Any tips on how to reduce over .ppt file size? Egs recommended graphic
formats, insert a picture vs copy & paste it

Is it just me or are the cusom object animation fades silky smooth,
while the fade transitions between slides are jerky and rough? I've
worked on many different PCs and the slide transition fades are never
smooth, so I have stopped using them. The only time I've seen smooth

A card or flyer for 50th. anniv that can have a picture on it.

When I select view slideshow, click on slide I receive the following
error.ERROR - ' POWER POINT CANNOT CREATE A HYPERLINK TO ^O'.
This happens to all .ppt documents.
Thanks

I do Power Point presentatins.  I usuallky create them on my Mac or
Windows 98 machine and save to a floppy, and then present them on a
Windows 2000 presentation machine at my university.  (Unfortunately I do
not have a burner, nor a USB flash drive.  But floppies work okay for

I have two presentations (say A and B) that I publish as HTML and that
link
* internally to different slides
* externally to each other

I am accessing the properties of the borders of a table
inserted within ppt
presentation but facing this very annoying problem.
Whenever i access any property related to the borders of

All,
I'm having the following problem:
I'm using vba/vbscript to automate a Powerpoint 2003 document. One of my
slides has a powerpoint "table", and I use vba/vbscript to load text into the

I'm creating a title seaquence on MS Powerpoint to put into a video editing
program. Can I convert the slideshow to an avi file so that I can open it
using the video editing software?

I have created a presentation and want to burn it to a cd.  When I do this,
it will not play any of the videos in it. I have copied a folder of videos
along with this.  Here is the file structure.  
c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\presentation\videos

I need to know if Powerpoint 2003 for Windows presentations can be used on
computers that do not have any version of powerpoint installed on them?

I need to be able to identify the PowerPoint presentation containing the
macro that is currently running.  In Excel I used ThisWorkbook which would
always return the workbook in which the code is running.  Is there a similar
command in PowerPoint or a way to identify the ...

Does anyone know how to access a cell from Excel and
translate the contents of that cell to text/String?
i.e. if Cell B1 contains "Apple", how can you get the
String "Apple" from Cell B1 after you pasted it in PP.

Here's what I want to do.
On the Jeopardy game, the upper 6 TV's on the Jeopardy board slide (Slide 3)
show the categories.
What I have now is slides 30-36 which show each TV one by one.

Does anyone have or know of anywhere I can get basic user instructions for
PowerPoint 2000.
By basic I mean simply creating stiled, adding bullet points, playing
slideshows. I need to train some of my staff and was wondering if anyone has