Key/Phrase Search

Search for keywords or phrase within a presentation during design or slide show. Version: PowerPoint 97 or later. 

Capture Show

Capture slide builds/pen annotations into a new presentation or as images. Version: PowerPoint 2000+. 

Sequential Save Create single/multiple backup copies while working. Version: PowerPoint 97 or later. 
Color Scheme Manager Copy, manage and distribute color schemes within PowerPoint. 
Flashback Rewind inserted Flash movies automatically during the slide show. 
ImageFlip Prevent flipping of images in presentation created in older versions and opened in 2002+
LiveWeb Insert web pages, java applets, acrobat file and update them during slide show automatically. Ideal for running a show continuously with updated information, giving demonstration of a website during slideshow.
LiveImage This add-in for PowerPoint will update all linked images during slide show automatically
Rename Shape/Slide This add-in for PowerPoint 2000+ users will let you rename a shape/slide in the design mode by merely selecting the same and entering the new name.
Single Slide Show Window This add-in for PowerPoint 97/2000+ will seamlessly close any parent slideshow window when a new one is launched via hyperlink, action setting etc.
Update Links During Show

This add-in will allow a user to update information of all linked objects in a presentation automatically while the show is active. It is freeware. Version Supported versions 97/2000+.

NoEscape

The add-in prevents a user from escaping out of a presentation. It is freeware. Versions Supported versions 2000+.

FaceID Browser Peruse thru all the menu icons available in Microsoft Office and get their face ids quickly. Add-ins available for Excel, PowerPoint, Word versions (97/2000). Also COM add-in available for Office 2000 VBE.
Print Custom Show Custom shows are a neat feature in PowerPoint, however the problem arises when you attempt the print the same with page numbers. The slides print well but the still retain their original page numbers. This add-in address this particular issue. The setup file includes instructions on how to install as well as use the add-in.  It is freeware
Auto Events

Take the bite out of event handling in PowerPoint 2000/2002. The add-in is an event handler which executes auto macros upon various events. It is freeware. Version supported: PowerPoint 2000 & XP.

Launch Download this 15KB executable to replace the functions of Start.exe while creating an autorun CD.
VBA Quiz

This is the accompanying download for the Quiz in PowerPoint using VBA article Version supported: PowerPoint 97/2000+ 

Tic-Tac-Toe

A sample demonstration of the popular Cross & Zero game done in PowerPoint Version supported: PowerPoint 97/2000+ 

Set Default View

Set a default view to open files in PowerPoint. Version supported: PowerPoint 2000 or later.

Set Default Layout

Set a default layout to be used whenever a new slide is inserted into the presentation Version supported: PowerPoint 2000 or later.

Chart Update

Update charts with links to Excel data. Version supported: PowerPoint 97/2000 or later.

Bill Dilworth
PowerPoint add-in that replaces and enhances the native 'Send To Word' function.  It has multiple options that increase the usability while keeping the low output file size and fast function speed.

Free PowerPoint add-in that adds the ability to display 'Slide 4 of 12' style page numbering on the bottom of all the slides.  This add-in also has a function that allows the user to save a selection of slides as a new presentation.

