I'm a newbie when it comes to ActiveX and PowerPoint.  I need to create
a presentation that when the presenter moves the mouse over a bullet
point, a text box appears with more detail.
1. How do I create the trigger that causes the text box to appear when

-what's the types of product of presentation software and word processing
software available in the market...?
-how much does it cost and its license constraints...?
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I am going thru "insert", "movies and sound", "movie from file" and trying to
insert a video that came free with my "Cutting Edge PowerPoint for Dummies"
book.  When I try to add the video to a slide, the "Object Action" selection
under the multimedia tab is grayed so that I ...

Is it possible for me to add live, streaming video onto a powerpoint
presentation from a news station website?

Subject says it all :)

I insert a .avi file into my powerpoint presentation and the video plays
without sound but it plays with sound in windows media player.

I have many PPTs made on a PC, each of which links to a file in
subfolders of the folder containing the PPT. All links are relative.
I copy the entire folder structure to a Mac and the links in SOME of
the PPTs break -- either 1) there is no link at all; or 2) link points

hi there Powepoint users!:
I want to copy a graph from Excel into Powerpoint. Now the copying itself is
no problem, but I want to have some control over the graph's length and width
when I paste it (i.e. I do not want to constantly adjust the size manually in

I'm creating a slide show for a wedding and would like to transition between
slides as pages turning in a book.  Can you advise how I would do that?

I need to create a powerpoint presentation on how to design my dream home

I am trying to put together a kiosk application for a small museum.  We have
several PPS files that I want the user to be able to select from a simple
menu system.
The control system is keyboard only (so no mouse-over function) - 3 keys in

stressed out w deadline of tomorrow
i saved the wrong powerpoint presentation (in XP)...dont  see how to recover
it.. I am not sure if autocover is turned on
would recovery software help?

I had seen in one PowerPoint presentation, that the line graph actually moves
on the slide. It looks as if an invisible hand is drawing the line.
Can someone tell me how to do that?
Thank You

I am using PP 2003 on Windows XP. When I run animations, some will cause the
display in slide show to freeze. Looking at task mgr, the cpu use is at
100%. The only way to recover is to end the task. These same pp files work
fine on other computers. Any ideas?

I am frustrated.  I have gotten product key from microsoft (emailed to me)
but my microsoft office won't except these as passwords!  I have gotten help
from gateway computers to do this, but they key(s) that microsoft gives me
are not working!