I have a need for a vb program that will replace an existing, broken
program we have here.  (No source code can be found.)
What this program seems to do is help folks select which ppt files to play
in sequence so as to appear as one continuous presentation in our lobby.  It

Is there any plug-in or such to allow someone with an earlier version of PPT
to play and see a PowerPoint Show created with PPT 2003?  I'd really like to
use some of the new animation effects but my client has PPT 2000 which
doesn't support some of the features I want to use.

A staff member created a PowerPoint presentation that has so many pictures it
is over 430 megs.  It loads too slowly even on a P4 2.8 GHz machine.  It will
never be able to be run successfully on a laptop at a remote site.  How can I
compress the photos or reduce their KB in ...

Hope you can help me with the following problem.
My powerpoint slide consists of 4 equal squares, which can initially be seen
together.  By clicking the mouse I want square one to apppear in the center
of the slide.  By clicking another time, the square should return to its

I built a ratehr large PowerPoint show with many animations, sounds,
transitions, etc.  I use the 'pack and go' feature to save it to a CD and
send to my collegues around the country.  However, may of them report the
show running 'choppy' or the sound timing being off, even ...

I'm running PowerPoint 2003 SP2 on an Inspirion XPS Gen2.  The problem I'm
having is that when you get to slides with 3-D shadowing (whether in edit or
slide show mode), the slide redraws itself repeatedly, some times endlessly.
I've searched the knowledge base and could not ...

I placed the Action Buttons on my initial slide and would now like to repeat
these on all the rest. How can I duplicate this automatically with out going
throught he process every time?

I am attempting to have continuous sound during a ppt show.
I have followed the help page to the "Play Sound" windoww
I have "Start palying from beginning"
and

The following script (adaped from a MS example runs fine in PowerPoint
2002 but fails in 2003 (error noted in code comment). Two questions:
1. Can anyone help me get this to work in 2003?
2. Is it possible to modify this script so it will work in all versions

My department upgraded from XP to 2003 a while ago. We have a lot of
powerpoint presentations we use and when my boss opens up an old Presentation
he created in Office XP, none of the video files work and he gets an error
message saying that the link for the video cannot be found ...

I am using PowerPoint 2004 on a Mac running OS 10.2.8.  Every time I try to
access the clip gallery, it crashes.  I get an "unable to access linked file
"^0" and then it sets up an error message ready to send to Microsoft.  It
suggests that I re-install the program.  I have done ...

Could someone help me, this code brings in a selected range from excel
into powerpoint as a picture, now I also need it to be linked
Rgds
Tyronne

Powerpoint keeps changing the fontsize when I add or delete text on a slide.
I would like this to stop, as I want to choose my fontsize manually, and just
have the text "overflow" over the page if it does not fit (so I will shorten
the text, but dont want to change the fontsize). ...

I recently purchased a dell monitor that allos me to workin Portrait
mode. Although powerpoint works great in portrait mode when i PREVIEW
the presnetation it automatically rotates back to landscape mode.  How
do I get it to stay in Portrait mode (I do not plan to use this

I misplaced diskette containing Step By Step Microsoft Powerpoint 97 practice
files.
Seeking help on how to get hold of them