Free PowerPoint add-in that adds the ability to immediately jump to a slide in edit view.
This is a free add-in that will simply open a handy directory where you can store links, files, or whatever in for later easy retrieval.  The items you store will be at your "Finger Tips".
This is a free add-in that adds a slight black drop shadow to text on all the slides in a presentation. 
This is a free add-in that will automatically add the controls and code required to manually move any picture/text/object on a slide during an active presentation.  You will need to allow PowerPoint to change VBA code by selecting Tools -> Macro -> Security -> Trusted Sources -> Trust access to Visual Basic Project.
This free add-in remembers what presentations you have open whenever PowerPoint is closed, and gives you the option of reopening them when PowerPoint next opens.  It will only work in Powerpoint 2002 (XP) and newer, but can be rather useful.  For this add-in to function, the following option must be set:  Tools è Options è View è Uncheck 'Windows in Taskbar'.
This is a free add-in that will automatically count the number of words, letters, spaces, puncuation marks, etc. on your slides and in your notes. 
This is a free (but not fully tested yet) add-in that will give you the option to activate a website address when selected within the notes page.  The add-in can be turned on or off from within the tools menu.  As of now, it is limited to activating com, org and biz domain addresses.
A ZIP-compressed free add-in that will allows for multiple lines of text within the slide footer.  The add-in is activates from within the tools menu. 
A ZIP-compressed free add-in that will print your presentation in Notes Page format.  What makes this special is that it will add additional pages to print the overflow from any notes page.  The add-in is activates from within the tools menu. 
Its a logger, folks.  A ZIP-compressed free add-in that logs the times a Presentation is opened, a Slide Show started, which slides are displayed and when, then stores it all in a simple text file in the same folder as the presentation. The add-in is activates/de-activates from within the tools menu. 
This will print alternate sided 3-up handouts.  Kinda cool fun.  Could save paper if your printer can handle it.
What is Swiff Point Player?
Swiff Point Player is a Free Microsoft PowerPoint Add In that enables Web Designers and Flash Users to easily insert and play their Flash movies in their Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
No need for Visual Basic programming
No more strange movie playback
Swiff Point Player dramatically accelerate the production time. Flash Designers no more have to add Visual Basic code to control the playback of their inserted Flash movies in Microsoft PowerPoint. Swiff Point Player ensure perfect movie playback during slide browsing.
WowChart makes producing awesome charts as simple as a single button click.
Why go to the trouble of using expensive and complicated 3D authoring packages when WowChart makes it so easy. WowChart comes with complete set of 3D chart templates.  Simply create a WowChart and then select the look you are after.
Thermometer for PowerPoint® is a free add-in that creates a thermometer style bar in the bottom area of the slide that shows how much of a presentation has progressed and how much more is remaining.
AutoShape Magic is a free PowerPoint® add-in that helps you keep all your AutoShapes centered and sized. It also lets you apply gradient fills and change the gradient directions. In addition, you can reverse colors of gradient and pattern fills.
Snag It...Capture screen images, text and printer output from your Windows PC with SnagIt’s award winning  interface, then quickly enhance with the in-line editor. Snag It is available in PowerPoint®.
Camtasia Studio is a complete solution for quickly creating professional-looking videos of your PC desktop activity. Anyone can Record and create a full-motion video tutorial or presentation, in real-time, and publish it in the format of their choice. No multimedia or programming experience necessary!
Microsoft® Producer for Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003, the current version of this popular add-on for Microsoft® PowerPoint®, can help you easily capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images. It's the ideal tool for creating engaging presentations, training, and business communications. Producer 2003 is designed to run with PowerPoint® 2003 or Microsoft® PowerPoint® version 2002, available in Microsoft® Office 2003 Editions or Office XP suites.
pptExtreme suite of tools are designed to improve your productivity in PowerPoint®. With these powerful add-ins, tasks that previously required many steps to accomplish can be handled quickly and easily. Need to find an exact color? Want to drop a hundred pictures onto as many frames? Want to import from Photoshop? Need to make sure your objects are the exact same size and in the same place? Wish you could re-use that animation you just spent 30 minutes creating? Need to duplicate a complex animation once or many times? With these PowerPoint®® tools, nothing could be easier and quicker. pptXTREME™ tools save you time, money and - most of all - frustration.

PowerPlugs: Transitions adds sophisticated television-style 3D slide effects to your presentations. Its stunning visual effects and realistic, synchronized sounds are a sure way to keep your audiences' attention and make your message more memorable. The easy-to-use software plugs directly into PowerPoint®, enabling you to add 3D animated transitions right from the Slide Show menu. Each volume of PowerPlugs: includes more than 70 PowerPoint® transition effects, based on variations of sophisticated and eye-catching styles.
Five volumes of PowerPlugs: Transitions are now available.

