Does anyone know of a way to pause and start sound in a presentation.
I have made a 2003 presentation to distribute to CD but need uses to
be able to choose whether or not they hear sound.
Any help most welcome

I am using PowerPoint 2000 SP3 on a Windows 2000 Pro SP3
machine.
First, I have a path problem when trying to view an
existing presentation (done by somebody else): a slide

Issue is when I try to insert music files as part of a presentation, whether it be MP3, WMA, WAV etc. only some tracks seem to work. When I have inserted a track that doesn't work, the icon appears as per usual, and I can adjust parameters such as start & stop timing however, the ...

I am creating an animated presentation, and want the
graphic to appear to explode before it is replaced by
another.  Any suggestions on how I can make this happen?  
I've tried all the other animation effects available, but

Curious,
If I were to use some of the add-ins offered in this
forum on my desktop, do the attrributes carry-over to
someone elses desktop? For instance - I saw one add-in to

Can you create non-printing objects in PowerPoint 2003?
I want to put instructions for how to fill out a slide right on the
slide, so the person filling it out has "online" instructions. I can't
use the notes, because they contain content for printed distribution.

I was thinking of upgrading to office 2002 solely to get password protection
on powerpoint files.  Just looking for some advice here.
Does anyone know how good the protection is?  Does it prevent people from
printing the presentation?

When I send a PPT to Web (paste link and blank lines under slides) the
size of the slides in the Word doc default to 75%. Is there any way
that I can change this default size to 100% besides manually resizing
each slide?

Can anyone give me a rundown of the pros and cons of using Powerpoint to
 put a presentation on the web rather than using a series of simple
HTML pages with a link to the next page on each one?   It would be nice
to use some of Powerpoint's animations but it's by no means vital ...

Problem:
Need to see mouse pointer at all the time in presentation
PowerPoint 2003 automatically hides mouse pointer.
Found no setting except pen setting in slide show for

When I click on the shortcut the Powerpoint logo appears then disappears
then nothing else happens.  Powerpnt.exe is in the processes list but not in
applications.  What's causing this?  I have several machinces with the same
problem.

When I copy and paste a chart from Excel with vertical
text at bottom of chart,(dates), to Powerpoint, the text
is not legible. It looks fine and prints fine in Excel.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using PowerPoint 2002xp and windows 2000.  In
Freelance I could create my own click here boxes.  I can't
seem to find out how you do this in PowerPoint.
I would appreciate any help.

I'm running PPT 2003 on XP.
I have a presentation where one bitmap graphic has been rotated. When I
try to output it to a PDF, using the Acrobat printer or outputing a
PostScript file and using Distiller, I get the same crappy results. It

Can I insert a PDF file into a PowerPoint?  Right now I'm taking a snapshot
in PDF and pasting it into my PPT slide, but I'm thinking there must be a
better way...
any suggestions?