Anyone ever put an avi film as the background on a powerpoint slide so you
can type over it?
Thanks in advance

i just want to write a simple macro which opens a designated folder on the
persons computer with a file picker dialog with a jpg filter or something and
then dumps that jpg into the background of the currently selected slide.  how
do i refer to the background of the slide to ...

Can anyone help me please.
I ahve the following Macro which I am trying to use to change a shap
fill colour to Green using the ActionSettings option.
Any help would be very much appreciated.

How do I email a photos in a Power Point presentation without it being a huge
file?Thank you.

I know NOTHING. I want, however, to write a macro in PowerPoint that can do
the following:
-Add a new slide in my presentation
-Select my slide

Hi, I have 147 slides done by a beginner, no unitformity or continuity. Looks
like first grade work. I need to start over and re-do them, would appreciate
suggestions on how to do this with the least amount of work.  
Any shortcuts to just starting from scratch?  

I sometimes change my mind about text I've originally inserted with bullets,
and try to change the line to a non-bulleted item.  However, if it takes more
that a single line, the second and all subsequent lines are indented.  I
can't figure out how to make multiple lines appear ...

Is it possible to create a presentation to run from a dvd player?
Any help gratefully accepted
Stephen

Using PP 2003 on Windows XP SP2, when I point ro an Action Button that is
set to call a specific slide in another PP presentation on a Mouse click, a
box appears that has text with the path, file name, and slide number. How
can I make this NOT happen.

I'm running Powerpoint (Office 2003) on an XP-SP2 machine. A few days ago,
Powerpoint started freezing every time I open it - irrespective of whether I
am opening an existing publication or starting a new one. (It had worked
perfectly until then, since I bought this computer in ...

I have figured out that the kinds of branching I want to do with custom
shows in a powerpoint cannot be exported successfully to HTML. So I was
thinking of putting the file on the webserver as a .pps file.
How well does this work? If several people want to view it at once, will it

In Presenter View I need to be able to read my notes easily from a bit of a
distance.  Currently, Notes seem to be fixed at 12 point with the option of
making it bold.  I would like it to be at least 14 point or larger.  How can
I do this?

I have just down loaded the student/teacher edition of office 2003 and I
can't find some of the clip art I had in my office 2000 clip art folder.  
Most of the clips that I can't find were downloaded from sites other than
microsoft and would be hard if not impossible to find again ...

How can I use a movie as a background and have text in front of the clip?

I prepared a PP 2003 presentation with custom animation for the pictures on
my slides.  I inserted a wav music file onto the slide.  When playing the
show, the music starts playing, the title of the slide comes on BUT THE
PICTURES I ANIMATED WILL NOT COME ON THE SLIDE.  I've been ...