PowerPlugs: Charts helps you easily create television-quality charts, without the assistance of a graphic artist. It offers you a wide variety of unique 2D and 3D charting styles with a rich set of powerful editing tools — so you can get just the results you need directly from within Microsoft® PowerPoint® and Excel!
PowerPlugs: Charts has over 100 pre-formated 2D & 3D chart templates organized into 11 categories: Basic, Big Data Set, Corporate, Gradients, Letter Size Black and White, Letter Size Color, Models, Rendered, Surveys, Textured and Trendlines.
PowerPlugs: Charts lets you choose over 31 chart types based on the following types of categories: Area, Bar, Bubble, Column, Histograms, Lines, Pies, Scatter, and Surface. Its unique Data Analyzer feature can automatically recommend the best type of chart to use for your data set.
PowerPlugs: FlashReady lets you import your Flash animations directly into PowerPoint® in a very straightforward and hassle-free way. It allows you to select them, preview them, embed them and even loop them if you want – all in as few as two clicks. They automatically rewind and run properly in PowerPoint® without any technical difficulty or programming by you!
PowerPlugs: FlashReady includes over 90 Flash animations, including animated business oriented icons, banners that can be used to enhance the overall feel of your presentation! Place them on your Slide or Title Master on the side or bottom of the slide for a unique effect.
PowerPlugs: Presentations to Go is a totally unique product that consists of a series of professionally designed presentation “shells”—including layouts, backgrounds and outlines—covering 23 of the most common presentation topics. Each graphically-rich shell helps you quickly organize your ideas and clarify your key message for your selected topic. Simply read the included recommendations for content, then drop in the text and you'll have a complete and great-looking presentation…to go!
Each presentation shell includes over twenty slides covering your selected topic in a professional, audience-focused way . Carefully chosen sophisticated graphical designs illustrate key concepts and keep your audience's attention. Each presentation shell also includes a unique accompanying “how-to” presentation that will lead you through the process of identifying your key objectives and planning how to engage your audience. These how-to presentations also include expert tips on the best ways to effectively organize and present your own content.
PowerPlugs: Templates will give your presentations a neat, unified, and memorable appearance — a sophisticated look that today's audiences expect.
Each template includes a pair of slide masters — one designed for the title slide and another especially for the body of the presentation — with complementary background images for both (see examples). Some templates even include a third variation designed especially for print. Loaded onto 8 CDs, the full set of over 30,000 PowerPoint® presentation templates includes over 60,000 gorgeous background images in all.
PowerPlugs: 3D Titles lets you add impressive-looking animated 3D title slides to your PowerPoint® presentations in seconds. Each volume includes 30 pre-created 3D animations inspired by television and film. All the animations are customizable. And 3D Titles works right inside of PowerPoint®!
3D Titles is extremely easy to use. Once installed, a new menu item will appear in PowerPoint®'s Insert menu. When you click "Add 3D Title Slide" you will see 3D Titles' intuitive, PowerPoint®-style main dialog displaying a gallery of professionally created 3D title animations.
Simply pick the 3D animation you want, type your title (and optional subtitle) text and voila! — you're done. Your personalized 3D title, along with other artistic elements, will automatically animate together smoothly, just like the ones on TV.
3D Titles' Advanced... button leads to a rich editing environment which allows you to customize your selected 3D title animation by changing the colors, materials, sizes, orientation and other attributes of each of its elements.
PowerPlugs: PhotoActive FX adds television-style still and animated effects to the photos in your presentations. And it does all this right inside Microsoft® PowerPoint®! This helps makes it incredibly easy to use, and lets you avoid the hassle of importing and exporting graphics files.
PhotoActive FX's stunning visual effects will focus your audience's attention on your key visuals - helping you to communicate more effectively. These pre-created effects are sold in a series of volumes. Volumes 1 & 2 are available now. More volumes will be available soon!
PowerPlugs: SuperShapes adds television-style still and animated shape effects to your PowerPoint® presentations. SuperShapes goes way beyond the static 2D world of PowerPoint®'s AutoShapes with artistically designed, colored and animated 3D shapes such as arrows, buttons, text frames, banners, separators and more! These professional quality shape effects will visually direct your audience's attention to your key points by pointing, surrounding, and underlining them.
SuperShapes is not a clipart package. It has as its foundation a powerful software engine that lets you easily browse and select from a wide variety of pre-created shape effects. It also lets you edit the effects to your heart's content. For example, you can change colors, timing, size, even proportions!
But, the greatest thing about SuperShapes is that you can usually get the exact effect you want with just a few clicks. Its interface is very intuitive. And it works right inside Microsoft® PowerPoint®, which helps make it even easier to use!
PowerPlugs: Music for PowerPoint® is an add-in to Microsoft® PowerPoint® that enables you to add upbeat background music to all your PowerPoint® presentations in just two clicks. Music is a proven way to boost the enthusiasm level of your audiences!
PowerPlugs: Music adds looping music clips to PowerPoint® slides, without annoying pauses or icons that must be clicked on to start the music during the presentations. There are two volumes available. Each volume has 30 professional soundtracks made up of 180 unique music clips. PowerPlugs: Music supports WAV files.
PowerPlugs: Screensaver Creator. Screensavers can be cool, funny, hypnotic, attractive, motivational and/or educational. Wouldn’t it be great if you could easily create your own screensaver, quickly and easily with the tools you are already familiar with?
Well, now you can, with PowerPlugs: Screensaver Creator! It allows you to easily create all the special purpose screensavers you’d like, right from within PowerPoint®, using PowerPoint®’s own tools. Then you can distribute them to as many people as you want, royalty free!
PowerPlugs: Quotations CrystalGraphics presents the world's largest collection of famous quotations — inspirational quotes, funny quotes, love quotes, and more. Finding the perfect quote is fast and easy, with more than 45,000 famous quotes conveniently searchable by topics, author, keywords and source. PowerPlugs: Quotations is the only program of its kind that works directly inside Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Word, and Outlook.
PowerPlugs: Quotations is an essential tool for anyone who uses PowerPoint®, Word, or Outlook — sales professionals, consultants, executives, students, teachers, and preachers alike. Use PowerPlugs: Quotations to capture the attention and imagination of your audience with vibrant words of famous personalities. Your audience will be more receptive to your messages — and YOU will look authoritative, knowledgeable, and well read.
PowerPlugs: Headings. Give your PowerPoint® presentations a designer look! Each volume of PowerPlugs: Headings includes over 1000 professional-quality headings and coordinated backdrops for enhancing Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations. They'll add style, depth and emphasis to your slides. Using them in your presentations will surely impress your audiences with a cutting-edge designer look.
PowerPlugs: Headings includes four styles of headings per volume. Each style set includes over 300 graphic elements, including:
279 artistically-styled English-language words or phrases popularly used as slide titles in presentations
36 artistically styled letters and numbers that can be used to begin your own custom titles. The possibilities are endless!
8 professionally designed and visually-coordinated backdrops. You can use these to frame and enhance your titles as well as bulleted text, charts, photos and more!
Installation is simple. Once installed, users can easily select these attractive graphic elements through the PowerPoint® Insert menu using the Picture > From File command. All images are stored in PNG file format at 1024 x 768 in resolution.
PowerPlugs: Video Backgrounds Player allows you—for the first time ever—to add full-screen moving backgrounds in to PowerPoint® presentations. What's more, you can easily do it with just 3 clicks! You may use your own video clips or purchase some of the incredible ones that we offer as part of our PowerPlugs: Video Backgrounds Content collection.

