You do not need to make PPT visible provided you are doing automation
correctly taking into account that the window is not visible. Could you post
your code?

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Shyam Pillai
Animation Carbon
http://www.AnimationCarbon.com
> This issue has been around since at least Office 95, I can't believe MS
> hasn't fixed it. WTF!!
> Come on, how hard is it to create a wrapper around ShowWindow inuser32
> and hide it for us!?!?!?!?!?!