Using Powerpoint 2003.
I have a presentation with 196 slides, where most slides have a
picture inserted from a file.
All these pictures must be resized, and the origin changed to the same

Using Powerpoint 2003.
I have a presentation with 196 slides, where most slides have a
picture inserted from a file.
All these pictures must be resized, and the origin changed to the same

I was wondering if it was possible to change the default layout on a
Powerpoint document permanently.  I want the layout to be Legal rather
than Letter, but if I ever close the document and reopen it, it always
defaults to letter.  Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance!

I'm familiar with indenting in Word.
I see that PowerPoint doesn't allow the flexibility of
Word.
One big difference is that the indent markers apply to the

Is there anyway to switch PowerPoint out of multiple document interface
(MDI) mode and into single document interface (SDI)?  With just about any
other Office application (e.g., Excel, Publisher, Access, Visio, FrontPage)
a new apparent instance of a the application can be ...

Is there a way to have a text box fill that is translucent where u can see
both the background and the background of the textbox and the same time with
the text still showing. any help plz? anyone?

Hi All,
I hope someone can help me with this.  I've created a
self-running PowerPoint demo (that runs in Kiosk mode).  
The presentation works great when I run it from the full

how to i embed an AVI movie into powerpoint.  or how to i
keep the links from breaking when i move the PPT file
around?
id much rather embed, but any thing that keeps it playing

(I use PPt XP)
I wrote a procedure that finds manually added formatting (fonts) in my
presentation. It works (a bit).
((Minor problems to be solved:

I am trying to automate the display of a slide show in Powerpoint:
1) In my application, I have Next and Previous buttons, and a current
slide and total slides indicator. I want to disable the Previous
button if I am on the first slide, and disable the Next button if I am

I'm an new to powerpoint, but I am a seasoned VB programmer.  The oddest
thing is happening.  I create a button and double-click the button so that
the _Click() event is created.  I add code to the event such as msgbox "hello
world".  If I run the presentation, it works as ...

After I've had some research in microsoft.public.powerpoint, I found
this code written by Shyam Pillai to extract Powerpoint speaker notes to
 a text file.
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I accidentally choose to use not to always ask before downloading a file when
exporting a document and need to know how to reverse that option.

I have a spread sheet of data which I have created several pivot tables from.
I have then copy pasted the data in to a selection of Powerpoint slides that
I have created.
I want to know is there a way to be able to just update my master

I want to cover parts of a picture with rectangles that I
then animate to disappear to reveal appropriate parts of
the picture when I want to do so.  I've done this, and
instead of disappearing, the slide comes on with them