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Microsoft said Thursday that it will introduce new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications when the company launches its Office 12 software package next year. Company officials said the move to replace Microsoft’s traditional binary file formats with open-standards-based XML versions will allow companies using Office 12 to more easily access data across XML’s various applications.
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Apple has released Keynote 2.0.2, a maintenance update to its PowerPoint-compatible presentation software (part of the iWork suite). The new release eliminates a potential vulnerability where maliciously modified Keynote presentation could be constructed to retrieve files from the local system.
Read more on the MacFixIt site.
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For most of their 20 years, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents have had free rein within corporate walls. But with the advent of federal record-keeping regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which impose strict rules on how companies manage and archive information, those freewheeling days are nearly at an end.
Learn how Microsoft is coping with this change.
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Griffin AirClick USB ($40) is a small, well-designed remote control that works on both Macs and PCs. Its strength is remotely controlling songs on iTunes on both platforms, allowing you to fast forward and rewind, play the next or previous tune, or pause/play. It can also control the volume. The tiny remote can also control PowerPoint and Windows Media Player 10 on the PC platform, and DVD Player, Keynote, PowerPoint 2004, QuickTime Player, and the VLC (VideoLAN Client) media player on the Mac.
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Although PowerPoint has a plethora of options as far as creating infographics is concerned, there are umpteen ways of making better infographics outside PowerPoint. Microsoft offers Visio as an interesting option – but then Visio is an enterprise-level product more geared towards large organizations rather than everyday PowerPoint users. If you identify with this situation and want a product with a reasonable amount of choices and possibilities, you might want to look at ConceptDraw.
Read the Indezine review of ConceptDraw.
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