Can Front Row display other applications?

As a teacher, I use PowerPoint a lot, and would love to display my PowerPoint presentations with Front Row. Can Front Row be customized (or something) to display created PowerPoint presentations? Is it possible to add applications to the circle of applications on Front Page's initial screen? Thanks.

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No, it's not possible to add applications to Front Row. It should be possible, however, to export a QuickTime movie of your PowerPoint presentation. You could then play this with the "Videos" module.
-Doug

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