Is there a way, in lieu of a macro, to change the default suggested layout
for a new slide or new presentation for PowerPoint 2000 - 2003. I'd like to
have the Blank Slide Layout as the default. Thanks for any assistance.

I am creating a very large presentation that includes hyperlinks that will
allow a presenter to jump to many different slides out of sequence in the way
they are ordered in the file.
I would like to create a macro that could be initiated by clicking on an

How do I remove borders from autoshapes - only appears when I print preview
in black and white.  I've changed the line color to none, to white, and
nothing!  It still appears.

In every type of format I save in, my music file will not email with my
project. I saved the music file as a windows media player file and that
didn't work either. It works on my pc but no one else is getting it. The size
is 5 MB. I also changed my embedded size to 50,000 to see ...

I was sent, via email, a standard excel file with a small table contained in
it. I am running Office 2002 and when I try to copy a the table and past it
into powerpoint, the computer reacts as though it is frozen and does not
respond. If i leave it for a few minutes, It will ...

I am very new at PowerPoint, so please excuse my stupidity.  I have a
Powerpoint Presentation and a separate .AVI file to create some animation
that I would like to send to some prospects.  I am assuming that they will
not have PowerPoint on their computers.  I would like them to ...

PowerPoint 2003.  I have inserted an Excel spreadsheet in a PowerPoint
presentation.  However, when I display the slide, faint gray borders show
around each cell.  This is despite the fact that the cell borders are defined
as "None."  How may I remove these borders or selectively ...

Can I make text appear only when the cursor is over it? I tried to use Action
Button :Help and Action Button :Information but I cannot get these to work. I
am using PowerPoint 2000.

For some annoying reason, when launching an embedded hyperlink,
PowerPoint seems to be taking over instead of the browser & is
launching & trying to render the URL content instead of my browser
doing this.

Trying to run a slide show in 2003 that was created in 97.  When I open the
show, the hyperlink buttons from one slide to another are redirected/changed
from 97.

I have tried to save a Word outline as a PowerPoint presentation (both by
opening outline in PowerPoint and sending outline to PowerPoint from Word),
but every time I try I get "The outline is too long to read in its entirety"
and only the first 249 slides are imported.  I have ...

In Office 2003, how do you remove the boxes from a subordinate, so that just
the text displays.  You could do this using a style in Office 2000.

I've placed a brief Flash movie into a PPS that will be used as a kiosk
slideshow. The Flash movie plays fine during the first run, but when the PPS
loops the Flash movie does not restart — it only sits on the last frame of
the movie.

I am trying to print a flyer in powerpoint. The image is imported as a jpg
file. I am printing to a color printer, and all the settings are to color.
The file previews correctly but when I print only the text shows. I have
tried everything, I did get it to print under grayscale ...

I have a presentation all worked up, and I want to be able to put different
data into it. Specifically, if I create a new set of charts and graphs in
Excel, I want to import them into the PowerPoint document such that they are
displayed rather than what was in there before. (I ...