When I try to open a presentation I get the following
message "PowerPoint can't open the type of file
represented by filename.ppt". The presentation work the
day before.

Just upgraded to Office 2003. When I try to open some
powerpoints from previous versions, I get the error
message: Powerpoint can't read <filename>.ppt.
Please help!

Hi.  I want to build a presentation where I can insert an explanatory comment or field for certain objects that would be displayed on the presentation when the mouse passes over the object.  
Thank You

I have built an application that creates an ppt files. Now i want ot
give facility to add sound files to that ppt. How can i do it?

I have a powerpoint presentation which has 22 slides. I
have add music that plays during the entire presentation.
All works fine till I get to slide 20, then the music and
the slide show stops. Any idea what might be wrong. I

I know this has probably been asked (and answered) heaps
of times, but I can't work out how to turn track changes
on so that people can see where I have edited the
slides.  I know when I send the presentation to word that

Does anyone know how to execute an *.exe file in Powerpoint presentation. Is
it possible at all?
I would like to insert a flash presentation into one slide (and operate on
it). There is a number of swf. files and one exec. If I start it (flash.exe)

In the Broadcast Add-in it requires to specify a "shared file location" where can I learn more about this issue?

I need a map of the USA for a ppt presentation.  I want to highlight
certain states. I have the US outline map. How can I highlight it or
are there other solutions.
Thanks

I am using ppt 2002 with Win XP Professional as the OS.  My problem is
similar to that mentioned by Suneet Mittal and posted on 7/15.  I use the
the same commands to insert an avi file but when playing the move by
double-clicking or in Slide Show mode I get a white background where ...

I have recently built a website using Frontpage 2003 in conjunction with a powerpoint presentation with picture slides and audio.  I cannot get the presentation to work properly when I upload them to my website.  The audio does not work.  Any suggestions?
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Several colleagues and I are having a similar problem with
PowerPoint, both in PPT 2000 & PPT 2003/XP. We can install
and play movie files in our powerpoint slides,and they
work fine on the computer, but as soon as you put the

I call Presentation.Open filename, true, , false and I get a dialog that says the following..
"If you are planning on sending this presentation back to the original author, you may want your changes to be marked as revisions.  Revision marks indicating your edits will appear when ...

We are making poster in PowerPoint using the data charts summarized in Excel.
We have 6 chart (all in the same sheet), I align them according to the x axis (the all have the same scale of x axis), and group them as one object.
But when I insert that object in PowerPoint, I lost the ...

Could somebody tellme how I can Zoom-In / Zoom-Out of the contents placed in
my slides. I know that I can Use the Zoom Add-in.. Is there any way around
apart from this?? Thanks!!
Mallinath