Has anyone experienced a decrease in file size when a powerpoint 2003 file
running on 2000 is re-saved in powerpoint 2003 running on XP?

Powerpoint can't read the outline from .ppt. No text converter is installed
for this file type.
I'm getting this message when i try and open a ppt file, i can't figure it out

Thank you John, Glen and Sandy for your suggestions. I'm still not sure that
it has answered everything. Glen asked about my OS and PowerPoint versions
and it is as follows:
OS - Windowx XP Pro

i am trying to send a power point presentation that has a song attached to it
via email; however, when i open the presentation on any other computer
(besides the one it was created on), the presentation will play but the sound
will not. is there any way to make this successfully ...

I know that in previous versions of PowerPoint that you can't play video
while displaying text at the same time unless you purchase ANOTHER program
that embeds itself into PowerPoint.  Does anyone know if PowerPoint 2007 will
do this WITHOUT a 3rd party software solution?  Thanks ...

Hi
 I have saved a powerpoint presentation as .mht using powerpoint 2003. But
the slide show is very slow. The cpu usage goes to 100% and then comes back
to 8, 9. Thsi is happening on some machines. The machines have virtual memory

Hi I need help I am trying to animate a bar on a graph we want the bar to
start from the bottom up ( growing from 0-12....).  Thanks

I am thinking about purchasing a voice recognition software (Dragon Naturally
Speaking Professional, French).
Would it be possible to use VBA (I would have to learn to use it) so that my
students practice there speech ?

i used power point to animate a picture. Now I want to put it online. when i
preview it, the animation isn't moving. It is showing just a still picture.
How do I get it to move????
is there a way to just save the picture, and then put it in photobucket or

I have a PPT presentation stored in the hard drive which gave me no trouble
at all.  Recently however, when I open the presentation a box appears with
the message "Microsoft Powerpoint has encountered an error and needs to
close." PPT then closes restarts.  This happens either at ...

Does anyone know how to create new shapes in Powerpoint?
I'm particularly interested in creating shapes with "adjustement handle(s)"
Thanks in advance
Pedro

Sometimes the whole screen starts to blink and I can't move the images from
where they are, or just can do it in sort of a jerky way, so I'm not sure
where they'll end. It happens just sometimes, and not exactly when the pasted
images are very large or the slide is very full.

I'm trying to write my own FileSave-Dialog for several MS-Office-
Applications and succeeded in Word and Excel so far, now Powerpoint is
giving me headaches.
Here is my code

I'm trying to round specific corners of a rectangle (an image), namely the
top right and the bottom right corners. Using the built in autoshapes, I
wasn't able to do this (I could only get the two top and/or the two bottom
corners rounded). Normally, I'd rotate the autoshape to ...

I would like to show 2 slides on one screen at the same time...so as to
compare and contrast them for a class.