I am using Power Point 2003. I have a small file (ppt) that I want to
open as a pps when double clicked. Even though I save it as a pps, it
continues to open in the ppt format. I have tried several times to
save it as pps to no avail. I'm sure it was made in an earlier version

Does anyone know a short cut to view the master slide?
thanks

Hello.  I am having a problem using a hyperlink that then
takes me to a custom show in my presentation.  I have
done this before in other presentations without problem,
but in this one presentation, it just doesn't seem to

I want to insert sound on my presentation. What is the
best way to get wav songs to play in the back so my
presentation doesn't get so big?.  I tried putting a song
from a CD but my project went from 4MB to 50MB, I know

Has anyone found a fix for MS PowerPoint crashing when annotating on a
PowerPoint presentation using a Tablet PCs' Ink Annotation's functionalities?
Very frustrating when MS PowerPoint is very unstable and unreliable on a
Tablet PC.  Thanks.

I have a presentation that I would like to do following
When presenting a slide show, I would like for the coloured background
to remain.
And when printing it in colour, I would like for it not print the

Is there a way one can add a comment at a point on a slide
that will become visible when pointed or mouseover?. This
is the facility that exists in Excel. I tried embedding
the worksheet with cel comment but doesn't work in Power

I have powerpoint 2003 on a toshiba satellite laptop,
995MHz  240ram, with windows xp professional. When I load
and edit a powerpoint file, the program takes up 95-99% of
the CPU cycles even when I am doing nothing on powerpoint

Is there a way to insert a realtime stopwatch in ppt slide......
-Niraj

Other places to look for "MS09.DLL ERROR": IN Powerpoint..also can't type hit
keys nothing happens

i created a word document with text boxes and inserted pictures from my
files.  i saved the document on my c drive as well as on a floppy.  i printed
the document as well.  when i attempted to open the document later i keep
getting the message

In Office 2000, I could insert a picture from Power Point to Word under the
command (paste special as a "picture").  Now, under Office 2003, I have many
picture file types to insert the picture from, such as enhanced metafile or
windows metafile, none of which have the same ...

I have been inserting movies into PowerPoint for ages and all has been fine.
I bought a new computer and now when I play a movie it suddenly switches to
"full screen" mode on the data projector. The screen goes blue for 5 second
or so and all I then see is the movie - not the ...

I am an experienced user of PP (I use XP in Windows 2000) but I had a  
problem this morning that I do not understand.
I have a  title and bullet list slide. I'd like to alter the font size in  
the bullet list (increase). So I clicked on the font increase button (a  

My main question is: is there a way to export data from an OLE that is
an excel spreadsheet from a slide in PowerPoint?
Here is a brief description of what we do each week. First we have
mechanics do their work and as they work they enter their information