I want to be able to set up my presentation to run with my voice narrating.

I've been trying to record a narration for a presentation.  The quality of
the sound, using an appropriate microphone and sound card, is appalling --
there is all kinds of background fuzz.
This is not a hardware problem.  I can use the same hardware to record a

I am looking to convert a sales presentation which is currently being
filled manually will all sales figures.  I would like convert this into
a dynamic presentation, which would be connected to a SQL database, and
all sales figures be generated when the presentation or slide loads.

A few questions, to see if selfcert is the best option for me, before I
spend too much time on a potential dead end....
(1) Do I have to actively apply the certification each time I save it, or
will PPT do it automatically once the certificate is associated with that

hi i was wondering if i had to pay for downloads. i wanted to dowload
microsoft power point and microsoft word. do i have to pay?????

I am creating a PowerPoint presentation that will be used as a template for
all of our sales people.  They may want to alter text and add slides with new
text and bullet points etc.  
I want to be able lockthe text styles (font, min size, title font size &

How do I set up barkground music forthe entire duration of my PowerPoint
presentation?

How do I convert a pdf document to powerpoint?

I'm working in PowerPoint 2003 on presentations I receive from third
parties (don't know what version of PowerPoint was originally used - is
there a way to tell?).  I insert comments and forward the .ppt files to
others who look at them with PowerPoint 2000.  The Reviewing toolbar ...

-- this is so basic I hesitate to ask, but it is driving me crazy. I
downloaded and installed a bunch of templates from the microsoft website. Now
how do I find them? They aren't showing up anywhere. Usually, like for
example in Word, I would go to File, New, etc. and pick a form ...

When I do a ppt "reharse timings" it stores all the times for individual
slides. Is it possible to write a macro/VB code so that I can access these
individual times?
I wanted the sum of the timings for a range of slides.

I can't turn the pen on during a slide show, have tried all methods so think
it must be disabled, I can't find where to enable it.  Can anyone help
please?  Thankyou.

OK, I am going to give you the long story first, thent the simple
question afterwards.
I work for a church, and thought it would be a good idea to write a
program to handle the Poewr Point presentations we do (words to songs,

Does anyone know a script for a textbox to change it's content by the clock?
I mean, for a presentation I need a text box to tell 'tomorrow' when the
presentation is shown before 12.00 AM. After 12.00 AM (or 12.00 PM?) the
text box should say 'day after tomorrow'. And then after ...

Ok, there is an Excel Data file on a shared drive on our network, this
file has data in it and excel charts...
My Boss, put together a PowerPoint Presentation and imported the Excel
charts into powerpoint with the links active, so that if there is a