My Autorecover setting in PowerPoint is automatically disabled. This has
occured a number of times.
I enable auto-recover, it stayes enabled for a while, and then later will be
disabled. It is not clear what event triggers the disable. This has happaned

After creating a table in Power Point, and populating some of the cells with
numerical data....can I sum the values of the cells like you can in Excel
with the "=SUM(c1..." formula?
Thx,

When i try to paste a screen image captured into the clipboard into
powerpoint 2003, nothing happens. Instead a workaround is to paste the same
way but in excel and then i select this image and paste again in power point
2003 and then it works. Is there a way i can copy the image ...

I have a presentation with some TIF images. On my system (running PPT 2003),
the images show up fine (there are 5 of them). However, another user is
getting a white box where those images should be onscreen (they do print for
her however). Is this a setting on her system? or mine ...

Since we've updated to PPT 2002, we've been having problems with a char
we use quite often.  It's a line graph wherein groups of 2 points shoul
be connected, and there should be no lines between the pairs of points.
Typically, across the x axis we have "Previous time period" and ...

Does anybody knows how do I mix the set up slideshow "Browsed at a Kiosk"
with "Presented by a speaker" ?

Has anyone compiled any lists of things to beware
of/incompatibilities/gotchas when upgrading from PPT 2000 to 2002/2003?  Any
pointers greatly appreciated...TIA
Chuck

i am adding pictures in a loop and would like to add them to a
collection so i can go in any time to an individual picture in the loop
and delete or put it again
for example, adding 10 pictures (1...10) and then go back to picture

Is it possible to determine programmatically if any version of
Powerpoint (and which version) is installed on a PC? Also if there is
any version (and which version) of the Viewer is installed? I am
planning an installation to many PCs and would prefer NOT to ask the

I am running PowerPoint Pro 2003 on XP Pro SP2.
I have a presentation in which I am trying hyperlink the text in an "Agenda"
slide to content slides further down in the deck.
When I open the Hyperlink dialogue only some of the slides are shown in the

Hey everyone...I received an interesting request from the sales team last
week. They want me to create a map of our locations (which I have already
done) that when they hover over a location, it shows them the city and state
of the location. Does anyone know if there is any way ...

*To see my replies to some kind users' questions, please see bottom of
message.
This is Jeremy. I am using Windows XP Home Edition SP2, Vers 2002;
Microsoft Office 2002 (Microsoft Office XP).

Friends: I type text in a text box. After that I rotate the box becomes
vertical. However, now the text cannot be read for it has the same color as
the background. If I put it back to horizontal, the text can be seen again.
Why is it so? How to resolve this? Thanks.

I would like to have my PowerPoint presentation be able to start Excel and
run a macro on it. I would like for this to occur after a certain slide has
been reached. Is this possible?

I am using PPT 2003 and am having difficulty getting sound to be in sync with
points as they appear in the presentation. The sound occurs after the point  
sentence appears. I had no difficulty with this at all using PPT 97
but am baffled here.