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A new zero-day exploit was disclosed over the weekend for an unpatched flaw in Microsoft’s PowerPoint software, which could allow for an attacker to take complete control of an affected system and run arbitrary code. Although details on the exploit are scant, it is known the malware that is distributing the exploit is a trojan horse.
Read more on the BetaNews site…
Meanwhile, you may want to know what a zero-day exploit for PowerPoint is?
A zero-day exploit for PowerPoint is a malicious code that takes advantage of a previously unknown vulnerability in the PowerPoint software. This means that the software developer, has no knowledge of the vulnerability, and therefore, no patch or fix exists to protect against it. As time goes by, such vulnerabilities are found and are fixed.
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PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Malware, PowerPoint
Probably the only thing more boring than text-filled slides is to endure a series of slides with figures in tables — something that looks like a screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet!
And since PowerPoint’s version of animated charts are so omnipresent, you might want to create your charts in another program and then bring them inside PowerPoint.
Rich Chart Builder, the product we are reviewing can help.
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Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Animation, Charting, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash
No matter how bad you think your presentation has been, take some comfort from the fact that at least it wasn’t as bad as these stories.
Read more on the Microsoft UK site.
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Case Studies
Tagged as: Case Studies, Opinion, PowerPoint
It has happened to us all. You are sitting in a PowerPoint presentation trying – and probably failing – not to yawn as slide after slide flashes across the screen. You may blame your boredom on the speaker, but Edward Tufte has another explanation. Microsoft PowerPoint, he believes, is a badly designed medium for communicating the information people need to make informed decisions. That is why it is so dull.
Tufte reckons that the bottom 10 percent of speakers probably benefit from using PowerPoint because it at least “forces them to have points,” and that the top 10 percent are able to overcome its limitations. As for the remaining 80 percent, he suggests that these speakers print their thoughts on paper handouts instead.
Alice Rawsthorn discusses more on the International Herald Tribune site.
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Tagged as: Case Studies, Death by PowerPoint, Edward Tufte, Opinion, PowerPoint
Baltimore County prosecutor James O’C. Gentry Jr. had photographs, medical records and three weeks of trial testimony about a 9-year-old girl who was starved and beaten to death, but no idea how to pull it all together into a compelling closing argument for jurors. He found the answer from an unexpected source: his sister, who worked at the time as a consultant making PowerPoint presentations to private companies.
Read more on the Baltimore Sun site.
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Case Studies
Tagged as: Case Studies, Legal, PowerPoint
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