Out of the box, Microsoft builds little or no integration or relationships within PowerPoint to other Microsoft Office applications. To provide a quick example, PowerPoint users have nothing close to the mail merge options in Word or Outlook that can access data from an Excel or database source. And that’s sort of sad, since PowerPoint is one application that can act as a glue to all sorts of content — from text to pictures, and movies to charts! Our review product, PPT Merge does try to cover this vacuum — does it succeed?

