I want to play an .avi file in a presentation, but I
can't! When i try to run the presentation, the movies
appears for a split second but i turns black afterwards.
I can play the movie seperated in media-player, and the

I am cutting and pasting objects from Visio into Powerpoint. The
problem I have is that the size and position of these objects is
always different.
I need a way to make sure that each time I cut and paste a series of

Own Microsoft Office 2000 Premium and recently purchased
Office XP; both upgrade programs.  Had to buy new portable
computer which has MS Windows XP home, but does not have
any MS Office products on original configuration, hence I

If your video's fail to run then PowerPoint 2000 may not support the
player media file your trying to run. Try another version of the same
media and if it doesn't work either try another type of media for the
file. You might try to save the clip as another type of media.

I was giving a presentation with my new Dell Projector to a several school classes, and during the third presentation, the "next Page" button caused my ppt presentation to zip through at the speed of sound on its own (as if the button was stuck).  Dell told me it was a powerpoint ...

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I'm really frustrated with Powerpoint; I recorded voice with music in the background; then I choose about 100 slides, and text to go with it, animated them appropriately and then "rehearsed times" so that I would synchronize the sound file with the actual slide presentation. ...

I have to get data from excel to powerpoint.  I have a range of data in excel that needs to go to a predefined chart data in powerpoint.  How can I do this.  I want to automate this process but not link it.
Excel takes a range from sheetA.  It then opens Powerpoint gets the ...

I am getting the above message when I try to open a file using the "Open"
command in PowerPoint 2000 (this is a new phenomenon).  The file browser
popup window opens briefly, then closes and I get the above message.
Clicking "OK" leads to another message:  "An error occurred while ...

Is there any method of setting an absolute font size in office 2000
Organisational chart?
I can find a switch anywhere - It rescales the font according to chart
size - grrrrrrr

I'm a real newbie at this. I need to take a slide presentation I've put
together and ftp everything to my web page, so that I can have a slide show
for someone to click on and display. How do I prepare the file for this. It
is a very simple show; black background with type and then ...

I need some help.  I have a self running presentation in
which I am trying to run 2 media files simultaneously.  
The first is a sound recorded file which is set to run for
7 slides.  The second is a video file which is set to run

I'm putting Visio Files into a Powerpoint Presentation.  The
presentations are becoming very large.  Is there a way to save the PPT
files such that they are very small (files are currently 20 MG, I'd
like them to be less than 1 MB).

Every time I attempt to insert a chart into a slide, get
the same message "installing MS Project", this happens in
Excel as well. Ideas?

I want to make a small html file imbeded in a Power Point slide using Office 2000
I want the slide to show a small on-screen crawl similar to a news Headlines on the bottom of a TV screen.  I'm not satisfied with the crawl animation feature in Power Point.  I've made the html file ...