I have created a VBA procedure in MS Access 2003 that creates a PowerPoint
PPT from data in MS Access.  However,  whenever a field contains more than
255 or 256 characters, it displays garbage characters.  The rest of the data
doesn't show.

I have added a macro but the Run command in Tools/Macro/Macros is
greyed out. If I try running the macro from the VBA Editor I get the
error message "The macros in this project are disabled etc" .. and the
mentions the host application?!

One of our users just got a new laptop with Office 2003. Now the AVIs in his
presentation no longer play, on his laptop or on anyone else's who has PP
2003. We all get "There is no device driver installed on your system" when
we try to play the AVIs in mplay32.exe, which is ...

I'm trying to find a way to change the font of the speakers notes in the
presenters view. The default is a little hard to read.

Just spent a couple of hours going through a 56 slide presentation
(PPT2003), cobbled together from various sources, trying to work out how it
could be 35Mb AFTER I had done "picture compression" ; eventually found an
innocent looking slide that was actually 15Mb plus 3 more at ...

I'm importing cells from an excel spreadsheet into a ppt presentation
All is fine except some of the gridlines, horizonally are thicker than the
others.
In the spreadsheet in formatting cells are the grid lines are fine.

How do you animate a line to move like a clock hand round a point?

I would like to have a slide in a show run VBA code when the slide appears.
The code will retunr a string, and the string needs to be shown on the
slide.
It would preferable if the string can be displayed in something taht can be

How do I change a link text color using PowerPoint?  

I am trying to do slides with multiple animations showing blood (and all the
components of blood) going through vessels.  As you can imagine, there are a
lot of crossing motion paths, and I am finding that it is not only hard for
me to keep them straight, but sometimes the ...

I manage a huge library of slides (>2000) for a pharma company. These slides
get put into hundreds of different presentations - just mixed in different
ways. For compliance reasons, whenever a slide is updated, it needs to be
updated in ALL presentations. I was hoping for a ...

When I close my presentation, the left-justified bullet alignment defaults to
centered when I reopen.  How can I keep the bullets left justified?

Is there a way to change the default settings on the preset animation
schemes? For ex: fade in one by one fades in everything under the primary
bullet and I would like each bullet to fade in separatly. I find it very time
consuming to do each slide individually using the custom ...

Our computer labs are trying to save money, we would like to set the default
for powerpoint to -
handouts and black and white
Can anyone help?

I need to be able to dim text when I click on it, but not in the set order
that's available with custom animation settings.  Is this available with
another feature, such as action settings?