On an XP Professional SP2 workstation with Office XP Sp3.   When ever I try
to insert a picture from file I get a convert image screen asking to convert
the image to bitmap, jpg, etc.  
The image is a jgp file and saved on a network drive mapped  file share.  

How do I show values in a chart, but not have the data appear in the bars or
in the data table?  For example lets say sales in 04 were 100 and in 05 they
are 125.  I want to show two bars, one of 100 and one of 125 and I want to
show a label of 25% above the bars indicating the ...

Does anybody know why it would be that when I add music to my powerpoint
presentations, some songs will play and others will not?

I’m looping through 10 slides in a PowerPoint presentation via automation
where the VBA is written in Excel.  Each slide has two embedded Excel
workbooks that I’m pulling information from.  After my procedure runs, there
is a VBAProject (Book x) listed in the Visual Basic Editor ...

is there a place on the net where I can find a list of functions etc. to
use in Macros?
Thanks

I have a Powerpoint file that will not open. Powerpoint 2003 says it cannot
read the file yet a co-worker can open it in the 2002 version of Powerpoint.
If I look in the folder and view as thumbnails I can see the picture of what
is in the file. Can someone help me open this?

I want to loop some background music across all the slides in my PowerPoint
presentation.  I read in the PowerPoint NoHelp that I should select "Loop
until stopped" after clicking "Edit Sount Object" in something called the
shortcut menu.  Unfortunately, I cannot find anything of ...

Put text in template but only the text will print

Our company requires three fields centered on the title page - Title,
subtitle, and date. The title and subtitle I can do with the autolayout
feature that allows clicking into the field to fill it in, but I can't figure
out how to make a date field like that.

How do I insert images, one per slide, into a powerpoint presentation?

Does anyone know why the "copy colors from" function doesn't work for
charts that have been imported from Excel to PowerPoint?  I've opened
up my Excel when trying to make this change, but for some reason it
never has the names of the other workbooks I have open when trying to

I am trying to package a presentation to a CD-RW, although the E drive
registers that a cd is in the drive, it will not copy the files across.  It
is very important that the cd's (or any form of data storage device) i
distribute are re-writable as this will save a lot of time ...

I am using PowerPoint 2003 and am trying to insert scrolling text, like the
ones seen in film credits.  I have followed all the instructions in the help
menu but the following options do not appear, "apply to selected slides,"
and "credit."  Any suggestions?

Hi, I'm trying to enter "Slide 1 of 10" (similar to Word and XL and PP in
edit mode) in the master slide footer so when I add or delete slides I don't
have to manually change the slide count. Can someone provide the code and/or
a pointer to an overview of the object model to code ...

when I insert a vidoe file in the ppt the ppt acually does not save the video
in it, it simply adds a link to where the video is, the problem is when I
copy my presntation to a CD and even if I add the video file on the same CD,
the link is not updated, resulting that the video ...