<s>
ActivePrez	O
(	O
formerly	O
ActivePresentation	B-Application
Designer	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
software	O
presentation	O
program	O
developed	O
by	O
YOUpresent	O
(	O
formerly	O
GMARK	O
Ltd	O
.	O
)	O
It	O
is	O
an	O
extension	O
to	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Office	I-Application
PowerPoint	I-Application
software	O
and	O
runs	O
on	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
computer	O
operating	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
primary	O
objective	O
of	O
ActivePrez	O
is	O
to	O
overcome	O
the	O
serial	O
nature	O
of	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
and	O
provide	O
a	O
web	O
like	O
,	O
hierarchical	O
and	O
interactive	O
interface	O
within	O
a	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
slide	O
show	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PowerPoint	B-Application
has	O
become	O
the	O
ubiquitous	O
solution	O
for	O
professionals	O
to	O
present	O
their	O
ideas	O
,	O
companies	O
and	O
products	O
alike	O
to	O
their	O
audience	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
its	O
inception	O
in	O
1984	O
and	O
although	O
purely	O
electronic	O
,	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
has	O
followed	O
the	O
thought	O
process	O
of	O
its	O
physical	O
predecessor	O
,	O
the	O
overhead	B-Device
projector	I-Device
,	O
in	O
which	O
a	O
presenter	O
physically	O
wrote	O
the	O
text	O
and	O
diagrams	O
of	O
the	O
story	O
board	O
sequence	O
on	O
a	O
roll	O
of	O
acetate	O
transparencies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
modern	O
business	O
environments	O
,	O
the	O
audience	O
is	O
often	O
likely	O
to	O
ask	O
questions	O
out	O
of	O
sequence	O
and	O
for	O
a	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
presenter	O
,	O
this	O
can	O
be	O
dealt	O
with	O
in	O
one	O
of	O
three	O
ways	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
second	O
is	O
to	O
rapidly	O
press	O
the	O
Page	B-Device
Down	I-Device
and	O
Page	B-Device
Up	I-Device
keys	I-Device
on	O
the	O
computer	O
keyboard	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
find	O
the	O
slide	O
with	O
the	O
relevant	O
information	O
to	O
answer	O
the	O
question	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
third	O
solution	O
and	O
the	O
least	O
elegant	O
is	O
for	O
the	O
presenter	O
to	O
press	O
the	O
Escape	B-Device
key	I-Device
,	O
which	O
exists	O
the	O
slide	O
show	O
mode	O
in	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
,	O
and	O
manually	O
locate	O
the	O
slide	O
in	O
question	O
followed	O
by	O
a	O
restart	O
of	O
the	O
slide	O
show	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
this	O
context	O
,	O
many	O
pages	O
,	O
often	O
exceeding	O
hundreds	O
or	O
even	O
thousands	O
,	O
are	O
served	O
by	O
a	O
web	B-Application
server	I-Application
but	O
a	O
user	O
only	O
ever	O
retrieves	O
and	O
reads	O
those	O
pages	O
that	O
he/she	O
is	O
interested	O
in	O
during	O
a	O
particular	O
visiting	O
session	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
ActivePrez	O
package	O
adds	O
a	O
layer	O
of	O
interactive	O
navigation	O
to	O
the	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
file	O
structure	O
that	O
in	O
turn	O
presents	O
the	O
user	O
with	O
a	O
navigable	O
in-slide	O
menu	O
bar	O
system	O
comprising	O
a	O
context	B-Application
sensitive	I-Application
user	I-Application
interface	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
original	O
release	O
,	O
ActivePresentation	B-Application
Designer	O
consisted	O
of	O
an	O
open	O
software	B-Architecture
architecture	I-Architecture
that	O
comprises	O
two	O
main	O
components	O
;	O
the	O
application	O
and	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
templates	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ActivePresentation	B-Application
Designer	O
is	O
the	O
application	O
used	O
by	O
presentation	O
authors	O
to	O
create	O
and	O
edit	O
the	O
active	O
content	O
of	O
a	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
presentation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ActivePresentation	B-Application
Templates	O
are	O
the	O
included	O
files	O
that	O
provide	O
the	O
style	O
for	O
a	O
menu	O
bar	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additional	O
templates	O
could	O
be	O
written	O
by	O
VBA	B-Language
or	O
VB	B-Language
developers	O
by	O
following	O
the	O
modular	O
structure	O
of	O
the	O
template	O
architecture	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
when	O
Microsoft	O
launched	O
their	O
64	O
bit	O
version	O
of	O
Microsoft	O
Office	O
,	O
some	O
of	O
the	O
key	O
controls	O
used	O
by	O
ActivePresentation	B-Application
Designer	O
were	O
not	O
upgraded	O
to	O
be	O
64	O
bit	O
compatible	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
new	O
version	O
not	O
only	O
added	O
compatibility	O
for	O
64	O
bit	O
versions	O
of	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
but	O
also	O
added	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
new	O
features	O
including	O
user	O
definable	O
templates	O
(	O
without	O
code	O
)	O
,	O
links	O
to	O
Custom	O
Shows	O
,	O
files	O
and	O
URLs	O
plus	O
a	O
Wizard	O
to	O
quickly	O
generate	O
menus	O
from	O
and	O
existing	O
presentation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
ActivePrez	O
content	O
is	O
contained	O
as	O
standard	O
shape	O
objects	O
within	O
the	O
existing	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
file	O
formats	O
,	O
there	O
are	O
no	O
specific	O
file	O
format	O
associations	O
with	O
an	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
file	O
created	O
with	O
ActivePrez	O
and	O
the	O
formats	O
supported	O
are	O
therefore	O
a	O
subset	O
of	O
those	O
provided	O
in	O
the	O
PowerPoint	B-Application
application	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ActivePrez	O
replaced	O
ActivePresentation	B-Application
Designer	O
on	O
1	O
April	O
2014	O
and	O
is	O
compatible	O
with	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Office	I-Application
PowerPoint	I-Application
2007	I-Application
and	O
64	O
and	O
32	O
bit	O
versions	O
of	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Office	I-Application
PowerPoint	I-Application
2010	O
,	O
2013	O
and	O
later	O
on	O
Windows	O
7	O
,	O
8	O
and	O
later	O
.	O
</s>
