I am running MS Office 97 and have been asked to do a presentation which will involve superimposing one picture on top of another. Essentially what I want to do is show a photograph of a person and then superimpose some prison bars over the top of the photo so the 'prisoner' can ...

I try to automate external PowerPoint presentation from my programm.
This presentation slides contain many animation shapes. I want to do
something after all animations in current slide have finished, but I
don't know exact time, when this event occured. I tryed to play with

Hi people,
perhaps someone can help me out here.
I'm currently developing an ActiveX DLL (in VB6) that will take a text
string and paste it as a comment on a powerpoint slide (Powerpoint 2000).

Say you have 2 text boxes grouped.  Can you still go into
each one and edit the text, without Ungrouping them?
Thanks in advance.

How do I initilize the combo box in slide?

I've been working on a powerpoint presentation for my US history class.
I've encountered a problem and I can't figure out how to solve it.  I'm
hoping someone will be able to tell me what to do.
I want to insert songs into the presentation.  I've downloaded them off the

Hi. I am creating a presentation with VB textboxes and
sounds. When I try to save it, it says "There is an
active inserted or linked object that can't be saved
automatically. Please close the object first." I really

With PowerPoint 2003 and Win 2000 we have certain files
that will print an image that instead of being one at
100%, is being repeated in it's space.  An image might be
replicated 10 times but it will be scaled and placed in

It still won't work. If I start the show from the first slide the song starts on it will play the whole song but if I start from the very beginning it won't.

Using PP 2003 XP. I had some info and links, but seem to
have lost it. Where can I find tips to make an image
(jpeg) apprear using the mouse over feature and disappear
when you move the mouse off the image area?

I would like for each slide to reamin on screen for 3-4 seconds after all animation is complete.  I have tried everything, but the slides keep advancing immediately after the last animation if finished.  I've looked in the manuals, tried "help" both in the program and on this ...

Is there a way to automatically have powerpoint  file open up into a
slideshow and also be in full view?

I asked this in the FP group, and was refered here. So here it goes.
How can I make a PPT slide show with a music background play in a browser
from my site? I know this can be done, and it is driving me crazy because I
can't get it to work :( I want it to download and start when the ...

I have a diagram that starts at Stage 1 and does a few animations to get to the end of a stage 1 migration
I then want to copy that final diagram to use for another slide as the start of Stage 2
In other words, I want to copy an animated slide at a point in time to use for a new ...

I have not figured out how (if at all) keywords can be attached to individual slides, or whether it is possible to search across multiple presentations for individual slides by keyword match.  I am finding it a great challenge to keep track of various teaching slides spread ...