how can we programatically identify whether the powerpoint installed on
the machine is a trial version or not

When I copy a Powerpoint presentation onto a CD for my students, Powerpoint
refuses to accept it back, says it does not recognise it, even on the same
computer! In File, Permission, the check is 'Unrestricted access' but the
title of the presentation is always in square brackets, ...

I would like to use a kind of menu structure during a
Powerpoint.presentation.
Like webpages: showing a menu on the lefthand side, you can select a menu or
sub-menu, go into it, go into a deeper sub-menu and use a kind of 'previous'

the sound starts and stops each time.  
I'd like to get music to start automatically and end at the final slide 24.
Also, how can I get the sound icon "horn" to not show up on the slide.
the pain

I have some mpeg2 files I wish to play in Powerpoint. I have done it before
and I am sure in same format but when I import from "insert movie file" I
just get a black box and they dont play. Have also noticed that some of them
dont display as thumbnails in explorer either. They ...

It's still my countdown clock but it relates to the VB code and/or the
autoevents addin. I actually had it running and tested it with changing the
system date and all was well but now it doesn't work so well. The date in
TxtDate changes but the LblBody doesn't react to the date ...

How do I pass variables from a macro in one presentation to a macro in a
second presentation ? The PUBLIC declaration does not appear to work.

PowerPoint 2002 does not play some .avi files (when file is inserted I can
see the first image but when playing the frame is blank. Help! Vladimir,
Chester, UK

I've created a presentation which is having tables and graphs linked to
another excel sheet. When I work with it on my PC it works very well, when I
move the bothe files in one folder to another PC, I found out that the
presentation isn't updated een if I update the link manually ...

I have downloaded a Trial Version of PowerPoint2DVD from Wondershare.  I have
successfully burned my presentation to a DVD using NTSC setting which works
perfectly on my DVD player.  However it will not work correctly on other DVD
players.  I have used DVD-R and DVD+R of several ...

I have a presentation with 2 slides and I wish to play a .wav file of
some piano music, across both slides.
At the moment - when I press the enter key and move from the first to
the second slide it seems that I am getting 2 version of the music

My screen resolution is 1280 X 1024 . If try slide show in PowerPoint,
it leaves blank areas on top and bottom (38 pixels each side ),Is there
any way to show in Full screen (1280X1024)?( programmatically or
manually)..

Hi!
I scan a document to a computer, there are some worlds I would like to
change, could you show me how to edit them?  Thank you very much!
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I scan a chinese document to the computer, and I convert to text, so I can
edit it, but it came out incorrect charecters, I don't know how to read it,
please help me to solve this problem.  Thank you much!

I need some assistance on how I get my presentation burned to a DVD so that
my customers can watch this on their TV's?