I have been converting our talks on positive film slides by scanning to
digital and am using PowerPoint  as means of presentation.  I want to 'fade'
the slides in but when projected to a large screen they flicker badly - most
off putting.  Can anyone help please.

I create many slides for presentations. When I switch to a new slide during
the crreatioon, I must reset the font I want every time. There must be a way
to make this easier.

What does it mean to extract the contents of the zip to a folder? I am
looking at storyboarding a powerpoint with several complex animations.

Using Power Point 2003.  When I choose to print handouts with 6 slides per
page, is there a way to also have those slides numbered on the print out?
For example, in the normal view with the slides panel on the left visible,
the slides are displayed in numerical order with the ...

I made a PPT with fades, special effects, etc.
It plays fine pressing F5 on my computer.
I downloaded the PPT viewer from the MS site.
It views OK using the viewer on my computer.

What are the issues with copying a ppt slide from a ppt doc using one
version of ppt (say PPT Office 2003) to another version (say PPT Office
2000)?
What are the issues with copying linked versus embedded sound clips

i need this as soon as possible please is for state competition!!!

In the tool bar "WordArt" there is the option list of "Word Art Character
Spacing"
At the end of the list, there is an option called "kern character pairs"
could any one please explain what does this option do?

When I go to insert a picture from file in either ppt or Word, all I get is
an hour glass.  I go to Task Manager and it says powerpoint not responding.  
I can create and save new files, I just can't insert pictures.  This just
started happening last week.

I am generating a PowerPoint document from another Microsoft product, and I
am sending/writing text into PowerPoint, but I am having problem with the
text wrapping to the next line.
any suggestions?

Can I have moving visuals in the background of my slides?

Is it possible to show running clock on slides during presentation?
If yes, then please tell how?
Thanx in advance.

I want to save a presentation as another file format. But I do not
understand some PpSaveAsFileType constant. For example,
ppSaveAsHTMLv3
ppSaveAsHTMLDual

If anyone can help me, I'd be very appreciative!  
I am trying to set the address and screentips on hyperlinks from the
contents of an Excel Sheet.
in this case, wbXL is the Excel File.  That part works.

Can you lock fonts and text box sizes in a PowerPoint presentation? I would
like to distribute a template in which content developers can add content,
but cannot change the look of the text  (that is, the font choice or size) or
the size/position of the text boxes.