Powerfinish knows that choosing PowerPoint® templates for your presentation is important.  The best slide backgrounds offer strong design, but they aren't too wild, too distracting, too predictable... they're - just right!
Whether you want conservative or cutting edge, bold or subtle, we have the perfect templates and backgrounds for your next presentation.
We offer one of the largest high quality PowerPoint® design collections available.  We've been in business since 1993, and we're so certain of our professional design quality, we offer a 30 day unconditional guarantee

RNR Free PPTools Starter Set is a great addition to your PowerPoint® toolkit.
It includes plenty of handy tools that'll make your work with PowerPoint® more productive, efficient and enjoyable.
The Free Starter Set includes:
Zoom tools
Accurate sizing and placement tools
Text tools
Property info tool
Windows mini-app launchers
Unit conversion and Pixel size calculation tool

The inexpensive ($19.95) Starter Set Plus upgrade really pours on the power with:
An Insert Picture tool that frees you from PowerPoint®'s insistence on My Pictures
Comment tools that let you share your PowerPoint® 2002/2003 comments with PowerPoint® 2000 and 97 users (who can't see the comments from PowerPoint® 2002/2003 otherwise)
A layer manager that lets you change the order of shapes on your slides visually, rename shapes, delete them, dupe them, nudge them or even hide them from view.
A Property Inspector tool that can edit links, rename shapes and slides, add tags to shapes, slides and presentations ... and lots more.

