Tried posing this question on some encryption groups with little luck.
I have designed several slideshows as part of a course presentation
that I alone have offered.
Now that I am heading in a different direction, former collegues would

Sorry for the delay in response.  At first the IT department thought the
newer version of PPT was conflicting with an older version of PPT - the DLLs
might have been causing problems - wrong...  Here are just a few of the
multitude of errors I've been having with PowerPoint 2003.

I'm using Office 2003 PowerPoint. My CEO wants to be able to switch from ppt
slide show mode to other files and then back to slide show and have the arrow
be set to visible without having to select it again. Any help would be
appreciated.

This is an odd one...
I've applied a notes master to a presentation, but oddly enough it
doesn't seem to effect all the slides.  Some of them follow the master,
but others are drastically resized and the layouts are completely

i want to lock the connectors between object but it appears this will only
happen with the connector at the center of the object side.   i would like to
show multiple independent locked connectors on a side of an object.

I have a powerpoint presentation up to 85 pages. When I hperlink a textbox on
a slide to my first slide, it workd fine. But when I tried to link it to some
of my other slides it doesnt work. In the "insert hyperlink" window, There
are slides on the left to choose from, slides 1,2 ...

When I try to insert a video clip into a Power Point 2002 presentation, I am
getting a message that says, "PowerPoint couldn't inser a movie from the
selected file. Either the file is non-standard, or Quicktime is not installed
propertly." What does that mean? Any suggestions on ...

I'm look to find out if anyone knows or has code to create either a Multiple
Response game or a Matching game (click and drag) or both, or even if that is
possible.

I have three hours to build a multi-color/section pyramid in ppt. Any clues?

Is there a way to make several object appear simulatenously?  I want to
enlarge part of a document from a document that I already put in power point.
An example of what I want to do is like on the new when they pull excerpt
from a document, or an enlarge part of a map showing ...

Here is a quick demo of using a WinZip self-extracting exe file to neatly
bundle a pps and a linked in audio file (in this case a recording of
Cavatina from The Deer Hunter .. recorded by guess who :-)
Obviously, you can use this approach to bundle together any number of linked

I confess I'm not much of a VBA programmer, so this could just be my
inexperience.
I'm trying to get an image of the screen when a PPT slideshow is running and
the user clicks on a command button.  

i am a new user of Powerpoint, and i know absoloutly nothing! i know the
basics, but i need to know more, i have watched the hyperlinks ppt course,
and i have an office assistant on hand but it didnt seem to do much. could
you offer anymore help or advise me on where to search or ...

Is there any way to change the autolayout dialog box to show slides that you
have created?

Could somebody please tell me how to loop the animations on the first 10
slides in a presentation and not loop the next slides. This will mean the
first 10 will cycle for any length of time before going into the rest of the
presentation.