I set up a slide to use the typewriter animation to enter text on a slide.
What I now want to do is after the text appears, have a line drawn through it
like you would do to cross out an error. I am using PPT 2002.

Can anyone tell me how to create a slide that will allow animation of blocks
sliding in (the blocks will have text in them) as if building a brick wall
from the foundation upwards.
I've tried doing this with auto shapes but they wont animate.

I'm trying to make sort of a painting demo, where I'd like to have a series
of small boxes of different colors (swatches, if you will) along the bottom
of the slide, and the shape(s) making up the illustration of a house would
change color based on which swatch is clicked.

A colleague asked me if it is possible to insert DVD video into a PPT 03
presentation. I am thinking some kind of video conversion needs to happen but
am not sure. Any help much appreciated.
v/r

I am trying to use animation to show changes in a gant chart.  I want to have
boxes appear to move to reflect changes.  Example,  imagine three boxes that
are end to end.  I want to be able to have the third box move out with a new
box being inserted in between the second and ...

How can I remove background sound from pps file and save it as individual file?
please be noted that I can see no sound icon on slides.
DHO

I have a desktop pc, windowsXP home, MS Office XP, small Business. I am sure
that I had Powerpoint but now I can't find it anywhere on my computer. I have
the Dell disks for Office XP but don't know how to use them to reload
Powerpoint. I have used the Windows SEARCH function but ...

How can you view multiple comments from different slides all on one screen?  
If I have 100 slides and comments on each of them, is there a way to view
these in order 1-100 on the screen, where I can simply read them and make
changes or whatever without having to click on every ...

I'm making a painting demo type thing with Powerpoint, and wanted to be able
to change a shape or image (which indicates the side of the house) depending
on which of several other shapes (swatches) is clicked.  For instance, I
have 1 shape which looks like bricks (Rectangle 1), ...

I would really like to disable the virus scan. Takes up a lot of time.
I have Office 2003 and Norton Internet Security in WinXP. I have tried
regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\norton internet security\norton
antivirus\officeav.dll" but it fails. Get return code of 0x80070005.

9MB PPP
XP and PP 2000
A presentation has 21 slides and 79 pictures.
5 of the slides are repeats, having the same 5 overlapping pictures, each

I have been working on some PowerPoint animation that works like a
quiz.  A list box has possible answers, and depending on the answer
they choose, a textbox has a certain value and color to it.  I would
also like to animate the text box so it looks slick.  Here is the code

Although I am on office xp at home the place I am doing my advanced
ECDL presentaion course is 2000; I need to create and object e.g circle
in a square, group it and save it as a gif file. in XP you just right
click the object and go to "save pictue as" etc BUT in 2000 there is no

Sorry posted a few times but did not get any help. I am repeating my problem
which is, when I get an E-mail with   .PPS extension (Power Point slide
show)
slide show + audio, the slide show will see but no audio, when I forward the

PP 2002 Normal view has Outline and Slide tabs.
PP 2000 seems to have only the Outline view in Normal view.
Any way of seeing the mini slides down the side of the Normal view? I know
one can switch Slide Sorter view but that is inconvenient most times.