RNR Prep4PDF If you convert your PowerPoint® presentations to Acrobat PDF files, you notice a peculiar thing:
Most of the interactive features ... the action buttons, links and other goodies that make your presentation dynamic and easy to navigate ...
don't work in the PDF!Poof! Gone!
To make the PDF interactive again, you have to open it in Adobe Acrobat and re-create all the links and actions you already DID in PowerPoint®. That's if you have Acrobat. If not, you're out of luck.
That's crazy. PowerPoint® does links. Acrobat does links. Why can't they cooperate?
They can! Prep4PDF makes the connection.
Prep4PDF is simple to use. You just open your PowerPoint® file, set a few options and click a button. Prep4PDF locates all the interactive features in your presentation and adds a little magic code that later creates a PDF link in that same spot. It works with web links, action buttons, comments and more.
RNR ShapeStyles Word has styles. Excel has styles. You can format text or graphics, save the formatting as a style, then later apply the style to other parts of the document. It's a great feature, one that saves hours of manual formatting. So why not in PowerPoint®?
That's what we thought.PowerPoint®'s masters and placeholders do a great job of bringing consistency to our presentations, but why not add styles and really do the job right?
We thought that too. So we did.PPTools ShapeStyles brings the Power of Styles to PowerPoint®. Now you can apply formatting that used to take three or four dialog boxes and two dozen mouseclicks to accomplish. All with one ... we'll repeat that ... one mouseclick.
And ShapeStyles can optionally update every styled shape in the presentation when you change the style.
RNR FixLinks Pro When you give your presentation the FixLinks Pro treatment before moving it to another computer or burning it to CD, FixLinks copies all the linked files to the same folder as your presentation file (or to a set of subfolders). Then it removes the path information from all of the links; when it's done, the links point directly to the files, without any drive and folder references.
What does FixLinks Pro do?

It automatically copies linked files into your staging folder
It optionally copies linked files to subfolders instead; you could have it put all images in an \Images folder, media files in \Media and so on.
It fixes links to images
It fixes links to sounds
It fixes links to movies (AVI, etc)
It fixes OLE linked content in any of several ways (as explained above)

If it can't find a linked file where it's supposed to be, it asks you to locate the file using a standard Windows file dialog box. You browse to the file and select it, FixLinks copies it to the staging folder and resets the links.
Once it's done, FixLinks shows you a report listing the links it found and tells you whether it was able to repair the link or not.

RNR PPTMerge is a powerful tool that merges a PowerPoint® template slide or presentation with data from your Excel or Text files to produce customized individual slides or complete presentations -- quickly and automatically.
Think of it as Mailmerge for PowerPoint®. You choose a "template" presentation, choose a data file to merge into it and PPTMerge does the rest, automatically creating a slide -- or a complete presentation -- customized with the data from each record in your data file.
RNR PPT2HTML With PPT2HTML, you can convert your PowerPoint® presentations to web pages that look exactly the way you want them to. More and more teachers use PowerPoint® to create class content. More and more schools are putting class content on line. That's great for the teachers and students, but it can be a real nightmare for the webmaster or instructional technology specialist charged with making it all happen. PPT2HTML lets you put your PowerPoint® presentations on the web quickly and efficiently. It gives you near-total control over the appearance of the converted web pages. The PPT2HTMLBatch takes it a step further and automates the whole conversion process. You, your users or a server script drop PowerPoint® files into a "watched" folder and PPT2HTMLBatch converts them per your specs.
RNR Presentation Optimizer Let the RnR Presentation Optimizer cut those monster PowerPoint® files down to size without sacrificing quality. Create copies of your presentation that are perfectly sized for:

Emailing
Web
Common laptop and desktop video display sizes
Desktop printing
35mm Slides
Prepress
Purchase it here

Optimizer removes the "dead weight" from your presentations. It cuts high resolution images down to size, converts space-hogging pasted graphics and data to PowerPoint®-native images and more.

