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PowerPoint’s Mouseover Malware Trojan Horse

Trend Micro released a comprehensive blog post that talks about a trojan horse malware triggered by PowerPoint’s Mouse-Over action setting. This action setting can run a PowerPoint macro. OK, this is not as bad as it may sound. Why? I can think of three good reasons.

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Pivot Tables in PowerPoint: by Kasper Langmann

One of the most commonly used features in Microsoft Excel is the Pivot Table. A Pivot Table simply allows you to make better sense of data by giving you different options of how to view that data. Even more exciting than that, you can use a Pivot Table with all its interactive features within a Microsoft PowerPoint slide.

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Jeopardy-Like PowerPoint Template (25 Questions)

Want to play a Jeopardy-like game using PowerPoint slides? Yes, this is absolutely doable but making PowerPoint slides with all the interactivity and layouts takes too much work. Fortunately, we have done the work for you. Just download our Jeopardy-like 25 (5x5) question PowerPoint template, replace the placeholders provided for questions, answers, and categories - and you're done! You'll still need a real human being to track scores - and you could soon be playing this amazing game as part of a fun exercise, a training program, or even a quiz show.

This template is entirely Theme aware. Change your Theme colors and fonts - and everything automatically updates. We tested this template in both Windows (2007, 2010, and 2013) and Mac (2008 and 2011) versions of PowerPoint.

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Video Compression Options

Recent versions of PowerPoint accept more video file formats than previous versions and can do a lot more with videos, including trimming of video clips. However, it also embeds all inserted video clips by default, and this can result in huge presentations that contain huge video files! This ultimately occupies oodles of disk space and may also make PowerPoint work a wee bit slower. To tackle this problem, you can explore the media compression abilities built right inside PowerPoint. You no longer need any third-party media compression tool since PowerPoint's native Media Compression options make this task very easy indeed.

Insert Video from OneDrive

Our next option within the Insert Online Video series is inserting video from OneDrive. OneDrive is an online service which allows you to store files online – it also allows you to work on Microsoft Office web applications such as PowerPoint Online, where you can create and edit presentations. Remember that you will have to first sign in with your Microsoft account.

Insert Video from YouTube

PowerPoint provides various sources which allow you to insert online video within your slide. We have already explained how to insert video from OneDrive. In this tutorial, we'll cover how you can insert video from YouTube. Follow these steps to learn how to use the YouTube option to insert a video within PowerPoint 2016.

Insert Video Using Video Embed Code

The next option in our Insert Online Video series is inserting video from a Video Embed Code. Here you can use the embed code from any site and paste into Insert Video dialog box to insert the video clip into your slide. Technically, this option should work with YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and most other sites.

Insert Video from Facebook

The last option within our tutorials of the Insert Online Video series is bringing in videos from Facebook. There is a prerequisite though. To insert video from your Facebook account, you must add Facebook as a connected Service within your Microsoft account.

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