I would like to make an item pivot - like a pendulum

I suddenly find myself needing to display content on a series of 16:9 HDTV
units, but the computers I'm using to project don't support 16:9 resolutions.
At the default settings, my TVs are stretching the picture to fill the screen
(rectangular pixels).

How do I combine a song to a PowerPoint?

I turn on my computer and open a powerpoint presentation every morning. They
always open in a minimized, "restored down" window. I just want to save
myself that extra click and wait everytime. I just want it to open in a
maximised window.

Does anyone know how to insert an equation into powerpoint 2007 in any colour
other than black? (The equation editor 3.0 provided with powerpoint 2007 is
vastly inferior to the one included in Word 2007 yet equations made in Word
2007 and then pasted over loose lots of their ...

I.m not sure how to word this.  I'm using PP 2007 and I'm making slides for
my church and I would to make some of them permanent so that when I move them
to another file they stay the same. (picture & text)
Thank you,

Is it posible to get any type of powerpoint for free?

I'm using dualview. When my PP presentation loses focus, it stops. Is there
a free program to solve this problem? I want to be able to do other stuff
while the presentation is on show. (I found OfficeOne PowerShow but it's
paid).

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I have a text on a slide Calibri (body) 48pt. which is very long. It runs
more than double the length of the slide. Is it possible to animate this
text for it to appear as if it were to scrolling very slowly from the

I have a couple of questions.
1. What is the EXACT size a jpeg should be for a PowerPoint presentation
background, and
2. Is there a better way to do this? I don't want to apply a DESIGN TEMPLATE

I copied PP file from desktop to DVD, but laptop won't play sounds. Checked
and sound files are on DVD and show on hard drive file. Checked sound
settings in control panel and no mute selected. Why can't I hear the sound
files when the laptop runs the presentation? Also tried ...

I can not use Powerpoint pen on my slide, how to enable it?

When I am putting together an animation I want to see exactly where my last
movement has taken an object.I can click play to watch individual bits of the
animation but I want to find the exact position so I can decide on what I
want to do next.

my problem seems to be:
the target slide is T, and is linked T->R, T->S (text hyperlinks)
i also linked A->T B->T (text hyperlinks) (many other slides could be linked
to T)

I want to create a Map of the United States that can be color coded by sales
Territory and have a legend  with names