RNR Image Exporter While PowerPoint® itself exports your slides to several graphics formats, it doesn't let you control the size of the images or the range of slides to be exported. The RnR Image Exporter tool gives you complete control over that and more. If you're exporting images for pre-press, you don't have to mess around with pixels and calculators and all that; just tell the Image Exporter the size you want the images to print and the linescreen you'll be using and let it do the math for you.
RNR Palette Toolbar The Palette Toolbar lets you create and use any number of named palettes, each with up to 96 colors. When you change from one palette to another, any color in your presentation that's been assigned a palette color gets updated with the color from the new palette.
RNR Protect Protect your presentations from unwanted tampering and prevent unauthorized use of your presentation content. RnRProtect makes a copy of your original PowerPoint® presentation and converts each original slide to a bitmap image of the slide. It's almost impossible to change the content of a Protected presentation, and nobody can copy and paste the text and data since there is no text and data to be copied in a Protected show. You could always manually export each slide in the presentation to a bitmap picture then re-import each picture into a new presentation and size it to fill the screen, but why go to all that effort? Protect will do it for you automatically in a few seconds. Not only is Protect faster, but it does more for you. With Protect, you can: Choose the resolution of the bitmap pictures you export so that the Protected presentation is optimized for the screen you plan to display it on
Include slide titles in the outline of your Protected presentation so you can still navigate quickly to any slide Include speaker notes from the original presentation in the Protected version
Note that because each slide is converted to a single bitmap, your animations and links will no longer function in the Protected version of the presentation. Your original presentation will remain unchanged, of course.
Advanced PowerPoint® Explorer ... Designers invariably use Adobe Photoshop to create backgrounds and graphic elements for presentations and templates. Until now, you could not import Photoshop compositions into PowerPoint® with their layers intact. Nor could Photoshop export an entire composition in a format that PowerPoint® could understand.
So, it's certainly out of the ordinary to see a specialized product that covers this vacuum. Ars Media creates an Automate plug-in for Photoshop that exports an entire composition to a PowerPoint® presentation.
This plug-in automates the work you used to do, when transferring Photoshop images to PowerPoint®. Basically, plug-in iterates trough Photoshop layers, selects image part of a layer, copies that part in to a new file and then saves that file with transparency correctly preserved for importing into PowerPoint®. Once the plug-in finishes with all the layers it generates PowerPoint® compatible HTML file.
You can add resulting HTML file in your existing PowerPoint® presentation as you would add any other power point slide.
PPT-Timer is a one PowerPoint® utility that implements a real-time clock that is shown and updated during a slide show.  Choices include time-of-day display, elapsed time display, or a countdown timer.  The last choice includes the option of forced termination after a specific grace period.
Random Slide Show allows for every time the slide show runs, the slides are displayed in a random order.

DataPoint for Microsoft® PowerPoint® is a Microsoft® PowerPoint® add-on that enables you to link your Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations to Microsoft® Excel worksheets, text files and databases such as Microsoft® Access, Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle and others.

Take-off PlanPoint is a free Microsoft® PowerPoint® add-on that enables you to show or hide slides in a presentation at specified dates and times.
Take-off ShowPoint is a free Microsoft® PowerPoint® add-on that enables you to start a selected presentation remotely.
Blacksun software is a Color Picker for easy selection and modification of Colors. It's the ideal tool for PowerPoint®, website and application developers.
Office Image Exporter 1.1from Rinasoft can help you recover original image files. Office Image exporter can remove images from PowerPoint© presentations, Word© documents and PDF's. Images can be saved as JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIFF.
NXPowerLite radically reduces the size of your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. It's fast, effective and incredibly easy to use. Simply drag your PowerPoint file onto the NXPowerLite icon, choose your compression level and click on the 'Optimize' button. NXPowerLite will automatically search through your presentation, finding ways to optimize the content. With NXPowerLite, you can focus on creating a great presentation. There's no need to manually tweak your images, or flatten any embedded objects, saving you a great deal of time and effort. Optimized PowerPoint presentations lessen the load on corporate communication networks, decrease the chances of oversized emails being returned and reduce bandwidth costs for people that regularly transfer PowerPoint presentations over the web.
KIBase Power Pointer is a tool that makes your presentation more effective and attractive.
Feature list of Power Pointer–
Mark and erase ink annotations quickly on your slides
Add comment to your slides during presentation
Magnify anything in your slides to make everyone see clear
Show Task Bar by clicking a button
Pick your slides vividly and quickly
Set the tool automatically hide up when it starts
Change the opacity of the tool's windows
See how long has been spent for your slides by click the clock
Customize the tool according to your own way