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7/19/2010

How to Prolong the Grace Period of Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010, which became available for retail as well as online purchase on June 15, has various new features and improvements including extended file format support, user interface updates and a refined user experience.

As a saying goes, "the better the quality of the merchandise, the higher the price." Many users would shrink back at the sight of the high price. Fortunately, after the installment of Microsoft Office 2010, thirty days of free evaluation period will be granted to the users, who want to extend the grace period as long as possible before having to activate the product for lifetime continuous usage.

Office 2010 also contains a so-called rearming function that gives you thirty extra days to activate the program. Do you know that the command can be used up to five times? In other words, this popular productivity suite can be rearmed five times, which means 5 x 30 = 150 days plus the original 30 days, it will give you a total of 180 days. It is almost half a year!

It is necessary to state that extending the grace period is not illegal, because "rearm" is an official feature that was made for the corporate users. Nevertheless, the "trick" has been widely publicized online to regular home users and Microsoft seems okay with it. That is the reason that I could share the nice tip with you to prolong the testing period.

1. Open elevated command prompt. To do this, you can:

A. Type CMD in Start menu search box, and hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter.

B. Go to Start menu, All Programs - Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator option.

2. Run OSPPREARM tool from command prompt. To do it, you need to enter the full path of OSPPREARM in the elevated Command Prompt. Generally, it is located in "C:/Program Files/Common Files/microsoft shared/OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform" folder (where "C" is your Windows drive letter). However, if you have installed 32-bit Office in 64-bit Windows, it is located in "Program Files (x86)".

3. Type the full path (you can also copy and paste the full path) of the OSPPREARM file in the elevated Command Prompt and hit Enter.

4. Exit the Command Prompt.

5. You are done, but you should remember that this command could only be used up to five times.

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7/18/2010

How to Play a Sound across Multiple Slides in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Adding music to a PowerPoint presentation will not only give your presentation more appeal but grab the attention of the audience as well.
If you are using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007/2003, please click here to learn the corresponding tutorial.
For this tutorial, we will be using state-of-art Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Windows Edition. If you do not have PowerPoint 2010, you can download the free 30-day trial here.
After you are all ready to go with PowerPoint, go ahead and launch it from the start menu or by double-clicking the PowerPoint icon on your desktop. If you are starting a new project, type a title in for your presentation. If you want to add music to an existing presentation, open it by clicking the File button then Open at the top left corner.
Next, you will need to make sure that you have an audio file ready to sync with your presentation.
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Click the Insert tab located along the top PowerPoint toolbar. Then, locate the Audio icon, located on the far right of the lower toolbar, and click the arrow below it to bring down the sub menu.
From here, you will notice the options: Audio from File, Clip Art Audio, and Record Audio. You can choose whichever option you prefer. For this presentation, we will be using the Audio from File option. Therefore, we will need to navigate to our audio file and click the OK button.
Click the small speaker representing the audio file you have inserted, and the Audio Tools interface displays. Click the Playback icon.

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Select the Play across slides option from the submenu of Start on the right side of Volume.
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Select the Animation Pane option under the Animations tab. Right-click the audio file in the emerging Animation Pane window on the left, and select Effect Options from the drop-down list.
Then the Play Audio interface appears. In the Effect tab, make your choice at Stop Playing-After XXX slides.
After you have done testing your music, you can hit the esc key to exit the slide show.
That’s all there is to it. You should have now easily added sound to your PowerPoint presentation.