When I hook my laptop up to a powerpoint projector, I have no audio. When I
go to control panel/sound devices, I am not able to highlight or change
anything. Any Suggestions?

I developed a PPT presentation in PowerPoint 2003. I want to distribute the
file to hundreds of users for them to run from their own PCs.  I do NOT want
to distribute CDs to hundreds of users.
The users do not have PowerPoint 2003 on their PCs and they do not have the

I have powerpoint 2003 and need to open my presentation in powerpoint 2002
for a college course.  Is there any way to do this? I plan on saving my
presentation to a CD.  

Is there ANY viewer or converter available that will allow me to 'play' a
slideshow with ALL the animations and transitions available to me in
PowerPoint 2002?

Is there any way to create a template that also have fixed and locked
text areas on it (text areas with specific fonts and size the user will
not be able to change)
I need to create a template that when a user open it he only need to

I am creating a presentation for a seminar I am putting on. My presentation
is based mostly around questions I ask attendees. While I have my
presentation going, I want to be able to type in the answers I get from the
attendees. Example: Power Point Presentation is running. I ask ...

How do you play only a portion of a sound clip in PowerPoint?  For
example......to use the song "Walk This Way" from Aerosmith, how do you make
the sound clip start just as they say "Walk This Way".

I want to run an animation then navigate to the next slide.  Any hint would
be greatly appreciated

I've completed a powerpoint presentation recently with two songs in it that
play along with the slide show. The first slide of the presentation won't
advance to the second slide. All the other aspects of it work fine, but this
one problem is really starting to get on my nerves. ...

Is there any way to have greater indent control over individual lines in a
place holder?
Presently, whenever I move an indent marker it is applied to all of the
lines in the place holder. Is there any way to prevent the change from

I'm looking for a way to get the value of a linked cell in PowerPoint
so I can hide or unhide slides based on its value.  If location A1 in
Excel contains "TRUE" and I copy this cell to PowerPoint using the
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This may seem a silly question but I have a presentation template in which
I'd like the title of the project on the opening slide to be then
automatically generated into the footer of each add'l slide.
How do I set that up?

QuickTime and a YUV420 codec decompressor are needed to see this picture.
IM getting this when im veiwing an powerpoint slide on windows and its an
tiff file the powerpoint was written on an mac and when viewing on windows
machiene an tif file is displaying this QuickTime and a ...

i'm new to ppt. if i create a ppt on PC, excluding any font issues,
will it run exactly the same on a mac? transitions etc.?

As a Presentation Developer I am looking for a way of preventing others from
"borrowing" animation ideas from my presentations.
I've tried a number of options but none are full-proof. This includes
setting a security password to Modify, a security password to Open won't work