Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office is a family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketing term for an office suite (bundled set of productivity applications), the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand. On July 10, 2012, Softpedia reported that Office is used by over a billion people worldwide.
ActivePresentation
However, when Microsoft launched their 64 bit version of Microsoft Office, some of the key controls used by ActivePresentation Designer were not upgraded to be 64 bit compatible. This led to the need to redesign the product from the ground up and ActivePRez was released on 1 April 2014. The new version not only added compatibility for 64 bit versions of PowerPoint but also added a number of new features including user definable templates (without code), links to Custom Shows, files and URLs plus a Wizard to quickly generate menus from and existing presentation.Since ActivePrez content is contained as standard shape objects within the existing PowerPoint file formats, there are no specific file format associations with an PowerPoint file created with ActivePrez and the formats supported are therefore a subset of those provided in the PowerPoint application software.